We pay water companies to process our waste water safely, but for years these private entities have put profit over responsibility, dumping raw, untreated sewage into rivers up and down the country. The Government’s Sewage Discharge Reduction Plan falls dangerously short of what’s required to cut the crap, giving companies free reign to go on polluting until 2050.

In 2021 alone, raw sewage was dumped (mostly illegally) into our rivers for more than 3 million hours, causing major damage to fragile ecosystems, fish habitats, and precious wild places.