What kind of pond creature do you have to be to wake up on a hot day and think to yourself “guess I’ll take a dip in the Thames today”
Testing water quality is not only a health measure but also a measure of the health of local and central Gov’t.
>Thames Water released untreated sewage into the rivers around Oxford for 5,600 hours in 2021 and given our results from citizen science testing last year.
Why not just say ‘most of the time’, that’s nearly 2 out of every 3 days or even just say
‘there were *some* days in 2021 that Thames water did not dump sewage in the river.’
United Utilities have been dumping sewerage into upstream tributaries from Windermere making it unswimmable.
Holy shit! It is affecting London. Time for action
The only solution to this problem is to stop testing now, and abolish all laws on water standards.
Remember what the putty-faced pork worrier David Cameron said, folks : “We’ll be the greenest government, ever!”
I have been swimming in the sea at Thorpe Bay (Thames Estuary) for 40 years, I won’t go in anymore because of visible signs of sewerage. The smell when the tide is out is disgusting. I guess that’s what happens when you are the only country in the world that decided to privatise water. Didn’t Jeremy Corbyn want to renationalise?
The harsh reality: Britain is now too poor to pay to have clean rivers and beaches.
The biggest surprise here is that any time in the last century the Thames has been considered safe for bathing.
ok? i go swimming in the thames every year up river and its filled with people and is a great place to swim. idk anything about the “only official bathing spot”… its a river.
I say it time and time again to the “it’s a river of course you can swim in it” people – our rivers are in an atrocious state and should not be swam in (unless you’re closer to the source).
If you saw the state of our sewer systems and the number of unmapped outfalls discharging into our rivers you wouldn’t put your feet in them. That’s without even going into the polluted runoff from agricultural land.
Swimming in them may as well be asking for disease.
Who would voluntarily go into the Thames, isn’t it common knowledge its full of shit?
It’s worrying how quickly the UK is approaching peak stupid. We’re poisoning the water, the resource we depend upon most, because looking after it properly is bad for profits.
They run swimming events at Royal Victoria dock frequently. Now I’m wondering.
Terrible. Nowhere for people to go now. Trapped in all all areas of life
It is absolutely outrageous that we dump raw sewerage into our rivers and seas. As one of the world’s largest economies it is something that we should have outlawed and invested in measures to resolve long ago.
How long until the sewage in the Thames produces such a stink around Westminster that they have to do something about it? Now where have we heard that story before. We do go round in circles sometimes.
The EA is criminally underfunded, they don’t have the staff nor the equipment they need to carry out their jobs effectively. This IMO is by design, the government want the EPA to be underfunded so the water companies can profit. The water companies have failed to provide investment to our infrastructure instead they pump their profits to shareholders and executives. We are being robbed blind while our natural environments get destroyed for the pursuit of profit.
We took are freedom back, and liberated from unelected bureaucrats in Brussels, dumped shit all over are country.
God save the King.
Slow clap for Brexiters and the centrists who enabled it.
God I just don’t care, send it all to Ukraine. NOW.
I’ve swam in the river at East Molsey and near Richmond Bridge, and while I myself haven’t been ill, I know someone who got dysentery from it. So this is surely at least somewhat true.. our beautiful river is no longer swimmable 🙁
I don’t trust any company or government to do the right thing and would never swim in a river in a country populated by dozens of millions of people.
I’ve smelled sewage running into the Thames from Home Park.
Who on earth ever thought Thames is good for swimming???
I wouldn’t swim in the Thames anywhere downstream of New Bridge in Oxfordshire, where the River Windrush joins it.
The Windrush is a small river but absolutely chock full of sewage for the Witney sewage works who constantly discharge into it.
Upstream from there is questionable, downstream is a write off for me.
Not surprised, I live upstream near a Thames Water processing facility. Their outflow pipe smells horrific almost every day.
Illegal discharge of untreated sewage while charging full price to treat sewage is threatening to kill Lake Windermere, just as another example.
There is a link in the description of this video to a fundraiser to properly gather all needed data to hopefully effect change. I think they already exceeded their goal, but with the way things are getting more expensive, any further contribution can only help them advance their campaign to enforce or perhaps even tighten existing sewage regulations.
In a past life I worked in Sewage Treatment, and what I can say from my own experience is that there are lots of systems in place to make sure discharge of raw sewage is an absolute last resort. I can also say that these systems must not be being used, everywhere. It’s atrocious, and I have no idea how the bosses are sleeping at night.
Imagine if a peasants like you or me discharge their sewage in the river. Can you guess what will happen? We will wind up paying huge penalty or spend some time in prison.
Thames Water and their bosses? Don’t hold your breath, nothing will happen to them.
> 99% of English bathing sites meet required water quality standards
New statistics show the number of designated bathing waters meeting strict quality standards is the highest since 2015
Another Brexit win, now we can dump sewage into our rivers again and nobody can stop us.
Thames water plans to halt raw sewage spills into the Thames by 2030. Britain lead the world in recognising the danger of sewage when John Snow identified faecal contaminated water as the source of cholera in 1854. That finding lead to one of the most significant developments of the Victorian era sewage management. Quick as a flash, Thames Water is now taking this finding on board a mere 168 years later and promising they’re going to stop pouring shit into rivers, “sometime fairly soon”. Well, we’ve got to think of the directors bonuses haven’t we, cant expect things to happen overnight.
Just in case anyone doesn’t recall who had that absolutely wizard idea of leaving water supply and management to the private sector, it was Margaret Thatcher.
