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.

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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.

Contact Dirty Water

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

Sign up to the Dirty Water Mailing List here Sign up to the Dirty Water 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 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

• Deep Water Mattermost Channel
• Deep Water Telegram Channel

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)

• 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

• 22 Nov 2021 UK legal group warns of information blackout on sewage discharges

• 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

• 27 Aug 2022 Liz Truss allowed farmers to pollute England’s rivers after ‘slashing red tape’, say campaigners

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 9 Nov 2022 Environment Agency Prosecutions 6% of the Level they were a Decade Ago

• 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

• 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

• Water company shareholders will need to help vulnerable customers bear the cost of living squeeze: Ofwat 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

• Contained in this Environment Plan is a promise to upgrade 160 wastewater treatment plans by 2027 (There are 7,078 sewage treatment works in England & Wales)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

• Halifax MP writes to Yorkshire Water about appalling pollution of River Calder

Videos

• What Makes Up Flood Water?

• Rivercide

• BBC Documentary on Pollutants in Welsh Rivers

Organisations

• Angling Trust

• Fish Legal 'set up to protect all inland and coastal waters in the United Kingdom from pollution and other environmental damage'

• River Action UK

• Surfers Against Sewage

• 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

• Water Magazine (a freely distributed monthly publication reporting on the UK’s municipal and industrial water)

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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