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