Sewage was dumped in Scottish waterways more than 14,000 times last year - a staggering rate of nearly 40 incidents a day
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The Lib Dems branded the revelations “disgusting” - and joined ex-Undertones frontman Sharkey in demanding urgent action from the Scottish Government. But in light of these latest figures, popstar Sharkey, 64 - now a key voice sounding the alarm over filthy waterways across the UK - hit out: “The full scale of the horror and abuse of Scotland's rivers is slowly being laid bare.
"By that, my interpretation as a layman is that Noah's Ark would need to be floating down the middle of Sauchiehall Street, collecting animals two by two. “Then we need an acceleration of measures to upgrade sewage systems and prevent almost 19,000 Olympic pools worth of sewage from flowing into our rivers and onto our beaches."
And in the 2022 figures, that trend continues - with nearly 4500 incidents not recording the volume of waste discharged.
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