Information Resources | Reports, Maps, Data & More

Maps

Please be aware that data catchment and sharing is still evolving. We have been made aware of specific sites, including some which have resulted in death, from contaminated flood water. If you are aware of sites which are missing from this data, please get in touch with us, so we can pass your story onto whomever is working on that issue.

• Comprehensive, Interactive Pollution Map | Watershed Investigations
• Evolving PFAS (Forever Chemicals) Pollution Map of Europe | Forever Pollution Project
• Water Basin Catchment Areas | Environment Agency
• Safer Rivers and Seas Map | Surfers Against Sewage
• 2024 Report on the State of UK Rivers | The Rivers Trust
• Live sewage pollution data | Surfers Against Sewage (SAS)
• Surfers Against Sewage 2023 Water Quality Reports NB SAS produce reports for each of the nations; check the drop down menu for where you are.
• Raw Sewage in Our Rivers. Monitor sewage in your local area | The Rivers Trust
• Event Duration Monitoring (EDM) Map. Storm discharge data in real-time | Thames Water
• Developments of National Significance in Wales | Council for the Protection of Rural Wales (CPRW)
• Flood Risks in Wales | Natural Resources Wales (NRW)
• Map of Historic Landfills in England | Dr. James H. Brand
• Historic Mining Risk Sites, Wales | Coal Authority
• Hereford,Shropshire & Powys Intensive Poultry units | Council for the Protection of Rural Wales (CPRW)
• Top of the Poops Easy to view sewage information; impactful imaging
• Most polluted rivers in England 2023. Find your local river
• The Forever Pollution Project – Journalists tracking PFAS across Europe
  

Generic Resources

Background Sources of Information for Outreach, Community Assemblies, Campaigns:

• XR's Position on Extreme flooding 2024 January 2024 blog helping rebels Tell the Truth. Further resource links below the article

• Support Pollution Watch campaign to register leachate into watercourses

• 'Dead shellfish littering our beaches tell you a lot about safety and secrecy in Britain’ George Monbiot article in the Guardian

• See how water company leakages are only slowly fixed An “urgent and significant reduction of the amount of drinking water wasted every day”

• Brown Flag Awards

• Guardian article on eradicating forever chemicals in the home

Videos

• What Makes Up Flood Water? (Youtube 12 mins)

• Rivercide (Youtube 56 mins)
  

• Rivers Trust State of our Rivers (Youtube 2 mins)
  There is a link below the video to download for the written report.

• Joe Lycett vs Sewage Dark humour, but factsy video (Youtube 50 mins)

• The Water Pollution Cover-Up BBC iPlayer Panorama (30 minutes); AVAILABLE UNTIL NOVEMBER 2024 ONLY

• Where Does Our Rubbish Go (Youtube 30 mins)

• Stop The Stink: Walleys Quarry, Newcastle Under Lyne (Youtube 30 mins)
  

Podcasts

• Impact of Pollution includes impacts on the body 2 part BBC podcast series
• Inside Science: Forever Chemicals 30 minute BBC podcast
• Buried 10 part podcast. The case of illegal toxic landfill in Ireland.
  

Government Reports and Information

• House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee heard evidence on the Water Quality in Rivers

• House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee Report on Environmental Sustainability of the Ministry of Defence

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

• DEFRA 25 Year Plan on Water Use

• DEFRA 25 Year Environment Plan. Annual Progress Report 2023

• Government Implementation Plan for the Chalkstream Strategy 25/11/22

• DEFRA statement Response to Paul Whitehouse's 'Our Troubled Waters' aired on BBC2, 5/3/23

• UN Water Conference 2023 | Department of Economic and Social Affairs

• Flooding and Health: an overview, UK Health Security Agency

• Hansard: ‘Orphan Sites’ Hazardous waste sites

• Hansard: Waste Industry - Criminality & Regulation

• The National Archives Official historic records not subject to secrecy ‘D’ Notices

• House of Lords Library. Sewage Pollution in England's Waters

• Remember too that sewage is only one among other contaminants that pose a risk to your family's health. Check this government guidance on swimming outdoors. Beware, however, this says nothing of chemical pollution, which could be particularly risky if a beach borders a historic landfill or industrial sites.

• Exposure and Adverse Effects of Chemicals on Wildlife in the Environment
  

Organisations and Allies

We will be making a spreadsheet of possible contacts available to view, make a copy of and add your local contacts to, so they can be shared with rebels coming on board and stepping into Dirty Water actions, e.g. outreach events, ceremonies, or assembly organisation. More about this in time, but meantime, here's the current state of play with our Restore Nature Now supporters. Aside from the Restore Nature Now supporting organisations, you will have your own local links, be they allies, or connections with regulatory bodies and their officers, water company employees and board members and more. We want you to bring us your contacts, to help the movement grow our campaigning power for the future. Check in with the Dirty Water Campaign to find out more about building XR's connections with influencers from the grassroots to suited power brokers and corporate players.

Celebrity Connections. Who Are You Following and Engaging With?

• Feargal Sharkey on Twitter: For all the latest information about what the water companies and the UK government are doing about our waterways and seas.
• Chris Packham on Twitter or Bluesky
• Michael Sheen on Twitter
• Iolo Williams on Twitter For news and useful information around Cymru Wales from the nation's wildlife and conservation hero
  

Want to Organise Locally?

• Find Out Who Owns Your Water Supply
• Deep Water: Water and Sewage companies and Telegram links