{"id":52692,"date":"2023-05-12T12:22:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T11:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shefnews.co.uk\/?p=52692"},"modified":"2023-05-12T12:22:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T11:22:44","slug":"sewage-entered-sheffields-rivers-2909-times-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/05\/12\/sewage-entered-sheffields-rivers-2909-times-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewage entered Sheffield&#8217;s rivers 2,909 times in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sewage is entering Britain\u2019s waterways at alarming rates and it\u2019s especially bad in Sheffield.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/environment.data.gov.uk\/dataset\/21e15f12-0df8-4bfc-b763-45226c16a8ac\">Data <\/a>from the Environment Agency revealed that sewage was dumped into Sheffield\u2019s rivers 2,909 times, or about 8,700 hours last year, which means there were only 60 hours last year where sewage didn\u2019t enter rivers.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheffield Labour councillor Minesh Parekh criticised Yorkshire Water, the private water company in charge of water supply in the area, for failing to invest in its infrastructure and causing the spills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said: \u201cIt is disgraceful that Yorkshire Water have overseen the managed decline of our public infrastructure, while at the same time raking in millions for their shareholders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Tory Government are turning our rivers into open sewers \u2013 it\u2019s time to dump the Tories instead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sheffield Sewage Dumping\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4MJTfA6d0sA?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists have criticised private water companies for prioritising profits over the environment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":52720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,18,21,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-health","category-news","category-top-story"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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