Water in the UK is increasingly unaffordable, full of plastics, and making people sick. Our water companies should be fixing leaky pipes. Instead, they dump sewage in the sea and send billions of pounds to their shareholders. What can we do to be better stewards of our natural resources? In this episode of People Over Power, Chloe Flood explains how together, we can hold polluters accountable and clean up our waterways.

Credits:

Music by The Joy Drops via Free Music Archive (CC BY 4.0)

Logo and episode art by Maria McCoy

Other sounds:

Cash register by kyles (CC0 1.0)

TOILET FLUSH.wav by tsakanemashaba (CC BY-NC 3.0)

Data sources:

Plastic Pollution: Facts & Figures, Surfers Against Sewage 

Water, Common Wealth 

Water, We Own It

Water Pollution: Facts & Figures, Surfers Against Sewage

Take Action:

Download the Safer Seas & Rivers Service app.

Sign a petition to end the sewage pollution scandal.

Join a Paddle-Out Protest on 16th May.