One man, who did not want to be named, said his son – who is in his 20s – had been swimming in the river with friends on Thursday, and had “no issues whatsoever, you could see the bottom of the river even when it was deep”.<\/p>\n
However, the next day they noticed the water “was a bit cloudier, but assumed it was just run-off from the thunder storms in the area”.<\/p>\n
On Saturday morning, the father woke up to his son being “violently sick” with “uncontrollable diarrhea”, with the friends he had been swimming with suffering from the same symptoms.<\/p>\n
After he saw posts on social media of others being sick after swimming in the river, he used a website to track local sewage discharges.<\/p>\n
He said according to the website, upstream of where his son had been swimming United Utilities had discharged sewage across multiple sites during Thursday night and Friday morning.<\/p>\n
“It’s completely irresponsible to do this in the middle of hot, dry, sunny weather,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Anybody with an ounce of common sense knows there’ll be loads of people in the rivers, especially children.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One man, who did not want to be named, said his son – who is in his 20s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-674009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}