Information Resources: Reports, Maps, Data & More

Maps

• Water Basin Catchment Areas | Environment Agency
• Safer Rivers and Seas Map | Surfers Against Sewage
• Surfers Against Sewage live sewage pollution data
• 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
• Historic Landfills in England
• Historic Landfill Sites. England & Wales
• 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

Generic Resources

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

Most polluted rivers in England 2023. Find your local river:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/mar/27/englands-sewage-crisis-how-polluted-is-your-local-river-and-which-regions-are-worst-hit

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

An “urgent and significant reduction of the amount of drinking water wasted every day” Here is a link to the fact that water company leakages are only slowly fixed: resources/E8/https://oifdata.defra.gov.uk/themes/natural-

Videos

• What Makes Up Flood Water?

• Rivercide
  

• Rivers Trust State of our Rivers Check the link below the video for the written report to download

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

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

• Britain's Toxic Secrets (30 mins)

• Where Does Our Rubbish Go 30 minute video

• Stop The Stink: Walleys Quarry, Newcastle Under Lyne 30 min video

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

• 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

• 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

• 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 egLibrary. Sewage Pollution in England's Waters

Organisations

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, outreach and assembly organisation. More about this in time for the Restore Nature Now natoinal event 22nd June. Meantime, here's the current state of play with our Restore Nature Now supporters

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.
• Iolo Williams on Twitter For news and useful information around Cymru Wales from the nation's wildlife and conservation hero
• Chris Packham on Twitter

Useful XR Contacts

Deep Water: Water and Sewage companies and Telegram links - Google Docs (May be out of date. Nudge us to get an update via Telegram or email!)