Our Work
We are a Registered Charity, based in Oxfordshire, working to end the sewage pollution of rivers like our local Windrush.
Our focus is investigation and analysis with the aim of making rivers safe for all.
Our aims
Make rivers safe for all
We aim to make rivers safe for every living thing from invertebrates like the mayfly and dragonfly larvae, to the people who work around them and enjoy them – and everything in-between.
Stop sewage pollution
End the illegal release of untreated sewage into our rivers. Stop this practice from being used to prop up underinvestment by water companies
Raise the bar
Improve treatment standards so legally discharged waste doesn't harm our rivers. This is a serious problem.
"We want to pass the river onto the next generation as a beautiful asset - not a miserable liability."
Ash Smith, WASP Founder
What we do
Inform
​We have had excellent coverage from excellent media outlets.
Starting big with BBC Countryfile in 2018 and continuing through BBC Panorama in 2021, ITV Tonight, Rivercide, Paul Whitehouse Our Troubled Rivers in 2023, and Inside the Crisis in 2025, with many national and local news items on TV and radio.
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Even overseas coverage in Germany, France, and China.
In print and online: The FT, The Times, The Guardian, The Express, iNews, The Big Issue, Oxford Mail and more.
And now
DIRTY BUSINESS
on Channel 4
Campaign
We work across political parties and collaborate with other groups who have similar goals. We are co-founders of the Sewage Campaign Network.
We also engage with water companies, the regulators and government, as well as County, District, Town and Parish Councils.
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Support from councillors has been across the political parties and a uniting issue.