Data from 2021 released at same time as government plan to stop 40% of untreated sewage releases by 2040Water companies discharged raw sewage into English rivers 372,533 times last year, a slight reduction on the previous year.The water companies covering England released untreated sewage for a combined total of more than 2.7m hours; compared with 3.1m hours in 2020, according to data released by the Environment Agency (EA) on Thursday. Continue reading… Source – Full Article https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/31/sewage-released-into-english-rivers-for-27m-hours-last-year-by-water-firms