I used to think river pollution was something from a bygone era. I imagined the dark satanic mills of the Industrial Revolution or the open sewers of previous centuries spewing poison into our rivers had been consigned firmly to the past.
I’d blithely assumed that, as with so many other areas of environmental protection, we had drastically cleaned up our act. Oh boy was I wrong.
It transpires that Scotland’s government-owned water company, Scottish Water, is dumping untreated human waste into our rivers more than 30 times a day.
Research gathered by investigative journalists at The Ferret revealed raw sewage was deliberately discharged into Scottish watercourses over 10,000 times last year. This may be just the tip of the iceberg as Scottish Water only monitors about three per cent of sewage release points.
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