We are asking councillors across the country to support a national ban on urban pesticide use. Take one minute to email your councillors asking them to get involved! #PesticideFreeTowns pan-uk.org/calling-for-co…

📢 This Sunday, join us in Newbury & show your support for the Kennet Catchment River Keepers Association. Together with them & Angling Trust we're demanding an end to the sewage pollution pouring into our chalk streams.
See you there 👊
#sewagepollution

In the Kennet this morning recording a podcast with UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology about Riverfly Partnership
We're the Riverfly Hub for the Kennet & Pang catchments.
Riverfly monitoring is a successful national citizen science initiative, nationally 68 trigger level breaches were picked up in 2023.

Today, Defra announced that £11 million from water company fines will be reinvested to improve our water environment.

However, this is only a fraction of what's required to restore our rivers.

Chief Executive of The Rivers Trust Mark Lloyd responds to the announcement 👇

Our rivers are experiencing a deluge of untreated #sewage spills which are causing their health to fail.

They need us to be the voice they don’t have.

Use our tool to contact your local political representative: demand that they stand up for #rivers .

✉ theriverstrust.org/take-action/wr…

🚨New Sewage Map!💩

Sorry to add more #sewage to your feed, but it's to tell you that we've updated our interactive Sewage Map with the recent 2023 spill data.

The data is in your hands: find out where & for how long untreated sewage reached your river.

theriverstrust.org/sewage-map

If you treat your dog or cat or rabbit with a 'spot-on' flea treatment, please read this... & please retweet to spread the word. theconversation.com/pet-flea-and-t…

It's 2 weeks until the Sportfish Spring Spectacular! Find out more 👉 bit.ly/SportfishSprin… ⏰

#sportfish #sportfish springspectacular #flyfishing #fishing #countdown

Our latest phosphate testing evidences 21 times what is recognised as acceptable in a chalk stream & if we compare our results to the aim for high status the abused River Lambourn tested 53 times higher!
These phosphate levels are excessive & must be addressed.
#chalkstream

We bring you birds in turds! 💩 Show on tour part 3:
This morning on the famous 'Bake Off' River Lambourn a mallard & her ducklings swim & feed amongst the grey sewage pollution continually pouring from the Atac unit on Newbury Street, Lambourn.
#chalkstream #pollution

💩 Tour continues, still in Upper Lambourn today, the smell emanating from yet another spewing manhole leaves you in no doubt there's untreated sewage pouring across a public footpath & straight into the River Lambourn.
Address is Fulke Walwyn Way Thames Water 💧
#chalkstream

💩 Show in Upper Lambourn today, yet another another example of ongoing untreated sewage pouring out of manholes across the road, then pouring down a storm drain that will drain directly into the Lambourn.
Thames Water 💧 Environment Agency
#chalkstream

Happy #WorldAquaticAnimalDay A day to bring attention to the importance of aquatic creatures to ecosystems.
Here's one of our favourites, the fabulous cased caddis.
Caddis depend on a healthy river to thrive, they are an important food source for fish and water shrew.

Happy Easter!
The water meadow at our Stonebridge Wild River Reserve, Marlborough is still doing its job holding water and is very wet💦However, get on your wellies to see the fritillaries which are looking 💜
Polite reminder- all dogs on leads please
#conservation #watermeadows

What an utterly brilliant way to present the 2023 sewage dumping data. Just enter you postcode. 👋👋👋

Deserving of an award me thinks.

theguardian.com/environment/ng…

'In the final year of ownership, the Macquarie led consortium shared in a...£157mn windfall as debts rose four-fold to £10bn from £2.3bn.

'The payouts rankled as rates for bill payers surged to pay for fixing faulty pipes & prevent sewage flooding...'

telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…