Punk icon Feargal Sharkey has hit out at the crisis of filthy waterways in Scotland
Popstar Feargal Sharkey has demanded action over Scotland’s sewage dumping crisis as we reveal 14,000 Olympic pools of filth spewed into our rivers in a year. The punk icon - now a pollution campaigner raising the alarm over filthy waterways in England - warned the situation could be even worse in Scotland.
On top of that, Scottish authorities are only required to monitor a tiny 4 per cent of overflows in our 31,000-mile sewer network - compared to England which monitors 89 per cent. It comes amid a growing campaign south of the border to clean up sewage-polluted rivers - with music star-turned-eco warrior Feargal Sharkey a key figure.
In 2020, the figures were even worse, with more than 12,000 overflow events - and 48million cubic metres of waste discharged, or 19,200 Olympic pools’ worth. Figures for 2022 are set to be published in the coming days. “And I can see no evidence there has been the scale of investment required to deal with the growing population that has developed there over the last 30 years. It simply hasn’t happened.
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