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2023 Water Quality Report
This year we’ve supercharged our report – exploring what water quality issues look like on the ground, in communities across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
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Your Water Your Say – How to Get Involved
Time to have your voice heard at your local water company meeting in November. 'Your Water, Your Say' meetings are a huge opportunity for you to question your water companies about their upcoming plans on investment, the environment, bills and sewage.
Europe’s Biggest Beach Clean Campaign back for second year
The Million Mile Clean is part of our campaign against plastic pollution. It saw over 142,400 volunteers clean nearly 400,000kg of packaging pollution across the UK last year. The packaging pollution collected by volunteers provides us with the evidence to...
It’s National Payroll Giving Week. Here’s everything you need to know…
As a charity, much of our ocean-saving work is funded by our incredible supporters, members and donors. These regular donations fuel record-breaking beach cleans, industry-shaking sewage pollution campaigns, ocean activist training, and so much more. Truly, the list goes on....
#EndSewagePollution: We need action not words
Since the Environment Act was passed last year government have been talking up the Strategic Policy Statement (the document government uses to tell the water sector what they expect from them), as the next big moment in ending sewage pollution....
Grassroots action turning the tide on plastic pollution
Ocean Activists are helping to remove a massive 43.3 million single use plastic items per year as part of Surfers Against Sewage’s grassroots Plastic Free Communities movement. Plastic pollution is a growing threat that is on the verge of colonizing...
2022: The Super Year of Ocean Activism
With your support, we are proud to have inspired such an incredible year of engagement and action in 2021. Record numbers of Ocean Activists around the UK empowered to act on some of the most pressing issues facing the ocean,...
#ShowTheLove For The Ocean
Surfers Against Sewage is joining the #ShowTheLove campaign to make sure the ocean is front and centre of the climate action – and that’s where you come in. We want to mobilise as many people as possible to show their...
Progress to clean up our coastlines grinding to a halt
New bathing waters classifications in England show progress to clean up our coastlines is stalling. The new figures show that 71% of bathing waters have received excellent bathing water status compared to 72% of bathing waters when last classified...
Ocean charities call out the Government on stalled “super year” for Ocean Recovery
In January last year, the Government declared 2021 would be a Marine Super Year, highlighting ‘unprecedented alignment of international and domestic marine agendas’. So we joined forces with 11 other marine conservation organisations to produce a Marine Scorecard setting...
Parliamentary Committee slams governments, water companies and regulators for turning blind eye to river pollution.
Today, the Environmental Audit Committee (a cross party group of MPs responsible for scrutinising the government on all things environment) has released its report on water quality on rivers. And surprise, surprise its yet more damning proof of water companies’...