Water quality report reveals concerns over state of River Severn in Shropshire
A report highlighting the "shocking state of UK bathing waters" has also revealed concerns about the quality of the River Severn in Shrewsbury.
Surfers Against Sewage (SAS), which campaigns for clean oceans, rivers and lakes, has released its annual water quality report.
The report concluded that dozens of popular swimming locations in the country would be deemed 'poor' quality if they were officially designated as bathing spots.
The organisation's testing on the River Severn in Shrewsbury found that water quality dropped from 'sufficient' to 'poor' downstream of sewage overflows.
The report says that there were six overflows between the two testing sites.
A total of 40 sites across the country were examined by the group's 'citizen science' testing programme.
They designated 24 sites with a 'poor' bathing water classification, five as 'sufficient and four as 'good', while seven received an 'excellent' classification.
There has been increasing concern over the state of Britain's waterways, with campaigners protesting about the use of 'storm overflows'.
In Shropshire, campaigners have specifically called for action over the state of the River Severn.
