Dirty Water Campaign
Building an understanding of how extreme weather events directly affect our waterways and pollution levels. Taking direct action to demand clean water.
Wave 5
📆 Nov 2023 - ongoing
Join us in WAVE 5 which is rolling in from Nov 2023 until 2024. You can use the options in the Action Pack at any time or for your Saturday end-of-the-month local group actions
Select Wave 5 on the Landing Page which will take you the Action Pack for Wave 5.
Quick linkLinks to the printable leaflets, posters, stickers etc
Wave 4
📆 Fri 4 – Sun 6 August
This time we’re taking the campaign to local bathing spots! We’ll reinforce outreach with flyers and posters giving pubic health information, warning signs, brown flags and Dirty Water banner drops.
💧Join our Telegram channels:
👁 Sign up to #dirtywater news
Contact Dirty Water
- Using their Mattermost Reception channel here
- Email: dirtywatercampaign@proton.me
The Dirty Water Landing Page links to all the Waves of actions and has all the information you need to take part in each Wave.
Dirty Water Waves 1-3 Action Packs
Wave 3 Ripple 1 took place at The Big One 21st-24th April
See the Dirty Water Broadcast on Telegram for info.
Wave 3 Ripple 2 focused on the Local Elections in early May.
For easy access to take part, this is the #VoteCleanWater Action Pack with a separate link to the A3 posters for commercial printing
Contact Dirty Water
Using their Mattermost Reception channel here or email: dirtywatercampaign@proton.me
Take Action
Sign up to the Dirty Water Mailing List here Sign up to the Dirty Water Telegram chat here
Digital Rebellion Dirty Water Wave 2
Take action from your own armchair here
- Sign up to the Digital Rebellion mailing list here
- Sign up to the Digital Rebellion Telegram chat here
Resources
Environmental Information and Water Companies 2015
23 June 2021 Oral evidence: Water Quality in Rivers, Environmental audit committee
18 July 2013 letter from Richard Benyon, Minister for Natural Environment and Fisheries
Government Implementation Plan for the Chalkstream Strategy 25.11.22
Deep Water Mattermost Channel Deep Water Telegram Channel
Lots of sewage news and info here on the BBC:
Maps
Environment Agency Water Basin Catchment Areas
EDM Map | Storm discharge data | River health | Thames Water (in real-time)
Raw sewage in our rivers | The Rivers Trust monitor sewage in your local area: real-time data map
Map shows raw sewage emptied into Worcestershire rivers | Worcester News
Articles (in date order/newest at the bottom)
11 March 2021 Hundreds of sewage leaks detected thanks to AI
31 March 2021 water firms discharged raw sewage into english waters 400000 times last year
7 Sept 2021 Sewage discharge rules eased over fears of chemical shortage
25 Oct 2021 BBC: Tory MPs defend votes after uproar over sewage proposals
22 Nov 2021 UK legal group warns of information blackout on sewage discharges
15 Feb 2022 Mirror article: Fat cat water bosses take home £15m as raw sewage rockets
13 May 2022 Sewage dumps into English rivers widespread, criminal inquiry suspects
25 Aug 2022 UK sewage turning Channel and North Sea into dumping ground, say French MEPs
River pollution goes unchecked as testing in England falls to 10-year low 2 Sept 2022
14 Sept 2022 ‘We are not going away’: the volunteers fighting back against England’s polluted rivers
1 Oct 2022 Environment Agency knew sewage was being dumped into rivers years ago, leak reveals
3 Oct 2022 Water companies forced to cut £150m from customers bills
Protesters to take to beaches over sewage discharges into English seas 7 Oct 2022
‘Hot air’: plans to crack down on UK water polluters dismissed as toothless 15 Oct 2022
River pollution: New phosphate rules hit thousands of planned new homes 24 October 2022
Massive sewage spill filmed at St Agnes beach in Cornwall 30 Oct 2022
9 Nov 2022 Environment Agency Prosecutions 6% of the Level they were a Decade Ago
Water companies dumping sewage during dry weather, SAS report finds 24 Nov 2022
BBC: Wild swimmers are getting sick from sewage, campaigners say 24 Nov 2022
Water chiefs blame UK government for failure to stop sewage pollution 26 Nov 2022
Government to weaken water pollution goals in ‘attack on nature 9 Dec 2022
Target date for cleaning up waterways in England is moved back by 36 years 22 Dec 2022
6 Jan Bloomberg Thams Water Sewage Maps shows pollution in London
16 Jan Moody Ratings Agency downgrades outlook for UK Water Companies
Sarah Jackson: British windsurfer says south coast like 'surfing in sewage everyday 27 Jan 2023
Sewage Overspills result from lack of infrastructure Imperial College 30 Jan 2023
Impending death of the River Wye 30 Jan 2023
Water firms in England urged to upgrade sewage works for new homes 31st Jan 2023
Thames Water: Oxford City Council calls for end to water privatisation
'I do give a shit about water pollution' Therese Coffey 1st Feb 2023
Kent: Sewage pours onto street 1st Feb 2023
Water company prosecutions fall in England despite thousands of pollution warnings 1st Feb 2023
Water bills to increase by most in almost 20 years from April 1st Feb 2023
Water firms to lose public funds unless they pledge to stop UK sewage spills 1 Feb 2023
10 Mar 2023 Campaigners ask why bathing area applications are rejected?
Videos
BBC Documentary on Pollutants in Welsh Rivers
Organisations
Take action | The Rivers Trust
UN Water Conference 2023 | Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Get involved with the UK’s largest and most comprehensive water quality testing programme
Useful Contacts
Deep Water: Water and Sewage companies and Telegram links - Google Docs
Jenni Russell on Twitter
Columnist, The Times; contributing writer, the New York Times; book reviewer, the Sunday Times. Winner of the Orwell Prize for political journalism 2011.
“Please read; the most important piece I've written. Mass poisoning has suddenly killed off most sea life for 30 miles by the Tees. The govt claims it's natural; ind scientists warn it's [hu]manmade. The govt is desperate not to inquire too deeply as its freeport policy is at stake.” Read here
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