More than one in 10 people have fallen ill directly as a result of exposure to polluted river water, according to the participants in a new citizen science project 💧 BawdenTom reports
, agricultural run-off, heavy metals from disused mines and chemicals leaching from plastic in rivers, canals, streams, lakes and ponds – although it cannot be proved definitively that that was the cause of any illness.
“These findings offer more concerning evidence about the deteriorating state of the UK’s waterways,” said Lizzie Carr, founder of, the river clean-up and data collection charity which ran the citizen science project. “The survey indicates people are getting ill from the waterways, which can no longer be safely used to their full potential. It shows that the only sure-fire way water users can stop themselves being put at risk is by not using the waterways.
canals, coastal areas and other waterways in England and Wales in 2022, lasting a total of 2.3 million hours, according to an analysis by Top of the Poops., which is fighting the problem in rivers as well as coastal areas, received 720 sickness reports in the year to October 2022 – although it’s unclear how many people engaging in water activities in those same areas were not affected., believes the threat of river pollution to human health has been greatly exaggerated.
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