More people are getting ill after swimming and paddling in rivers and seas, a new report says.
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The charity Surfers Against Sewage received 720 sickness reports over the last year, submitted via itsThat was an increase compared to the previous year when 286 people reported falling ill after entering the water, and the same time period in 2019-2020 when there were 124 sickness reports. Ear, nose and throat infections were common too, with respiratory, skin and urinary tract infections also reported, it said.Ness Woodcock-Dennis had to go to hospital with an eye infection she caught from wild swimming
"It took me a couple of months to get back in the sea, and now I only swim with my head above water for fear of becoming ill again. It makes me very angry that the water companies are affecting how I use the water," she said.Julia Walker contracted a bacterial and a kidney infection in September after swimming in the sea. The campaign group monitors water quality at over 400 locations around UK rivers and coastlines.
According to data from the Environment Agency, UK water firms discharged raw sewage more than 770,000 times over the course of 2020 and 2021.
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