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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.



Dirty Water Action Pack

The pack covers the Waves of actions starting on 28th January and has all the information you need to take part in each Wave.

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Using their Mattermost Reception channel here or email: dirtywatercampaign@protonmail.com

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Resources

Environmental Information and Water Companies 2015

Government Report on sewage in water by Prof. Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England, Jonson Cox, Ofwat chair and Emma Howard Boyd, Environment Agency chair. Published 27 June 2022

Government Implementation Plan for the Chalkstream Strategy 25.11.22

Maps

Environment Agency Water Basin Catchment Areas

SAS Safer Rivers and Seas Map

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)

Environment Agency knew sewage was being dumped into rivers years ago, leak reveals 1 Oct 2022

Water companies forced to cut £150m from customers bills 3rd Oct 2022

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](River pollution: New phosphate rules hit thousands of planned new homes - BBC News 24 Oct 22)

This article gives a good account of the enormous impact of dairy farms on rivers in Devon 25 Oct 2022

Massive sewage spill filmed at St Agnes beach in Cornwall 30 Oct 2022

MPs who voted for sewage: Full list of MPs who voted to continue | Politics | News | Express.co.uk Oct 27, 2021

Ministers have no idea how many beaches in England shut due to sewage | Pollution | The Guardian 6 Nov 2022

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria found in UK rivers close to factory farms | Th) e Independent 22 Nov 2022

Swimming in superbugs: MRSA and E coli found in British rivers — The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (en-GB) (thebureauinvestigates.com) November 22 2022

Water companies dumping sewage during dry weather, SAS report finds 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

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

Videos

What Makes Up Flood Water?

Organisations

Surfers Against Sewage

Take action | The Rivers Trust

UN Water Conference 2023 | Department of Economic and Social Affairs

Angling Trust

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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