England's Open Toilets

 The scale of raw sewage discharges into rivers by England’s biggest privatised water firm is revealed in a new interactive map showing real-time discharges. Thames Water has created an interactive map showing sewage dumping via storm overflows in real-time.

Ashley Smith, of Windrush Against Sewage Pollution, said: “It shows the extent to which Thames Water is reliant on being able to use our rivers and streams as toilets to deal with problems caused largely by underinvestment and profiteering..."

 Data shows that in some locations, hundreds of hours of raw sewage is being discharged through storm overflows. At Marsh Gibbon, a village in Buckinghamshire, raw sewage was discharged on 19 December for 395 hours (16 days). A storm overflow at Standlake in west Oxfordshire discharged 122 hours of raw sewage into the River Windrush on New Year’s Eve. At Windsor, discharges into the River Thames carried on for four hours on Wednesday.

‘Streams as toilets’: Thames Water’s real-time map shows scale of sewage dumps | Rivers | The Guardian