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Liz Truss allowed farmers to pollute England’s rivers after ‘slashing red tape’, say campaigners

Agricultural waste outstrips sewage as the main danger – and activists blame the ex-environment secretary’s cuts to farm inspections

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss failed to meet any water bosses over sewage dumping in two years in environment post

Exclusive: Likely next PM facing fresh questions over responsibility for sewage scandal after light-touch approach

The Independent UK

Chi Onwurah slams Government after data reveals hundreds of sewage dumps have polluted Newcastle's waterways

Data has revealed that a total of 540 sewage dumps were made in waterways across central Newcastle in 2021

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Local resident hits out at ‘putrid’ sewage outfalls turning Thames tributary brown

Sutton resident Amie Battams said she had seen ‘fatbergs the size of rugby balls’ floating through the River Wandle

Evening Standard

River-flow rates in England at lowest point since 2002, data shows

Exclusive: Experts warn drought could be start of three-year cycle with dire impacts on wildlife and environment

The Guardian - UK

Thames tributary runs brown after ‘sewage outfall’

A Thames tributary has become the latest to suffer from sewage outfalls following an apparent storm discharge.

Evening Standard

Hundreds of Nottinghamshire properties covered by new flood warning system

It will cover those at risk of flooding from Tottle Brook

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Britain’s sewage crisis: ‘I only swam for 20 minutes but that evening I began to feel nauseous and dizzy’

The pollution of the country’s waterways has reached critical levels — as swimmers complain of sickness and wildlife becomes affected, Claire Cohen investigates who’s to blame

Evening Standard

Liz Truss’s £235m cut to Environment Agency ‘doubled sewage discharge’

Raw sewage discharge doubled between 2016 and 2021, and Labour is blaming ‘efficiency savings’ by Tory leadership front runner

The Independent UK

Greater Manchester avoids drought but officials warn of 'prolonged dry weather' as country faces mass water supply issues

Only Cumbria and Lancashire are said by the Environment Agency to have normal water resources

Manchester Evening News

Liz Truss branded sewage in rivers 'disgraceful' in 2014 speech despite budget cuts

The Tory leadership frontrunner has come under firefor overseeing cuts to the Environment Agency budget, after which raw sewage discharges have risen

Daily Mirror

‘It stinks’: Windermere plagued by blue-green algae as ‘toxic as cobra venom’

Campaigners accused of ‘scaremongering’ despite tests of algal bloom in lake exceeding WHO guidelines

The Guardian - UK

Government urged to 'cut the crap' as 'sewage scandal' threatens Bank Holiday weekend

Beaches across the South of England were closed last weekend as sewage was pumped along the coast. A pipe burst along the River Ray causing a sewage leak that killed off fish stocks

Daily Mirror

The Guardian view on England’s sewage crisis: a Tory stink

Editorial: As environment secretary, Liz Truss made cuts that undermined regulation. Now coastal communities are suffering

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Sewage leak kills thousands of fish in Thames tributary after pipe bursts

The burst pipe in Swindon has led to a near-total wipeout of fish populations in the stretch of river. A similar leak caused fish to be killed in the same area in 2003.

The Guardian - UK

Roll up, roll up and meet the watery overlords pumping sewage on to Britain’s shores this summer

Why focus just on the politicians where there are plenty of CEOs out there with excrement on their hands, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK

Water companies in England ‘will take 2,000 years to replace pipe network’

Leaked data shows water companies are replacing 0.05% of England’s crumbling pipe network a year

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Environment Agency says it's taking North Sea sewage issue seriously amid 'don't swim' warnings

There are don't swim warnings for beaches in Northumberland, North Tyneside and South Shields due to storm sewage being pumped into the North Sea

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Daily Mirror

Liz Truss accused of having 'sewage on her hands' as discharge 'doubled' after budget cuts

The Tory leadership frontrunner presided over efforts to slash £235m from the Environment Agency's budget when she was at Defra

Zenger

Potentially Deadly E.Coli Bacteria Found In UK River

The tests used the recognized Aquagenx testing method for E.coli.

The Independent UK

Government ‘has head in the sand’ over sewage pumped on to UK’s beaches, says Labour

No 10 says it is duty of water firms to protect customers

The Independent UK

Liz Truss’s £235m cut to Environment Agency ‘doubled sewage discharge’ – Labour

Raw sewage discharge more than doubled from 14.7 per overflow in 2016 to 29.3 in 2021.

The Guardian - UK

Fears over English shellfish as untreated waste dumped in water

Untreated human waste dumped in waters containing shellfish 29,000 times last year, Environment Agency data shows

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss ‘has sewage on her hands’ over Environment Agency cuts

Exclusive: Truss oversaw cut in funds to tackle water pollution, since when raw sewage discharge has risen

Daily Mirror

Exactly how MPs voted on dumping sewage into UK seas and rivers – fact-checked

Campaigners say 265 Tory MPs betrayed the environment in an October 2021 Commons vote. But the MPs said overall they're tightening the law, and the plan they rejected wasn't practical. Here's the argument explained

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