UK water sports alliance calls on government to end ‘death-knell’ pollution

• Clean Water Alliance lays out three-part strategy for action
• Further and faster action on pollution' needed, says group

Seven water-based sports, including British Rowing, British Triathlon and Swim England, have formed an alliance to demand the government go further and faster" in tackling water pollution.

It comes less than a month after the Boat Race was marred by Oxford men's crew getting sick with E Coli amid high levels of sewage in the Thames, and with concerns mounting over huge levels of sewage in Britain's rivers, lakes and coastal waters. Last month an Environment Agency report also found that raw sewage was discharged for more than 3.6m hours into rivers and seas last year, a 105% increase on the previous 12 months.