We were promised privatisation would deliver caviar and champagne yet all we got was Spam and yesterday's cold leftover rice.

Today's @Guardian editorial 'Water is far too important an issue to be kicked down the road – or flushed into the sewer.'

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

No surprises here ⬇️
NFU identified 9 pieces of EU legislation as “priorities for replacement”, incl. 3 directives affecting water: nitrate pollution, pesticide approvals & the Water Framework Directive, the central plank of European water protection
😡🤬 theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Excellent article 👇
'if Heineken were to raise the % of juice in their cider they wouldn’t need to destroy hundreds of acres of apple trees. .they could lead the way in the planting & conserving of many more trees.. champions of these bountiful biodiverse habitats' Heineken?

“The public interest in clean, abundant water has been placed second to the acquisition of wealth”

“Greater efficiency, driven by competition, was the false promise of water industry privatisation. Instead, vast profits have been extracted by owners”
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theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“Tesco made a £2.3bn profit last year, while 49% of fruit and veg farmers fear they’ll be out of business before the end of this one”
Power (& greed) of big corporate supermarkets is both killing the environment & our ability to sustainably feed ourselves theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

🚨 Environmental watchdog slams government's failure to deliver laws on water quality ITV News

Shocking findings reveal the government is set to miss its clean up goal for our rivers and seas by a 'large margin', according to the OEP watchdog.

River Action's response ⬇️

❌“It's a disgrace. We are the dirty man of Europe”

Our Founder and Chair charles watson on BBC Breakfast this morning, after a damning report from OEP watchdog criticises government's water clean-up plans for England. ⬇️

Read more:👉 bbc.co.uk/news/science-e… #RescueBritainsRivers

Fields of filth: Depressing report by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism on the sheer scale of environmental breaches by livestock farms across England. “Routine discharge of slurry and dirty water, maggot-infested carcass bins, illegal incineration of pigs” etc. Ffs. thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-0…

The The Office for Environmental Protection shows the gulf between environmental political promises & action. For 79% of rivers, Government has low or no confidence in its own plans to restore river quality by 2027.

This culture of non-compliance with environment targets must end.

theoep.org.uk/report/oep-fin…

A damning vote of no confidence in ⁦Defra UK⁩’s ability to deliver on its legal obligations to bring the majority of our water bodies to good ecological condition by 2027.
❌No plan
❌No timetable
❌No funding
Essential reading from the OEP ⬇️
theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Not even foraging is safe from E.coli infection caused by sewage dumping 😥

Marlborough foragers warned of 'toxic' garlic after flooding - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Clearly government cant stop sewage dumping so maybe its time to ask WC shareholders to take a moral stand/understand WCs are going to lose them £ when government changes. Esp UK pension funds. leanahosea Feargal Sharkey Windrush WASP charles watson

'Tourist influx turns Windermere green, researchers say.'

United Utilities say their sewage works can cope with tourist. Is that right? 🤔

Last year UU spent 656,014 hours on 97,537 occasions dumping sewage into the environment. 🤬

bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

Everywhere, the environment being murdered for the sake of corporate profit
💀😣💀😡💀🤬💀

Planted this native hedgerow with pupils from ReadingBlues 16 years ago. Very happy with it. At least a dozen native tree and shrub species thriving and now supports several nesting birds.

'MP and councillors meet with Southern Water and the Environment Agency.'

Oh look for the umpteenth time local MP Caroline Nokes MP wags a finger at Southern Water who clearly don't care one iota.

How many times is that now? How's that working out for you?

andoveradvertiser.co.uk/news/24297457.…

Opening up the oceans for deep-sea mining is one of the “stupidest ideas” imaginable, according to marine biologist Sylvia A. Earle

Story here, podcast coming soon 👇
thetimes.co.uk/article/deep-s…

A brilliant assessment of Defra UK’s Wye Action Plan by our friends Save The Wye Coalition ⬇️
It is in fact an In-Action Plan
❌No new money 🤷🏻‍♂️
❌ No targets 😫
❌ No pay/staff/resources for the “Wye Champion” 😂
❌ No initiatives to reduce 🐓pollution in the catchment 😡
❌ No Welsh…

Another day…
Another disaster unfolds for our failing water industry… ⬇️
Collapse of ⁦Southern Water⁩’s underinvested & asset stripped infrastructure leaves tens of thousands without water over bank holiday weekend
😒🙄😠 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

📽️Footage just sent in of the Thames at Putney this morning‼️🤢

The Thames has been turned into a toxic soup of sewage - courtesy of Thames Water 💧, complete regulatory failure and shameful inaction from government. 📷©British Rowing

Feargal Sharkey Steve Backshall James Wallace