Very important health PSA for UK beach goers Link and app at bottom of post, please share this post/link and app!! The weathers getting nicer for me and all my other UK folk, which means it's prime time for going to the beach! Exept total privatisation of ALL water companies (thank you Thatcher I hope you rot painfully forever) means olympic swimming pools worth of raw sewage has been being pumped into the ocean along every single coastline for DECADES. There's flats near me that have literally JUST been found to have the waste plumbing connected directly to the ocean by "complete accident".
Swimming in the oceans of literal shit WILL give you a very high chance of contracting pathogenic E.coli. This WILL make you very sick and CAN kill you. Swimming it the polluted waters has killed people before, especially children and people who are immunocompromised
I highly suggest watching the Dirty Business series, it touches on this topic more than I can in this post.
PLEASE check pollution levels before you hit the beach, the Surfers Against Sewage foundation have websites and apps you can use. We need to start looking out for ourselves AND eachother so much more, so please share this with whoever and where ever!
https://www.sas.org.uk/
Safer Seas & Rivers service app (Image below is a screenshot I've just taken, notice all the crosses? Thats unsafe water, if you click on them it will tell you WHEN sewage has been discharged and also WHO is responsible for it. These companies have so much blood on their hands and they don't care, we NEED to look out for eachother because the higher ups will NEVER.)
