Independent: The heavy rain is having a damaging effect on Britain's beaches, washing raw sewage from overflow pipes and pollution on to bathing areas. The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) warned yesterday that the recent spate of wet weather was having an adverse effect on the coast, on the same day it announced a record number of beaches across the UK had earned the top award for water quality. One of the major threats to bathing water quality are overflow pipes which discharge raw sewage into rivers and...
URL: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/heavy-rain-threatens-to-pollute-nations-beaches-7707606.html
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