Our Waters, Our Lives! Protesters Fight for a Cleaner River Severn

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00:00♪

00:07♪ Clean up the river, clean up the river, down to the sea.

00:14♪ And growing, the river is flowing, down to the sea.

00:21♪ Clean up the river, clean up the river, down to the sea.

00:30♪ Clean up the river, clean up the river, down to the sea.

00:39Today, every single river in England is polluted.

00:42A whole town was poisoned last summer.

00:45In four years, the last four years alone,

00:48we have seen over 12 million hours worth of sewage

00:52dumped into our rivers and onto our beaches.

00:56And helping guide this trail of tragedy

00:59is on a regulatory system so dysfunctional,

01:02so deeply fractured,

01:04that it is becoming different to its own failure and incompetence.