Simon Jupp MP Ofwat Full force? If so why is so much crap being dumped in our rivers & sea? Or are the laws inadequate, the regulators underfunded and waterways/beaches not checked often enough? Feargal Sharkey Windrush WASP charles watson Surfers Against Sewage

🚨EXCLUSIVE: The *majority* of deadlines issued to farmers in the last four years to improve environmental performance have been missed..

..and over half (thousands) of those actions not completed on time related to water quality 🐔💩🐖

A quick 🧵
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.RiverActionUK's charles watson said the data adds to evidence of 'continuous non-compliance across the sector & worsening pollution of our rivers from diffuse agricultural pollution'. He didn't have kind words for the EA's ‘advisory’ enforcement approach..
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Failing to intervene decisively & letting ⁦⁦⁦Thames Water 💧⁩ die a slow death by a 1000 cuts could prove to be one of this Government’s worse legacies ⬇️

Thames Water collapse could trigger Truss-style borrowing crisis, Whitehall officials fear theguardian.com/business/2024/…

The Wye valley needs every piece of nature that grows to suck up the huge quantities of phosphorus dumped into its soils by industrialised livestock farming. Heartbreaking to then read this ⬇️⬇️
Heineken chops down thousands of apple trees in Monmouthshire bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-…

Our water industry:
💰£78bn dividends stripped out
🤑 £64bn debt burden
🤮Millions of gallons of sewage continuously pumping out
💀major threat to wildlife & human heath
This is clearly a failed industry in need of major surgery

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BREAKING: Family including baby hospitalised by Thames Water 💧 sewage

Does someone have to die for the Environment Agency to enforce the law?

RiverActionUK Feargal Sharkey Laura Farris MP

WE DID IT! 🎉🎉

A HUGE thank you to all of our incredible supporters.
Thanks to your donations, we have exceeded our Big Give target & have raised an amazing £41,629(‼️) to:
👊Empower communities
👊Support citizen scientists
👊Hold polluters & govt to account

Thank you 💙🩵

Thanks to Gavin McEwan for covering this scandal.

Despite raising the alarm with the Environment Agency for months about the most polluted site that we monitor in the Wye catchment - we’re still waiting for action.

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The increasing intensification of dairy production driven by:
⚠️Aggressive supermarket pressures
⚠️Failure to enforce enviro-regulations
⚠️Inadequate incentives for dairy farmers
have created one of the LARGEST causes of UK river pollution
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🚨The failure to enforce environmental regulations are among the main factors that have conspired to create one of the LARGEST causes of UK river pollution. #DairyReport 💩🐄⬇️

📩Download our new report on the dairy industry & river pollution, HERE: 👇 drive.google.com/file/d/1PgytMl…

🚨NEWS: Data revealed by River Action, and seen by ENDS Report, has revealed that 80%‼️ of dairy farms in Wales (and two thirds in England) are in breach of environmental regulations.🤯💩

Read more⬇️ #DairyReport #rescuebritainsrivers
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The Spring = 5 yrs since new housing was banned in nearly half of Herefordshire due to River pollution
It later transpired that new housing was not the cause, nor could it offer the solution - but we are still under a ban
Collateral & futile damage whilst the catchment declines

WARNING☠️ no rain but Thames Water 💧 spills sewage in Aldbourne streets, putting my family & community health at risk

So RiverActionUK is testing how much dangerous E.coli🦠 could get into our homes

But will Environment Agency act on the evidence?!

Feargal Sharkey Steve Backshall

The Mayor of London election will be fought on the banks of the River Thames

With the Thames Water 💧 sewage scandal & record levels of dangerous E.coli, which candidate will win voters trust?

Feargal Sharkey RiverActionUK Steve Backshall Carol Vorderman

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Thrilled to announce my documentary 'RIVER WHARFE A Living Artery' has just been accepted/selected to appear in the Frome International Climate Film Festival to be shown at the festival on the 19th May 2024.
The life in rivers is important, that message will spread in this film.

British milk - £1.06 a litre
Water - £1.20 a litre

Whole chicken - £3.22
Cup of coffee - £3.36

Food can’t be sustainably produced for these prices.

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The results of lax regulation for the last decade or so.

Huge congratulations to Adam Vaughan & and the amazing team at the The Times and The Sunday Times
The #cleanitup campaign has created huge awareness of the crisis facing our rivers this delivering a real public service
👏👏👏

A primary cause of river pollution in rural catchments across pastoral UK. Slurry from dairy farms and indoor livestock. Time for system change. NB I am not a vegetarian nor vegan. Just in case assumptions are made.
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