Sewage Hits The Fan, Again!
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BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Today we look at the increase in sewage spills into England’s waterways and how the Competition and Markets Authority is trying to prevent ‘greenwashing’ by fashion companies.
Adam is joined by BBC climate reporter Esme Stallard to help explore these two stories.
BBC Panorama and Countryfile journalist Joe Crowley speaks to Adam and Esme about the amount of sewage in Britain’s rivers and seas. And BBC Newsbeat’s Pria Rai, explains why fashion companies are promising to change the way they present the environmental impact of their clothes.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, do you want the good news or the bad news? |
| 0:07.5 | The good news is the BBC News website has an amazing interactive map of England where you can zoom in on where you live or where your |
| 0:15.1 | friends and family and relatives live and get some really detailed data. The |
| 0:20.1 | bad news is the data is new up-to-date data released this week about how much sewers have been |
| 0:27.4 | overflowing with sewage into our waterways and so I thought I'd zoom in on Chichester, because I've got some friends that live near |
| 0:36.1 | there in West Sussex. |
| 0:38.6 | And unfortunately, in their patch is one of the worst sewage overflow areas in terms of the number of hours. |
| 0:46.2 | It's on the River Lavant and in 2023 according to this map there was an overflow of sewage 286 times in the year for a total of 6,542 hours, which equates to 273 days non-stop if it had happened in a non-stop way. |
| 1:07.0 | So that's the sort of data you can get. |
| 1:09.0 | We're still waiting for updated data on Scotland and Wales as well. But what does it all mean? We will |
| 1:15.2 | discuss that and some other environmental themed stories on this episode of |
| 1:19.5 | Newscast. Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:23.0 | Why can't people buy a house? |
| 1:24.0 | Look at their wages. |
| 1:25.0 | Do you have any questions on things that are not related to math? |
| 1:28.0 | People who say that we were partying simply do not know what they are talking about. |
| 1:32.0 | The idea of global warming has ended the era of global boiling has arrived. |
| 1:37.0 | It's the first time ever I've been able to say, well done, Kia. |
| 1:41.0 | I'll end by tempting her to update newscast and update this house. |
| 1:44.8 | The Prime Minister is not under a desk. |
| 1:47.4 | Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio and we are going to be focusing this episode on two |
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