Warming, shrunken rivers - oxygen low, pollution concentrated, bacteria multiply, fish struggle - as @petedevery.bsky.social of @anglingtrust.bsky.social tells BBC Berkshire, pumping too much water, pollution, tearing out shade-giving plants weakens rivers. Then climate change deals the final blow.

England’s rivers ‘under threat’ as water extraction surges to record levels Exclusive: Investigation finds 76% rise in water taken from rivers and lakes for industrial or public consumption in two decades

"Depleted & polluted, rivers that were once abundant in fish, invertebrates, mammals & birds turn into a line of fetid pools”

River campaigners, furious at the failure of successive to prepare for water scarcity, speak to Watershed's @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social

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Brilliant news 👏👏👏Sandeels, the basis of so many food chains, need to remain in the sea not be harvested out of existence to feed farmed fish & animals. A win for seabirds. A win for fish. And definitely a bonus for the sandeels themselves. Fabulous.

@petedevery.bsky.social @stuartsw.bsky.social

Britain’s favourite fish at risk of wipeout within decades, predicts report Brown trout unlikely to survive in most rivers at height of summer by 2080, says Environment Agency

Just 55 years before #climate change makes up to 70% of #England’s rivers too hot for #trout to spawn 👀
@wildtrout.bsky.social @troutunlimited.bsky.social
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Are Keir Starmer and Donald Trump singing from the same #nature destruction manual when it comes to fish conservation? Certainly sounds like it ⬇️ #AnglersAgainstPollution #angling #salmon #conservation

Are Keir Starmer and Donald Trump singing from the same #nature destruction manual when it comes to fish conservation? Certainly sounds like it ⬇️ #AnglersAgainstPollution #angling #salmon #conservation

‘Appalling’: charities warn of UK government betrayal over river clean-up fund Charities in England that bid for share of millions say idea that Treasury could keep money is ‘heartbreaking’

If HMTreasury drop this fundamental & hugely important approach, ensuring fines for polluting our rivers are invested in clearing up the mess, then it will be a huge act of betrayal. See my quote here. @anglingtrust.bsky.social @theriverstrust.bsky.social

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If you fancy learning how to waste your time gracefully, with a fly, lure or bait, lots more info on: anglingtrust.net #angling #fishing #trout #carp #bass

How I learned to fly-fish on the banks of the Thames A fly-fishing session in London strips the pastime of its elite connotations and delivers an object lesson in mindfulness Fishing has been one of those things, like pottery classes, or going on a yoga retreat in Ibiza, that I’ve never tried but envied…

How I learned to fly-fish on the banks of the Thames

Labour shelves rescue plan for globally rare chalk streams Protection of habitat featured in David Attenborough’s Wild Isles had been promised under the Tories

Labour shelves rescue plan for globally rare chalk streams

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Merry Christmas 🎄

Record sewage spills and financial mismanagement = whopping price rises.

⬇️ And today the government has approved a 35% increase in your water bills to fund this fraudulent and criminally polluting Thames Water for another five years ⬇️ www.itv.com/news/meridia...

Positioning statement on the impact of sewage pollution

Water Co investment focuses too much on BIG rivers and improving large STWs. A top-down approach is needed: upgrade small sewage works, restore headwaters and add NFM upstream for clean water downstream. Start in top catchments for MAX impact on recovery! freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/news/positio...

Watchdog warns Defra and Ofwat they could face court over sewage dumping Environment Agency also served notice after investigation found failures to comply with law

All we ask is for water companies to follow the law and for regulators to enforce the law. Is that really too much to ask? It seems so. @petedevery.bsky.social @theguardian.com

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Water customers face huge bill this Christmas 'A higher water bill is the Christmas present nobody asked for.'

Why should 6 million households in the Thames Water region be FORCED to pay £260 extra a year to keep this absurd company afloat for a little longer?

This is daylight robbery 🤑 don't let them get away with it

Sign the petition weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...

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Thames Water reports first-half loss of £189m Pollution penalties, payouts to external consultants and losses on inter-company loans deepened the struggling utility’s debt burden

Special case? More like basket case. £51m on advisors & consultants in 6 months, no wonder Thames Water saw first-half loss of £189m. At that rate it will only take 10 years to burn through £3.5 billion they need to raise.
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Thames Water will run out of cash by March without £3bn emergency funding Britain’s biggest water supplier reports 40% increase in pollution incidents, blaming a wet spring and summer

Chasing down billion$ more debt to finance Britain’s biggest water company month by month, the deluded CEO describes it as getting on a “more stable financial footing”. Tick tock, timberrrr! www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Customers set to pay for new sewage pipelines - BBC News Water companies are to spend billions of pounds of consumers' money building new pipelines.

This plan is so ridiculous I can't believe I'm about to write these words - water companies want to build pipelines to divert sewage away from protected rivers to... other rivers & lakes with fewer legal protections...& they want to raise our bills to pay for it...

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Dear #NigelSlater farmed salmon isn’t sophisticated. Take it #offthetable www.theguardian.com/food/2024/de...

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Even 71% of Sunday Times readers think our water industry should be renationalised.

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No.

Angler, spelled p-e-d-a-n-t.

That’s a garfish the tuna is chasing in the pic.

‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’

“Enshittification” is a great word of the year for 2024. Inclusion in the Macquarie dictionary is the icing on the cherry on the turd. 💩 #endsewagepollution www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’

“Enshittification” is a great word of the year for 2024. Inclusion in the Macquarie dictionary is the icing on the cherry on the turd. 💩 #endsewagepollution www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

Water companies now have to release live sewage spill data – here’s why more transparency is the key to cleaner rivers A new law is forcing water companies to make pollution data readily accessible to the general public - but it doesn’t go far enough.

I'm in The Conversation discussing the new release of nationwide sewage spill data in the wider context of open data, open models and environmental transparency. 1/n #opendata 🧪

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Ofwat puts record 10 water companies on financial watch list Thames Water most at risk according to regulator’s latest financial resilience report

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Christmas sewage lights going on early