Ahhh... all those toxic chemicals that are in the tyre dust ... and waste tyres.

And waste tyres are ground into rubber crumb and dust and spread on artificial grass for your children to play on. Can you believe that our government and sports organisations all know that these…

Toxic heavy metals, arsenic & carcinogenic PAHs enter rivers in road runoff & flow downriver, accumulating in estuaries, harming invertebrates, shellfish, eels, fish, birds, mammals that make up a rich estuarine ecosystem. Report by Stormwater Shepherds👇🏽

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Making decisions about how much harm has been inflicted based on how many people hired lawyers feels like distorted reasoning anywhere - but in a place where many could not afford lawyers, it lays bare just how inequitable the system really is.

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Rain gardens also slow the flow of water into drains, so the combined sewage system doesn't get overwhelmed as often, & fewer sewage discharges & floods occur; any area of green helps cool towns & cities in the summer. They need maintenance, which creates jobs.

Head of EA, Philip Duffy, wrote that, without his clever strategy of selective reporting, 'the number of poor bathing waters in England would have almost doubled'.

Not so smart to write that down and circulate it though, was it, Phil?

His reason, he wrote, was that Terese Coffey was upset by the 'negative narrative' from campaigners & press. Apparently, the head of the EA felt his job to be less about addressing pollution & more about creating 'a macro-narrative of an upward trend in bathing water quality'.

Ah yes, govt fail to deliver yet again on another environmental commitment.

'The problem is not that the government is hostile to the environment, it is that you, our prime minister, are simply uninterested.'

Extraordinary podcast from Water Watch Radio - permits to extract water from Murray-Darling floodplain, Australia, for cotton & almond farms awarded seemingly very unequally, at the expense people downriver, in a country where there's not a drop to spare.

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Road runoff enters rivers directly at highway outfalls. It also goes into combined sewage systems via drains. When sewage is discharged into rivers, as well as human waste, it may contain arsenic, heavy metals & PAHs from roads. A double hit for wildlife.

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As those in authority suggest the harm people have incurred from lead exposure in Flint is less severe than residents claim, a reminder that numerous studies link lead to significant health conditions. Podcast out now 👇

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People in Flint, poisoned by lead exposure & left with long term health conditions due to a State austerity measure, have to pay for their healthcare. Many still lack clean drinking water, but they're paying some of the highest water bills in the US.

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Flint water crisis: new podcast out now
10 years on, many in Flint still don't have clean drinking water, people suffer lasting effects of lead exposure, mourn those they lost to Leigionella infection, & doubt if they'll ever see justice.

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✊60 civil society organisations have signed a joint statement urging the The EBRD to enhance its human rights due diligence!
The latest draft of the EBRD’s updated safeguards fails to ensure human rights are respected & protected.
Join our call! #EBRDam
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Got some footage this morning, try to ignore my noisy old camera😅
Someone asked me recently how close can boxes be fitted?
This little cluster of boxes shows how close some of my entrances are, aprox 20cm apart, with all bar the bottom left nest occupied. # #DealSwifts

'Major cities such as Bengaluru, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad & dozens of smaller cities are facing severe drinking water shortages. Almost the whole of peninsular India is reeling under heat waves, with temperatures hovering around 40–44°C'(104°F-111°F)
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And the big 5 UK banks financed over $550bn of it 😡​

Barclays UK, HSBC UK, Santander UK, Lloyds Bank and NatWest are grossly profiting from the climate crisis by continuing to pump £££ into oil and gas expanders 💰

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Toxic heavy metals, arsenic & carcinogenic PAHs enter rivers in road runoff & flow downriver, accumulating in estuaries, harming invertebrates, shellfish, eels, fish, birds, mammals that make up a rich estuarine ecosystem. Report by Stormwater Shepherds👇🏽

stormwatershepherds.org.uk/2024/05/08/bol…

Lead was eliminated from petrol years ago but Stormwater Shepherds found it in road runoff at several sites. Even low levels of lead may harm tadpoles, frogs & fish. (Taddlers below are nowhere near a road.🐸)
New report by @ciwem & Stormwater Shepherds👇🏽
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So much rain fell last night & lots more is expected today.
Please take time to plan what you'd move first if you thought you might flood.

Last month we delivered our Asks to Members of European Parliament calling on them to stand up for EU citizens and instruct the next European Commission to tackle #chemical pollution.

Read our 3 asks 👉 buff.ly/4auW4PP

#ToxicFreeFuture