Panorama – Britain’s Dirty Beaches – Chapter 3
SAS's expose on the growing issue of combined sewer overflows impacting on UK... Read more
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Posts Tagged 'Britains Dirty Beaches'
Panorama – Britain’s Dirty Beaches – Chapter 2
SAS’s expose on the growing issue of combined sewer overflows impacting on UK... Read more
08.10.09 - Campaigns, Climate Chaos, CSO's, Diffuse Pollution, Environmental Courts, Environmental Threats, Marine Litter, Protect Our Waves, Protecting Your Health, Sewage and Sickness, Signage, Threats To Watersports
SAS Pleased As European Commission Takes UK To European Court Of Justice Over CSOs
SAS are pleased to hear the European Commission (EC) has decided to take the United Kingdom to the European Court of Justice over non-compliance with EU environment legislation. SAS has spent the summer highlighting the inadequacies of the UK's sewerage system, specifically with Combine Sewage and Stormwater Overflow drains (CSOs), culminating in the hard-hitting Panorama programme "Britain's Dirty Beaches". The EC is concerned that the urban waste water collecting systems and treatment facilities in London and Whitburn in North East England and have deemed them "inadequate and a threat to human health." SAS have highlighted time and again concerns over the... Read more
09.09.09 - Campaigns, Climate Chaos, CSO's, Diffuse Pollution, Environmental Courts, Environmental Threats, Marine Litter, News, Protect Our Waves, Protecting Your Health, Sewage and Sickness, Threats To Watersports
SAS Star in the most popular Panorama of the year
SAS campaigners starred in this weeks shocking BBC 1 Panorama programme 'Britain's Dirty Beaches'. The programme showed the nation SAS's exclusive footage of raw sewage discharging into rivers and bathing waters. This is a scene that is replicated in rivers, seas and bathing waters all over the country after heavy rain. It was the most watched Panorama programme of the year and really hit a nerve across the country. The response we have received since Panorama aired has been fantastic, a mixture of shock at the previously hidden primitive methods of regular sewage disposal and gratitude to SAS for helping Panorama... Read more