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    How clean are England's rivers? The latest report makes for uncomfortable reading | Rachel Salvidge

    If you’ve been wild swimming this summer it’s worrying to discover that all water bodies are polluted beyond legal limits
    by Rachel Salvidge Sep 25, 2020 3 minutes
    Plastic waste and pollution in the Thames at Limehouse, London, 2018. Photograph: Nigel Bowles/Alamy

    England, 2020. Every single river and lake is polluted beyond legal limits. Not one is free from toxic chemicals from industries past and present. Water companies disgorge untold volumes of raw human sewage into them, while farm fertilisers and pesticides seep insidiously into rivers, accompanied by lashings of slurry.

    Meanwhile, runoff from towns and roads carries such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and lead into our watercourses. And sneaky old landfills, mines and industrial sites – happily forgotten –

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