Dear fellow swimmers
Swimming the length of the Thames
This week eight swimmers set off on a 200km, non-stop relay along the River Thames from Lechlade to Westminster to demonstrate the UK sewage crisis and demand urgent action.
It has been entertaining as well as gruelling to watch the swim from home, especially with the weather really beating down on the team. I love to swim in the Thames and some of the footage demonstrates just how beautiful it can be. But equally there were sections of the river that were too polluted to swim in.
Huge congratulations to the team who were swimming in support of Surfers Against Sewage. The team – Hector Pardoe, Amber Keegan, Toby Robinson, Jessika Robson, Emily Forwood, Colleen Blair, Calum Maclean and Daniel Smyth – swam through the night and challenging conditions. Their efforts got national news coverage, and this kind of work is essential to keep putting the pressure on the Government and the water
industry. Continuing to swim in our waterways keeps the need for better infrastructure at the top of the news cycle and hopefully will eventually lead to significant change.
Temperatures are dropping
