Salman Shaheen

Thames Water needs to clean up its act over sewage spills

I spoke to ITV News this morning about alarming reports revealing the level of raw sewage Thames Water is dumping into the river at Isleworth. Thames Water needs to invest in the short term in increasing its storm tank capacity to prevent these incidents occurring. But ultimately, water companies are incentivised to go for the […]

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The Open Kitchen

Throughout the pandemic, the Open Kitchen has been distributing hot food packages to over 200 homeless people, refugees, those on low-incomes, and those who have lost their livelihoods to the pandemic. One of its most stalwart volunteers has been my colleague Daanish Saeed who frequently goes to the Open Kitchen to hand out food packages.

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Holding Thames Water to account over Mogden spill

Many Isleworth residents have been worried about the catastrophic spill from Mogden into the Duke of Northumberland river which left homes and gardens flooded with raw sewage. Ruth Cadbury and I are regularly in touch with affected residents as well as Thames Water and the Environment Agency to ensure decontamination efforts are in place including

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We must win people over to a cleaner, greener country

Following protests just over the border in Ealing, I spoke to The i’s environment reporter Madeleine Cuff about the low traffic neighbourhoods and cycle lanes rapidly spreading across London and other parts of the country. I told her the speed with which they’re being implemented is like a war time footing and that’s exactly what

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