An oyster farmer who runs a 300-year-old family firm says sewage dumps by water firms could kill his business overnight.
Tom Haward, who is the eighth generation of his family to farm oysters off Mersea Island in Essex, is joining a legal challenge against the government over its failure to tackle human waste pouring into our rivers.
Over 1,600 storm overflow pipes near supposedly protected waters spat out untreated sewage 41,068 times last year, for a total of 263,654 hours. The areas affected averaged a whopping 48 spills each in just a year.
