And who pray tell are the guilty here.

Certainly won’t do your mental health much good swimming in faeces. It would be reasonable to suspect also that swimming in coastal or Loch waters around Scotland would be a rather cold and 8ndeed dangerous affair,. Certainly not something that one would imagine to be encouraged.

Personally I wasn’t aware that wild swimming was a regular thing pursued by very many folks. Even less folks if it is populat only with those with mental health issues. The local swimming baths one would think would be a better choice.

I haven’t read the article but with all the development on places like Loch Lomond one has to suspect that the Loch could be one of the areas sustaining effluent discharges. The Loch Certainly suffers from algal bloom due to eutrophication which is oft caused by sewage discharges. No doubt Flamingo Land with its hotels, chalets, restaurants and all the rest of the development would have added to that.

Moreover on the West Coast and where there are ever increasing numbers of fish farms it seems that the waters here can be quite compromised with not just fish pen poo but also the residues from the huge dishes of antibiotics and hormones applied to the fish tokill lice and disease that is kicking typically about 60 percent of all the salmon reared in the pens.

No wonder Salmon Scotland recently wined and dined Ana’s Sarwar and Iain Murray at a VIzp day at the football when the Conference was on in Liverpool. Poo comes from various sources.

But yes, over development has big potential to do environmental damage. And if it hates the mentally ill that makes it worse.