UK raw sewage discharges illegal
SAS are today celebrating the decision of the European Courts of Justice ruling that Northumbrian Water and Thames Water are illegally discharging raw sewage via combined sewer overflows.
SAS are today celebrating the decision of the European Courts of Justice ruling that Northumbrian Water and Thames Water are illegally discharging raw sewage via combined sewer overflows.
Surfers Against Sewage’s innovative environmental education programme will be visiting Scotland and Northern Ireland from the 01st - 5th of October, with the support of the Quiksilver Foundation.
Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) is delighted to launch its new Regional Reps website, sasreps.org.uk, highlighting its newly expanded nationwide network of dedicated volunteers fighting to keep UK oceans, waves, waterways and beaches free from pollution.
Surfers Against Sewage is calling for community volunteers to get involved with the Autumn Beach Clean Series at some of the UK’s most treasured surf spots and beaches.
SAS is today launching a new campaign calling for UK law to recognise and protect UK surfing waves, beaches and the livelihood of coastal communities.
SAS volunteers uncover plastic packaging that has been on UK beaches for almost as long as The Queen’s reign.
Surfers Against Sewage’s innovative environmental education programme will be visiting the North East of England from the 21st to 26th May, with the support of the Quiksilver Foundation. The SAS education team will be visiting locations from Mablethorpe to Newcastle, visiting schools and colleges along the way.
In only it’s 3rd year, SAS’s Sewage Alert Service will provide beach users with free real time information on raw sewage discharges available at almost 200 UK beaches from 15th May, the start of the bathing season.
Hugo Tagholm
As a surfer and environmentalist I've been involved with SAS since the early 1990s, first as a member, then as a campaign activist and member of the Board of Directors. I became full-time director at the end of 2008 - a dream job, protecting the UK's waves, beaches & oceans for everyone.
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