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Northumbria Water 'released one million tonnes of sewage' to sea (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Nearly one million tonnes of raw sewage is estimated to have been released from a pumping station into the North Sea in 2024.

Northumbrian Water produced the figure for releases from its site at Whitburn after an Environmental Information Regulation (EIR) request from South Tyneside resident Steve Lavelle.

It calculated 944,673 tonnes of sewage had been pumped into the sea, a slight drop from its number for 2023 of 1.007 million tonnes.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Just nationalise water distribution I don’t fucking understand why there is any disagreement about this

(Note: the author very well understands the reason for this, but is using lack of understanding as a rhetorical device to emphasise a point of view)