Our relationship with the natural world explored by Tom Heap and Helen Czerski.
Stories about the UK’s rivers have been flooding the headlines in recent years. And it’s not good news: sewage and chemical pollution are at worrying levels, putting both freshwater ecosystems and human health at risk.
Helen explains that, “People had been using London as just a waste disposal system, and eventually the river just failed to cope. So, it was full of stinky, horrible, dead things and leftovers from abattoirs and all this kind of thing. This became a crisis and no one could agree on what to do about it because it was clearly so expensive to fix it.”
In our combined system, water from toilets and sinks goes into the same sewers as rainwater. It’s designed so that during heavy downpours an overflow system operates to stop sewage backing up and spilling into people’s homes, and it’s released into rivers and the sea instead.
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