The SAS campaign team has always punched above it's weight. We do this because we are surfers, water users and started out as SAS members and so the campaigns mean as much to us as they does to you. We put in the long hours, determined that each campaign will end in an SAS victory, a victory for surfers, waveriders and water users all over the UK.
We want to do more, but we need your help. We want to extend the SAS campaign team to every corner of the UK coastline. We want to use our greatest resource, YOU, our... Read more
Clean water campaigners from Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) will get on their giant soapbox today to launch SAS's new Go Phosphate Free' campaign ahead of World Water Day (on the 22nd of March). The SAS campaigners and their giant soapbox will be at the Hayle Co-operative supermarket giving away phosphate free Ecover washing powders to shoppers as a positive example of a low impact alternative.
Photocall: At 11am on Friday the 20th of March 2009, SAS campaigners will be outside the entrance to the Hayle Co-operative Supermarket, 18 Copper Terrace, TR27 4EB. SAS campaigners, in wetsuits armed with surfboards, will be... Read more
With the States of Guernsey meeting on Wednesday to decide the future of wastewater charges, Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) campaigners are reminding Deputies that last year's bathing water results were again very disappointing and in years to come are likely only to get worse as European Bathing Water legislation is strengthened.
Having received copies of the 2008 water quality data it appears more than half of Guernsey's designated bathing waters have failed to meet Europe's guideline standard on water quality, with Pembroke beach failing all together.
With a recent strengthening of Europe's water legislation, meeting new bathing water quality standards of the... Read more
New regulations that prevent sewage pollution from ships came into force yesterday in the UK.
The regulations will help the UK control a shipping industry, which the Government believes could be responsible for 5% of all coastal sewage pollution incidents.
This is welcome news to the campaigners at Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) who have been concerned by the length of time it has taken for international agreements made by MARPOL on 'prevention of pollution by sewage from ships' to be transposed into UK law.
The new law targets ships that are over 400 gross tonnes (GT) in weight or those less than 400GT... Read more
Clean water campaigners Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) are supporting the Public Services Department proposal for first time wastewater charges to be introduced in Guernsey.
The Public Services Department proposal could be agreed at the States meeting in January making 'full sewage treatment' a real possibility for Guernsey.
SAS have been campaigning for full sewage treatment in Guernsey since 2004, yet despite several close calls the Government have yet to commit to a modern and efficient treatment plant that would end the daily discharge of raw sewage to Bellegreve Bay.
Wastewater charges have helped countries like the UK deliver a massive coastal clean up... Read more
