A fuller report on the destructive intensive dairy industry here Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru | Natural Resources Wales Welsh Government Climate Change Welsh Government Rural Affairs Huw Irranca-Davies Steve Ormerod 💙 (•_•) Prof Calvin Jones Helen Pittaway Geraint Davies 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Lip service or committed outcomes?
What will your legacy be in your important roles?

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Are you paying attention Senedd Climate Huw Irranca-Davies Llyr Gruffydd AS/MS Vaughan Gething 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru | Natural Resources Wales
It’s dire but so many opportunities for us to lead. Are you up for it?

Some really good skilled people in the The Rivers Trust movement.
But is this it?
The whole Rivers Trust Movement needs to reset its “ambition” & spell it out exactly what their accountable outcomes are.
Thoughts
RiverActionUK watershed_investigations ?

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It's a condition of every WCs operating licence that they will not pay a dividend if that would in any 'impair the ability of the company to finance', the water and sewage business.

£7bn in dividends, a company tittering on the brink of bankruptcy, and Ofwat does what exactly?

Major ongoing pollution incident on the River Wye being repeatedly reported by local citizen scientists - and guess where the Environment Agency are❓
That’s right - nowhere to be seen…
😡🤬🤯

This is a video of a brook as it passes alongside a maize field.👇

The first discharge is water coming from a land drain, and the second is from overland flows.

The colour changes from clear to murky brown with all the additional sediment.

A short 🧵 about maize 🌽

WelshRiversUnion QUANTUM Freshwaters Sydney Enns Ana Castro-Castellon, D.Phil Davey Jones Bangor University FreshwaterQuality Natural Environment Research Council It is. We need an intact ecosystem atm to be able to detect the effects of our experimental treatments. In 2025, we will be sampling 60 more contaminated streams, to see if the same livestock-derived contaminant profiles and impacts occur there. Upscaling! Visits welcome.

Oh, Penny Johnes QUANTUM Freshwaters & FreshwaterQuality will have a field day here!

Team QUANTUM Freshwaters enjoying a 2nd day setting up equipment for their stream dosing experiment.

They are one of 5 projects in our UK Freshwater Quality programme examining different aspects of pollution in rivers

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When it comes to phosphorus pollution, Wales’s two worst performing SAC rivers are often overlooked.

And in a week where the latest storm overflow data was released, attention is frequently diverted away from the biggest contributors to water quality problems in Wales.

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When will the EA enforce the law?

The River Wye’s official status is now ‘declining’.

The next stage is ‘part-destroyed’.

What are they waiting for?

James Jackson Jessica McQuade Nonsense!
Plenty of money!
Guaranteed income for the next 1000 years.*
You couldn’t ask for a better investment model.
If we are serious about fixing it, it will never be cheaper than if we start the fix this afternoon.
*maybe shittin’, peein’ & drinkin’ will go out of fashion?

You sitting down?

4,014,964 hours worth of sewage dumped into England’s rivers in 2023. An all time record. A massive 129% increase on 2022.

Exclusive by those fantastic people at the The Guardian

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Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru | Natural Resources Wales ref the below can you please define “dry weather flow”?

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Would you like to do an article on the issues that this industrial gunk is causing, from families and communities in West Africa to the trashing of our home environment & rivers.
Bad unbalanced journalism does such harm, correct this story.

And don't think you are coming to Wales for it!
Huw Irranca-Davies
Our rivers hitting new summer lows constantly.

Soil Association
Wait til you get around to spelling out the impact of the industrial Intensive dairy business in Wales.
Trashed Tâf, Cleddau, Cowyn,Towy, Usk, Olway, Dee,Teifi & dozens of tributaries.
#Slurry #Maize #Glyphosate
#SalmonSewinExtinction #RegulationAbandonment

🚨British rivers at risk of becoming 'dead zones' due to chicken pollution, analysis shows

Analysis by Soil Association shows UK poultry populations rising at a rate of one million birds per month for the past ten years .. 🧵1/2 itv.com/news/2024-03-1…

Together with Coastal Communities Network (CCN) we've submitted a legal complaint to Environmental Standards Scotland over Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)
failure to protect endangered wild salmon from sea lice – identified by IUCN as of “great concern” and a notable risk to wild Atlantic salmon.

Learn more 👇

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The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) could be facing an official investigation into allegations that it has failed to prevent sea lice escaping from fish farms and killing wild salmon.

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