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Surfers Against Sewage relaunches the Safer Seas & Rivers Service with a 'Poo Watch' stunt on Jubilee Beach, as new data shows the public are scared to swim outside for fear of dirty waters. On the eve of the long...

The net is tightening around water industry polluters yet today’s response by the government to the Environmental Audit Committee's  Water Quality in Rivers report still fails to go far or fast enough to fully recognise or respond to the scale...

Here at SAS we understand the connection between the environment and our mental health and wellbeing. How being in the ocean can give us a boost after a tough day; how walking along the sand and feeling it between our...

What a day. More proof, if any was needed, that the demand to #EndSewagePollution has wide public support and water companies can’t bury their head in the sand any longer. Yes, the first national day of action for water quality...

Did you know that over 16,000 single-use polystyrene bodyboards are discarded on UK beaches every single year? Horrific isn't it? Unfortunately many beach visitors may feel that they have little alternative than to buy a cheap bodyboard for their beach...

Today, the Government has launched a public consultation on its Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan (SODRP) setting out targets for how it expects water companies to ‘eliminate ecological harm from sewage discharges’. And surprise, surprise, the targets set completely fail...

New data released by the Environment Agency, today, shows that water companies were responsible for pouring sewage into river, lakes, estuaries and our seas a disgusting 372,500 times in 2021. That’s an eye watering 2.6 million hours of sewage flowing...

We are living through unprecedented times, with a cascade of enormous global challenges sweeping across society. We’re buffeted from one catastrophe to the next - humanitarian, health, environment, climate, biodiversity and war – with perhaps previously unseen scale and pace....

  This year, industry and government must put their words into action and deliver on their commitments to tackle sewage pollution. And it's up to us to keep the pressure on. We are joining forces with end sewage pollution campaigners...