Over 80% of England's sewage spills may be illegal, analysis suggests

Millions of people across England are exposed to contaminated waterways through illegal sewage discharges affecting rivers, lakes, and seas used for recreation and drinking water.

Beneath England's rivers and coastlines runs a quiet legal crisis: for years, raw sewage has been discharged into public waterways not in moments of genuine emergency, but as routine practice. A retired academic's painstaking analysis of leaked court documents now suggests that the vast majority of these spills — some 86 percent — occurred during ordinary weather, placing them outside the narrow legal permission the law has always granted. It is a story not merely of pollution, but of a regulatory compact quietly abandoned, and of the long distance between what the law says and what those entr

Over 80% of England's sewage spills may be illegal, analysis suggests

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