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Semi related - the UK pouring sewage into its waterways has been front page news of late. It’s up to 3.6 million hours of sewage discharge per year.

https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-62631320

Franch put a lot of effort into rerouting old swears that dumped into the seine ahead of the up coming Olympics so they could hold events in the river

When you say the UK, what you mean is a group of corrupt private companies that find it more convenient and cost friendly to dump raw sewage rather than correctly process it. I'm fairly sure the majority of people in the UK would be in favour of nationalising such companies and instead dumping their executives into the river instead [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V-Nwk9E1bs

Such as...in the Danube river O_O

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-brown-danube-belgrade-sewers-t...

One notable instance was “Bubbly Creek” in Chicago where the slaughterhouses dumped so much refuse in a tributary to the Chicago River that the water bubbled from the decay of the trash. The riverbed there is still polluted with toxic chemicals.