The market town of Fairford, nestling in the Cotswold hills, is perhaps best known for its church, which has the only complete set of mediaeval stained glass windows in England. But thanks to a more modern phenomenon, an interactive digital map produced by Thames Water, the Gloucestershire town, with itsContinue Reading
Large numbers of businesses in eThekwini on South Africa’s eastern seaboard – which includes the port city of Durban – rely heavily on tourism. It’s a popular holiday destination, only six hours by road from Johannesburg. Millions of people living inland head to the warm coastline over the country’s extendedContinue Reading
Existing sewage treatment plants in Dhaka treat only 30% of all sewage waste. Emerging pollutants such as antibiotics, microplastics, detergents, toothpastes, shampoos and lotion are found in Dhaka’s urban rivers and lakes. Microplastics are also found in fish, snails, crabs and sediments of the Buriganga River in Dhaka. City authoritiesContinue Reading
Water companies have been releasing sewage on to beaches and in rivers even when it is not raining, according to a report from Surfers Against Sewage. Sewage spills are only supposed to happen under exceptional circumstances; when it is raining so heavily that the system cannot cope with the amountContinue Reading
The sewage overflowing from a manhole in residential Azalea Park has settled into a predictable pattern since Ian caused widespread damage to sewers. By day, it’s a babbling brook. By evening, as cooking, showering and washing picks up, a flow of another sort erupts. “It’s a geyser,” said Larry Kidd,Continue Reading
The Environment Agency knew raw sewage was being illegally dumped into English rivers from wastewater treatment works a decade ago, a leaked report shows. However, the agency’s chair told MPs in May that the practice had only recently come to light. The Environment Agency’s 2012 inspection report for the north-westContinue Reading
States are continuing to allow sewage sludge to be spread on cropland as fertilizer and in some cases increasing the amount spread, even as the PFAS-tainted substance has ruined farmers’ livelihoods, poisoned water supplies, contaminated food and put the public’s health at risk. Michigan and Maine are the only twoContinue Reading
It has become a grim but necessary part of the routine for sea swimmers who splash out into Falmouth Bay from Gyllyngvase and Swanpool beaches, two sandy stretches of Cornish coast separated by a brambly headland at high tide and sparkling rock pools at low. They pack costumes, goggles, towels,Continue Reading
The Tory leadership frontrunner, Liz Truss, was responsible for cutting millions of pounds of funding earmarked for tackling water pollution during her time as environment secretary, the Guardian can reveal. Truss, who was in charge at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) between 2014 and 2016, oversawContinue Reading
In October 2021, 265 MPs rejected an attempt to crackdown on sewage discharge with ministers arguing it would have cost up to £660 billion For several years environment campaigners have been working to stop water companies from being allowed to release sewage into the UK’s oceans. In October 2021, 265Continue Reading
