Soraya Wooller spends her weekends in places most people wouldn’t want to venture. A volunteer for local group Windrush Against Sewage Pollution, Soraya tests treated wastewater being discharged back into her local river from a nearby sewage treatment plant.
In the past ten years, Soraya and her community have seen the river deteriorate. The water has turned opaque, coated with algae, its fish populations quietly diminishing.
That’s why she feels compelled to monitor the wastewater coming from the local treatment works that she says are severely damaging the local river, and encourages others to join her.
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