Six of the worst polluted rivers in the UK are in Wales. In just one year England and Wales’ waterways had sewage pumped into them for at least 3.4m hours, according to recent figures. Data from 2021 has revealed the horrifying extent to which rivers, canals, the sea, and other bodies have been polluted by water companies.
It has also highlighted the most polluted local rivers across England and Wales in a list of the worst where just one waterway had sewage pumped into it on over 2,500 separate occasions. Numbers from the Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales – crunched by Top of the Poops – has also revealed the water companies most often found spilling sewage into the country’s water.
The River Severn, which runs between England and Wales, was the most polluted river and had seen 28,741 hours of sewage pumped into it on 2,656 occasions by Severn Trent Water. The rivers in Wales included in the list are the River Teifi, River Usk, River Wye, River Tawe, Menai Strait, and River Taf.
