More than 800,000 hours of sewage spills in Wales last year, report claims

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What happened

It is equivalent to a sewage discharge happening every five minutes, according to campaigners.

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  • Reported by BBC Science and published Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:05:35 UTC.

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