Participants in Oxford v Cambridge competition were warned to cover wounds due to risks from E coli-polluted waterway
On a bright, unexpectedly warm afternoon, it would have been easy to assume the crowds that gathered by the Thames yesterday for the 169th Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race were a signal that all remains rosy in the world of rowing and rivercraft.
Joanna Bates, a visitor from Knutsford, was also anxious. “The issue of the river is a worry but it is not just the Thames that is affected. Nearly all our rivers are in trouble.” Gary Hughes, from Bayswater, agreed. “That water – it’s filthy, disgusting. You wouldn’t put your dog in it.” Thanks to the vast amounts of sewage now being dumped in the Thames, prevalence of the bug was 10 times higher than what is considered to be safe. As a result, crews from both boats were warned not to take a dive into the Thames at the end of the race lest they suffer diarrhoea, kidney failure or sepsis., which has been found to have been releasing effluent directly into the river and its tributaries on a grand scale.
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