Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - BBCNEWS - 20210416:02:35:00
And we absolutely can't have sewerflooding in people's homes and businesses, so overflows allow it to be released into the environment. but this isn't exceptional, is it? this is commonplace. there's more monitoring than ever and that's going to give us more data than we've ever had before, and companies are committed to reducing the use of overflows into the future. some of the storm overflows are located at sewage treatment works. you might think treatment works treat all the sewage that comes in but, in wet weather, they're also allowed to dump untreated sewage in the river. this is the riv...