Popstar Feargal Sharkey has demanded action over Scotland’s sewage dumping crisis as we reveal 14,000 Olympic pools of filth spewed into our rivers in a year. The punk icon - now a pollution campaigner raising the alarm over filthy waterways in England - warned the situation could be even worse in Scotland.
The Teenage Kicks singer, 64, blasted the lack of data in Scotland, where just 4 per cent of storm drains are monitored - compared to nearly 90 per cent down south. It comes as we report today how in nearly half of all sewage spill incidents in 2021, no note was taken of the volume of waste discharged into our waters.
Sharkey said: “Scotland’s first problem is simply the sheer scale of the lack of monitoring. But from the few bits of data available… there is just as big a scale of sewage dumping going on in Scotland as there is in England and Wales.”
