River Thames rowers are becoming sick every week due to the river’s poor water quality ahead of the the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race, The i Paper can reveal. It is understood rowing clubs along ...

River Action has warned that the Thames would be classified as ‘poor’ under regulations if it were designated as a ‘bathing water’ site.

HENLEY-ON-THAMES, England (AP) — Endurance swimmer Joan Fennelly is undaunted by frigid water and long distances, swimming year-round in the wild. The River Thames is one of Britain's many ...

The part of the Thames which runs through London is the “worst for sewage”, a clean water campaign group has said. The Henley Mermaids, a group of five women who regularly swim in the river ...

The Boat Race sees the crews thrown onto an unpredictable, challenging and very dirty river. The Thames has high levels of the bacteria E. coli and environmental campaign group River Action has ...

Fifteen times a year, the sheer volume of waste water entering Thames Water's Mogden sewage works in southwest London ...

The River Thames is one of Britain's many waterways contaminated with sewage and agricultural pollution. “If it looks right, if it smells right, I’ll go in," Fennelly said.