{"id":266,"date":"2024-08-19T05:41:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T21:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=266"},"modified":"2024-08-19T05:41:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T21:41:09","slug":"anti-sewage-campaign-turns-city-square-into-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2024\/08\/19\/anti-sewage-campaign-turns-city-square-into-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-sewage campaign turns city square into beach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Hull square has been transformed into a mock beach as part of an anti-pollution campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hull and East Riding Friends of the Earth (HERFOE) has set up a bathing spot in Queen Victoria Square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The campaign group said it wanted to raise awareness of sewage discharges “affecting top local bathing spots”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yorkshire Water said it took its “responsibility to protect the environment very seriously”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lauren Saunders from HERFOE said last year saw “the worst sewage spills on record”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn doing nothing, the government and regulators are letting water companies leave our seas in such a state that many will think twice about swimming at what used to be pristine East Yorkshire beaches.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Environment Agency, in Yorkshire there was 0.5 million hours of sewage spills in 2023 \u2013 making up around 14% of the country\u2019s total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this month, Ofwat said it was planning to fine Yorkshire Water \u00a347m<\/a> over past sewage spills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The industry regulator’s chief executive, David Black, said that an Ofwat investigation had “uncovered a catalogue of failure” on how the utility firm ran its sewage works and this “resulted in excessive spills”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yorkshire Water said it was investing \u00a3180m to cut discharges from storm overflows<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Yorkshire Water said it was “disappointed” at the proposed fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The firm had previously apologised “for not acting quickly enough” as well as announcing a \u00a3180m plan to cut discharges from storm overflows by April 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Hull square has been transformed into a mock beach as part of an anti-pollution campaign. Hull and East Riding Friends of the Earth (HERFOE) has set up a bathing spot in Queen Victoria Square. The campaign group said it wanted to raise awareness of sewage discharges “affecting top local bathing spots”. Yorkshire Water said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-protection"],"views":163,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}