Good morning. Many people, perhaps including you, are gearing up for a long bank holiday weekend somewhere picturesque – maybe at a seaside town or by a nice river in the countryside. The normal stresses of going away aside, there is one other thing that everyone should be looking out for if they plan on going swimming or even paddling in the water: poo.
The government and water companies have faced mounting pressure over the volume of untreated sewage being dumped daily into Britain’s rivers and oceans. The media and the public alike have been causing a stink about the waste that has been thrown into the country’s waterways, seemingly with impunity, for years.
