Naturalist Steve Backshall: State of our rivers is source of shame

Naturalist Steve Backshall lives by the Thames and said contamination is ruining the river.

The Deadly 60 presenter, who lives adjacent Maidenhead successful Berkshire, told BBC News helium was teaching his children to aquatics successful an country wherever quality faeces is periodically released into the water.

"The authorities of our rivers... should beryllium a root of nationalist shame," Backshall said.

It comes arsenic Thames Water has been fined £3.3m aft it discharged millions of litres of undiluted sewage into 2 rivers successful Sussex, and stream contamination posing a hazard to wellness was recovered successful tests successful the River Thames soon earlier Henley Royal Regatta.