Sewage dumped 40 times A DAY
Daily Record|March 31, 2023
Activist & rocker Sharkey demands Scottish Government cleans up act
DAN VEVERS
Sewage dumped 40 times A DAY

SEWAGE was dumped in waterways more than 14,000 times last year - a rate of nearly 40 incidents a day.

Rocker-turned-pollution campaigner Feargal Sharkey said new figures for 2022 laid bare the "full scale of the horror and abuse of Scotland's rivers".

Yesterday, we revealed analysis of sewage spills in 2021 which showed gaps in data - with just four per cent of overflows monitored in Scotland, compared with 90 per cent in England.

Now figures from Scottish Water show 47million cubic metres of waste was dumped in our waters last year - equal to nearly 19,000 Olympic swimming pools.

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