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News from the river


Sunday 5 March - 8pm BBC2.
The first episode of a 2 part hard-hitting documentary presented by comedian and passionate voice for nature, Paul Whitehouse. WASP has...
Mar 4, 2023
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Sewage is hot!
With The Times and the i - newspaper both launching national water pollution campaigns last week sewage pollution has been all over the...
Feb 19, 2023
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Making life better, not worse, please.
For many years, new housing developments have been joined to existing sewer networks without any care for whether the sewage works or the...
Jan 16, 2023
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Of Course, it's Happy New Year!
Thanks to all our volunteers, supporters and donors for helping us to shine a light on the sewage pollution scandal in 2022. And a big...
Jan 1, 2023
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Waterways day
Friday 18 November saw a new version of the event formerly known as Water Day started by West Oxfordshire District Council in 2018 when...
Nov 24, 2022
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A week is a long time in politics..
But it still took former Secretary of State, George Eustice seven months to reply to our letters about the failure of the Storm Overflow...
Oct 17, 2022
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Dodgy data...
Who could have guessed that allowing the water companies to mark their own homework would end badly? Everyone apart from the government...
Sep 29, 2022
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Thames Water showcase their work at Witney Sewage Treatment Works – Friday 9th September
It is good news that Thames Water wish to show the local community and its locally elected councillors the work they have been doing to...
Sep 7, 2022
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Did MPs vote to keep dumping untreated sewage?
Whether or not they meant to, it turns out they did. If you are short of time, skip to the letter to the Secretary of State at the end....
Sep 5, 2022
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Planning to keep on polluting - that's it?
A few months ago you may remember the government putting out its hopelessly inadequate plan for 'consultation'. WASP wrote a few lines...
Aug 28, 2022
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