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.