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What kind of pond creature do you have to be to wake up on a hot day and think to yourself “guess I’ll take a dip in the Thames today”
Testing water quality is not only a health measure but also a measure of the health of local and central Gov’t.
>Thames Water released untreated sewage into the rivers around Oxford for 5,600 hours in 2021 and given our results from citizen science testing last year.
Why not just say ‘most of the time’, that’s nearly 2 out of every 3 days or even just say
‘there were *some* days in 2021 that Thames water did not dump sewage in the river.’
United Utilities have been dumping sewerage into upstream tributaries from Windermere making it unswimmable.
Holy shit! It is affecting London. Time for action
The only solution to this problem is to stop testing now, and abolish all laws on water standards.
Remember what the putty-faced pork worrier David Cameron said, folks : “We’ll be the greenest government, ever!”
I have been swimming in the sea at Thorpe Bay (Thames Estuary) for 40 years, I won’t go in anymore because of visible signs of sewerage. The smell when the tide is out is disgusting. I guess that’s what happens when you are the only country in the world that decided to privatise water. Didn’t Jeremy Corbyn want to renationalise?
The harsh reality: Britain is now too poor to pay to have clean rivers and beaches.
The biggest surprise here is that any time in the last century the Thames has been considered safe for bathing.
ok? i go swimming in the thames every year up river and its filled with people and is a great place to swim. idk anything about the “only official bathing spot”… its a river.
I say it time and time again to the “it’s a river of course you can swim in it” people – our rivers are in an atrocious state and should not be swam in (unless you’re closer to the source).
If you saw the state of our sewer systems and the number of unmapped outfalls discharging into our rivers you wouldn’t put your feet in them. That’s without even going into the polluted runoff from agricultural land.
Swimming in them may as well be asking for disease.
Who would voluntarily go into the Thames, isn’t it common knowledge its full of shit?
It’s worrying how quickly the UK is approaching peak stupid. We’re poisoning the water, the resource we depend upon most, because looking after it properly is bad for profits.
They run swimming events at Royal Victoria dock frequently. Now I’m wondering.
Terrible. Nowhere for people to go now. Trapped in all all areas of life
It is absolutely outrageous that we dump raw sewerage into our rivers and seas. As one of the world’s largest economies it is something that we should have outlawed and invested in measures to resolve long ago.
How long until the sewage in the Thames produces such a stink around Westminster that they have to do something about it? Now where have we heard that story before. We do go round in circles sometimes.
The EA is criminally underfunded, they don’t have the staff nor the equipment they need to carry out their jobs effectively. This IMO is by design, the government want the EPA to be underfunded so the water companies can profit. The water companies have failed to provide investment to our infrastructure instead they pump their profits to shareholders and executives. We are being robbed blind while our natural environments get destroyed for the pursuit of profit.
We took are freedom back, and liberated from unelected bureaucrats in Brussels, dumped shit all over are country.
God save the King.
Slow clap for Brexiters and the centrists who enabled it.
God I just don’t care, send it all to Ukraine. NOW.
I’ve swam in the river at East Molsey and near Richmond Bridge, and while I myself haven’t been ill, I know someone who got dysentery from it. So this is surely at least somewhat true.. our beautiful river is no longer swimmable 🙁
I don’t trust any company or government to do the right thing and would never swim in a river in a country populated by dozens of millions of people.
I’ve smelled sewage running into the Thames from Home Park.
Who on earth ever thought Thames is good for swimming???
I wouldn’t swim in the Thames anywhere downstream of New Bridge in Oxfordshire, where the River Windrush joins it.
The Windrush is a small river but absolutely chock full of sewage for the Witney sewage works who constantly discharge into it.
Upstream from there is questionable, downstream is a write off for me.
Not surprised, I live upstream near a Thames Water processing facility. Their outflow pipe smells horrific almost every day.
Illegal discharge of untreated sewage while charging full price to treat sewage is threatening to kill Lake Windermere, just as another example.
https://youtu.be/HWbsX_7gnwc
There is a link in the description of this video to a fundraiser to properly gather all needed data to hopefully effect change. I think they already exceeded their goal, but with the way things are getting more expensive, any further contribution can only help them advance their campaign to enforce or perhaps even tighten existing sewage regulations.
In a past life I worked in Sewage Treatment, and what I can say from my own experience is that there are lots of systems in place to make sure discharge of raw sewage is an absolute last resort. I can also say that these systems must not be being used, everywhere. It’s atrocious, and I have no idea how the bosses are sleeping at night.
Imagine if a peasants like you or me discharge their sewage in the river. Can you guess what will happen? We will wind up paying huge penalty or spend some time in prison.
Thames Water and their bosses? Don’t hold your breath, nothing will happen to them.
> 99% of English bathing sites meet required water quality standards
New statistics show the number of designated bathing waters meeting strict quality standards is the highest since 2015
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/99-of-english-bathing-sites-meet-required-water-quality-standards
Can we please make Orwell *fiction* again?.
Another Brexit win, now we can dump sewage into our rivers again and nobody can stop us.
Thames water plans to halt raw sewage spills into the Thames by 2030. Britain lead the world in recognising the danger of sewage when John Snow identified faecal contaminated water as the source of cholera in 1854. That finding lead to one of the most significant developments of the Victorian era sewage management. Quick as a flash, Thames Water is now taking this finding on board a mere 168 years later and promising they’re going to stop pouring shit into rivers, “sometime fairly soon”. Well, we’ve got to think of the directors bonuses haven’t we, cant expect things to happen overnight.
Just in case anyone doesn’t recall who had that absolutely wizard idea of leaving water supply and management to the private sector, it was Margaret Thatcher.