‘Chemical cocktail’ of sewage, slurry and plastic polluting English rivers puts public health and nature at risk
Date published:
January 13, 2022
Poor water quality in English rivers is a result of chronic underinvestment and multiple failures in monitoring, governance and enforcement, the Environmental Audit Committee warnsOnly 14% of English rivers meet good ecological status, with pollution from agriculture, sewage, roads and single-use plastics contributing to a dangerous ‘chemical cocktail’ coursing through our waterways. Not a single river in England has received a clean bill of health for chemical contamination.Read the full report and related articles
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