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Rosee Woodland

"Someone is going to die" - shocking warning about river pollution as wild swimming season starts

Swimmers at Warleigh Weir near Bath, UK.

"I am not exaggerating when I say someone is going to die". That's the message a leading pollution campaigner delivered to lawmakers examining the dire state of rivers in the UK.

After a year in which rowers in the world-famous Oxford and Cambridge boat race become sick from e.coli, and Lake Windermere was deluged with raw sewage, pressure groups are not mincing their words – they say change is needed now.

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