‘Forever chemicals’ surge during pilot of Thames Water plan to combat drought
Exclusive: utility company wants to draw off tens of millions of litres of water a day from Thames and replace it with treated effluent Levels of a toxic “forever chemical” rose to 13 times the legal limit during Thames Water pilots for a controversial multimillion pound water recycling scheme that will pump millions of litres of treated sewage into the River Thames during drought. The data from the pilots is in star
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- 27 Aug 2026, 05:30 UTC
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- 27 Aug 2026, 19:57 UTC
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Publisher layer
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- Publisher
- The Guardian
- Country
- England / United Kingdom
- Source published
- 27 Aug 2026, 05:00 UTC
- Source updated
- No update timestamp supplied
- Byline
- Sandra Laville Environment correspondent
- Section
- Water
Exclusive: utility company wants to draw off tens of millions of litres of water a day from Thames and replace it with treated effluent Levels of a toxic “forever chemical” rose to 13 times the legal limit during Thames Water pilots for a controversial multimillion pound water recycling scheme that will pump millions of litres of treated sewage into the River Thames during drought. The data from the pilots is in star
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‘Forever chemicals’ surge during pilot of Thames Water plan to combat drought
Exclusive: utility company wants to draw off tens of millions of litres of water a day from Thames and replace it with treated effluent Levels of a toxic “forever chemical” rose to 13 times the legal limit during Thames Water pilots for a controversial multimillion pound water recycling scheme that will pump millions of litres of treated sewage into the River Thames during drought. The data from the pilots is in star
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- machine content-type Reported news observable-rules-v1 / 70% rule confidence
- publisher category Drought rss-category
- publisher category Environment rss-category
- publisher category Environment Agency rss-category
- publisher category Pollution rss-category
- publisher category Rivers rss-category
- publisher category Thames Water rss-category
- publisher category UK news rss-category
- publisher category Water rss-category
- publisher category Water industry rss-category
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- #3024
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- 27 Aug 2026, 05:30 UTC
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- 200 / parsed
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- 477,402 bytes, private gzip evidence
- Collector
- news-ledger/0.1
- Public boundary
- metadata and excerpt