Water Quality
UK Ministers have been making plans to remove the EU’s water framework directive from legally binding targets, which legislates to clean up dirty rivers and seas from agricultural, chemical and sewage pollution…
Quality Control (or lack of it).
Risks from Polluted Rivers.  The UK is consistently ranked as one of the worst countries in Europe for water quality, over three quarters of our rivers fail to meet required health standards and face multiple threats…
Water Companies.
Customer bills make up at least 96% of water company revenue, according to Guardian analysis of company accounts for 2023…
Pollution.
Raw sewage discharged into English rivers 399,864 in 2022 the equivalent of 1,091 times every day. Untreated sewage and rainwater should only be released into rivers and coastal waters via storm overflow pipes in extreme weather…..