Sewage was discharged for 18,674 hours – or 778 days – on Scottish political party leaders’ own doorsteps, i has found.
In total, there were 1,440 spills in rivers, lochs and coasts in the leaders’ constituency areas, according to new analysis of Scottish Water data.
i is urging political parties to get behind its manifesto to Save Britain’s Rivers, amid growing public anger over the amount of sewage dumped in the UK’s waterways.
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Unless they dump it right into parliament, nothing is going to happen.
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They need to move on from leaders’ figurative doorsteps and focus on emptying sewage onto their literal doorsteps.
That might hurry things along a little.
