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Surfers Against Sewage

2024 End of Year Impact Report

Surfers Against Sewage's 2024 End of Year Impact Report documents a landmark year in which water quality became a top-line UK political issue, driven by the charity's March for Clean Water mobilisation, a new real-time sewage map for Scotland, and tens of thousands of campaign actions sent to MPs and water companies via its Safer Seas & Rivers Service app.

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Community beach and river clean-ups, real-time sewage pollution alerts (Safer Seas & Rivers Service app), citizen science water quality data collection, campaigning and policy advocacy, Regional Reps volunteer network

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Over 1,000 media hits secured for the March for Clean Water campaign, including Sky News, ITV News, BBC Breakfast, The Guardian and The Independent
Key Metric 2 45,000+ emails sent to MPs and water company CEOs via the free Safer Seas & Rivers Service app
Key Metric 3 3.6 million hours of sewage discharge into UK waterways recorded and publicised in the last year

Key Outcomes

  • Helped secure a real-time sewage discharge map for Scotland, after years of campaigning for transparency
  • Water quality became a headline general election issue in 2024, with the incoming Environment Secretary naming river, lake and sea clean-up as a top priority
  • Organised the March for Clean Water alongside partner organisations, mobilising thousands of Ocean Activists and high-profile supporters including Dame Kelly Holmes and Fergal Sharkey

Geography

UK-Wide

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