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We’ve found a way to help endangered eels overcome dams and weirs

The European eel Anguilla anguilla, a sleek, snake-like fish with a fascinating life cycle, once teemed in rivers. But their numbers have plummeted by over 95% since the 1980s.

The Conversation

Dirty waters: how the Environment Agency lost its way

The long read: Having created a watchdog for the environment, the government took its teeth out and muzzled it. Can public outrage rouse the Environment Agency to action?

The Guardian - UK

Protect Windermere from sewage, campaigners urge UK party leaders

Open letter signed by naturalist Chris Packham and comedian Paul Whitehouse says pollution is degrading lake

The Guardian - UK

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Planned megafarm could make river as ‘filthy’ as Wye, Norfolk residents claim

Plans by Cranswick for scheme involving millions of chickens and pigs would kill wildlife in waterway, opponents say

The Independent UK

Work to clean up polluted wild swimming spots in jeopardy, campaigners say

Pressure groups warn of lengthy delays to river clean ups due to government red tape

Advnture

Bids for bathing water status in England paused in blow for river cleanups

Campaigners suspect block on new applications for at least two years was imposed to limit burden on water firms

The Guardian - UK

Sewage pumped into river in picturesque Chilterns village for five consecutive days

Exclusive: Sewage discharged into brook feeding Ouzel river on the edge of Chiltern Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

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Environment Agency chief admits regulator buries freedom of information requests

Speaking at the UK River Summit, Philip Duffy said officials do not want to reveal the true ‘embarrassing’ environmental picture

The Guardian - UK

Flooding blocks London to Scotland train line as 'danger to life' weather warning issued

Yellow and amber warnings for rain remain in place across the UK on Thursday

Evening Standard

Reducing sewage in rivers and seas is public health priority, says Chris Whitty

England’s chief medical officer says 19th-century wastewater system ended cholera outbreaks and calls for similar focus now

The Guardian - UK

Fish deaths in England’s rivers rise tenfold in four years

More than 216,000 fish died in 2022-2023, when England recorded a 54% increase in sewage spills

The Guardian - UK

Sewage alerts across UK mapped after ‘millions’ of litres dumped into Lake Windermere beauty spot

Raw sewage was pumped into the Unesco world heritage site for nearly 10 hours in February

The Independent UK

England gets 27 new bathing sites – but no guarantee they’ll be safe for swimming

Water campaigner Feargal Sharkey says newly designated sites will join ‘ignoble, floundering list of failure’

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Britain’s dirty waterways: a failure of industry and regulation

Editorial: Fresh warnings about polluted rivers from the environment watchdog are shocking but not surprising

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Northumbrian Water told to publish raw sewage discharge data it tried to hide

Appeal tribunal orders firm to share details on hundreds of thousands of tonnes of outflows into North Sea

The Guardian - UK

How the overseas owners of the UK’s water companies clean up by polluting our rivers

Soiled seas and huge dividends: where has the £64bn borrowed by firms since privatisation gone, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Evening Standard

How climate change will transform London: a guide to the city in 10, 50 and 100 years

From flooding, drought and disease to total societal upheaval, Robbie Griffiths investigates the grim future that awaits our capital if global warming is allowed to continue

Advnture

"We're not responsible for telling you whether you can swim in the rivers or not" - shocking message from water company polluting a world-famous river

Water company on the defensive after discharging dangerous levels of waste into the Thames

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‘Working with the landscape is a more sensible way of managing our rivers’: should we dismantle the UK’s dams?

Removing dams, weirs and culverts on waterways is hugely beneficial to wildlife and the environment – but there may be risks in a densely populated, flood-prone country

The Guardian - UK

‘Awful’: climate crisis threatens to sink historic north-east golf club

Saving Alnmouth from rising seas and coastal erosion complicated by links course being on private land

The Guardian - UK

Water companies in England face outrage over record sewage discharges

Call for environmental emergency to be declared after data reveals 105% rise in raw sewage discharges over past 12 months

Evening Standard

Sewage spills from storm overflows jumped by 54% in 2023, figures reveal

Storm overflows dumped untreated sewage into rivers and seas for 3.6m hours last year

The Guardian - UK

Boat Race organisers warn rowers not to enter water after E coli discovery

Boat Race organisers have issued new safety guidance for the race on Saturday, warning rowers not to enter the water and to cover any open wounds

The Guardian - UK

4m hours of raw sewage discharges in England in 2023, data expected to show

Exclusive: Environment Agency figures to be released on Wednesday to reveal 129% increase in total discharges on previous 12 months

The Guardian - UK

Steve Barclay apologises for not recusing himself sooner from incinerator decision

Environment secretary opposed waste plant plans that must be approved by body he oversees

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