River Thames a ‘death trap’ as E-coli levels shown on live interview

River Thames a 'toxic death trap' as E coli levels shown on live interviewBBC Breakfast

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00:00 I'm holding a World Health Organization approved E. coli incubator and as you can see on the

00:06 results here, I did some testing yesterday in a different part of the catchment near the

00:10 Kennet which feeds into the Thames and it shows 2,963 E. coli colonies per 100 millilitres and

00:17 what that means is if I was to give this to Steve to say cheers he might die. That's how bad it is,

00:24 it's full and I will show you it's full of sediment and in there you can see a death trap

00:32 as Steve described it. So what we have here is a situation on the Thames both on the main body of

00:38 the water but also all across the catchment, sewage getting into the water and putting our

00:42 lives and wildlife at risk.