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How to prevent pollution and flooding from blockages after a period of closure.

Don’t create a monster in your pipes

Environmental pollution and sewer flooding of homes can be caused by unflushable items combined with fat, oil and grease which lead to blockages.

Easy rules for sinks and loos

Unflushables make up nearly 10% of beach litter

Unflushable items like wipes may contain plastic, which is a massive threat to marine life.

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80% of flooding in homes is due to sewer blockages

How we’re tackling pollution and flooding caused by avoidable sewer blockages.

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Why Keep It Clear

Keep It Clear is Anglian Water’s pioneering, transformational behaviour change programme tackling pollution and flooding caused by avoidable sewer blockages.

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When they are flushed down the toilet tampons, pads and other sanitary items can cause blockages in sewers which lead to pollution in our region’s rivers and seas.

How you can help

The unflushables

Take a look at some of the things that shouldn’t end up in our sewers but do.

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Putting rubbish and waste food in the bin rather than down the sink or loo can go a long way to help avoid the misery, cost and bad smells caused by blocked pipes and sewer flooding in your home.

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How can I keep my pipes clear at home?

You can help prevent pollution from avoidable blockages by making small changes in your kitchen and bathroom. These changes will make a big difference to not only keeping our water flowing and your bills down, but protecting the environment as well. By only letting water go down your sink and only flushing water and the three Ps (poo, pee and toilet paper) down your loo, you help the water cycle. It makes it easier and cheaper for us to treat water and return it back to rivers and waterways.

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How to keep pipes clear for food service establishments

Managing fat, oil and food (FOG) waste correctly and legally can help prevent a blockage which leads to bad smells and costs money, loss of reputation and potential business. Legally, food serving establishments could be forced to close until the problem is sorted out.

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How does keeping things clear help?

We can all take action to ensure cleaned water is returned safely to rivers and seas by keeping waste out of our sinks and toilets. If we all recycle where we can and use bins for our waste, it can also save us time and money.

Keeping things clear also means we use less water and carbon in unblocking sewer pipes and pumps, – it’s all part of our overall aim to love every drop.

Our aim to love every drop

Just a few of our community events

The Keep it Clear programme, launched in 2011, has inspired and enabled communities to engage with the issue of blocked pipes and make a real difference.

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Digging deep

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We use local, trusted and known ‘voices’ within the community to spread awareness of our Keep it Clear programme.

Spreading the word

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We’re always out and about in the community sharing interesting stories, why not follow us socially and stay connected.

There's something lurking beneath Lowestoft! These images of fatbergs building up in the sewers were taken during a CCTV camera survey recently. We have gone in to clear them before a pollution happened. Please join the #Unblocktober campaign and help us Keep it Clear! https://t.co/rDeKg0JC5C

There are volunteers out and about across the region helping to make sure the only litter on the ground is Autumn leaf litter. In small, socially distanced groups, the RiverCare and BeachCare teams we support across the East have continued to pick litter and tackle plastic pollution throughout recent months. While current restrictions mean large groups can no longer join together for litter picking events – we can all do our bit in our local communities. And you can protect the environment from plastic pollution without even leaving the house. This month is Unblocktober, a month long campaign to highlight the impact on our rivers and coastline of unflushables in the sewer network. Make sure you bin fats, wipes and other unflushables. Sewers are only there for the three P’s – poo, pee and paper. Find out more at anglianwater.co.uk/keepitclear

Our teams are out every day ensuring your water is clean and healthy. Water sampler Megan captured the sunrise this morning from the top of one of our Lincolnshire drinking water storage reservoirs 😍💦 #lincolnshire #sunrise #earlymorning