‘My daughter started to run a fever’: Britain’s swimmers on how sewage changed their summer

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With pollution at high levels and growing worse, some keen swimmers have stopped going in the sea. Many have felt the impact on their mental health – not to mention the pain and discomfort of E coli

this year because of sewage dumping, according to a poll by Savanta for the Liberal Democrats last month.

Howarth says his daughter, who is immunocompromised, tested positive for E coli in the week after their holiday. “She started to run a fever and had a digestive upset,” he says. “Having a compromised immune system may have made it more likely. On a typical summer weekend, Felicity Fletcher would take her young children to Felpham beach, near Bognor Regis, for a swim. With the seaside just a 10-minute walk away, she would make packed lunches, bring along games and make a day of it.

 

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