BBCNEWS BBC News at One June 4, 2024 12:21:00
Intersection point. we are showing one of the 34 sewage overflow pipes that are being diverted tojoin the tunnel rather than flowing into the thames. this will clean up the river quite significantly? absolutely. the tunnel can hold enough sewage to fill 600 olympic—sized swimming pools, but in the future that still might not be enough, with climate change expected to bring more heavy rain. the point here is that the solution for london going forward is to do something better with the rainwater than simply throw it in the sewers in the first place, and that is what is going to make the differ...