Worries about the water quality for Paris 2024 events in the River Seine follow other environmental sport scandals in western Europe. Can triathlon, marathon swimming and rowing continue in open waters?
The company’s finances are almost as much of a mess as the waters it has been relentlessly polluting for years. Since 2020, the company has pumped at least 72 billion litres of sewage into the River Thames that runs through London, equating to 29,000 Olympic swimming pools.
Water bosses are investigating after Sue and Joe Carroll raised concerns their pet Cleo contracted E.coli when drinking the tainted water in Barry, south Wales.
Across the Cotswolds, whose honey-hued limestone cottages attract 35 million tourists a year, communities have been blighted by sewage spills, many lasting for months.