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Dan Vevers

Sewage dumped in Scotland's rivers 14,000 times in 2022 - nearly 40 times a day

Sewage was dumped in Scottish waterways more than 14,000 times last year - a staggering rate of nearly 40 incidents a day.

Rocker-turned-pollution campaigner Feargal Sharkey said horrendous new figures for 2022 laid bare the “full scale of the horror and abuse of Scotland's rivers”.

The stats, newly-published by Scottish Water, reveal a shocking 47million cubic metres of waste was dumped in our waters last year - equal to nearly 19,000 Olympic swimming pools.

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