All the rivers and lakes where water companies have dumped our sewage

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United Utilities had more spills than any other water company in England last year

As Labour plan to crack down on polluting water companies, use our interactive map to see how many times sewage was dumped into the rivers, lakes and streams in your area.

Water companies in England spilled from storm overflows into the country’s waterways 464,056 times in 2023. That’s the equivalent of 1,271 times a day. Those spills lasted for a combined total of more than 3.6 million hours. Yorkshire Water’s storm overflow discharges lasted a combined total of 77,761 hours , Severn Trent Water’s lasted 60,253 hours , and South West Water’s lasted 58,249 hours .

 

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