Raw sewage breaches in UK rivers 10 times greater than watchdog estimates

In 2020 there were 160 breaches of Environment Agency permits to release sewage into rivers, UCL professor tells MPsThe scale of water companies illegally discharging sewage is 10 times greater than the Environment Agency (EA) estimates, MPs have been told.Peter Hammond, former professor of Computational Biology, University College London and now retired, said his work analysing sewage treatment works found in 2020 alone 160 breaches of permits granted by the watchdog to allow sewage discharges. Continue reading...