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UK water sports form alliance calling on government to tackle pollution
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 09:41
- Clean Water Alliance lays out three-part strategy for action
- ‘Further and faster action on pollution’ needed, says group
Seven-water based sports, including British Rowing, British Triathlon and Swim England, have formed an alliance to demand the government go “further and faster” in tackling water pollution.
It comes less than a month after the Boat Race was marred by Oxford men’s crew getting sick with E Coli because of high levels of sewage in the Thames , and amid mounting concerns over huge levels of sewage in Britain’s rivers, lakes and coastal waters. Last month an Environment Agency report also found that raw sewage was discharged for more than 3.6m hours into rivers and seas last year, a 105% increase on the previous 12 months.
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