Literally just this minute heard about this from my good friend Dr Chris Ferguson
I'm simultaneously sickened and incandescent.
Why??

Today is #WorldRiversDay and we hope you managed to celebrate #RiversWeek ! Take a moment to appreciate the beauty&importance of rivers. They provide us with 🥤, 🐟🦋, and 🏊‍♂️. We are lucky in the @ChilternsAONB to have 9 rare #ChalkStreams : join the movement&share love for rivers

There are thousands of damaged signs like this all over Britain. This one has already been there for weeks. Is this the sign of a declining country…?

The visit was organised by the River Chess Smarter Water Catchment team, funded by Thames Water 💧. We hope that today's visit will provide inspiration for more of this vital work across the country.

Huge thanks to Restore Hope Latimer for their crucial support for our work. 💚2/2

We were delighted to welcome Defra UK minister, Rebecca Pow to the R. Chess today with our partners @buckscouncil, Chiltern Society & local MPs, to showcase how partnership can lead to positive outcomes for our precious #chalkstreams , the environment & local community. 1/2

Out with ChilternChalkStreams Thames Water 💧 Smarter Water Catchment coordinator reviewing some existing and historical ponds in the #RiverChess upper catchment area.
This one is more weed than water!

Bout time! 😁

Last weekend our volunteers were in the #RiverVer , just as they have they have been for nearly 50 years(!), still determined to make the river a #chalkstream to be proud of.

Nice work, Ver Valley Society !

Excellent fruit born from the hard work of colleagues from @chilternsaonb ChilternChalkStreams

#Avebury with Silbury, Martinsell and Milk Hills behind; an amazing finale to the summer walk series as part of our Wessex Airscapes exhibition, which runs at The Wiltshire Museum in Devizes until 15th October. Glyn Coy Anna Dillon Wiltshire Museum Mike Robinson 💙 National Trust

#TombTuesday Entering the remarkable space of West Kennet long barrow... A house for the #Neolithic dead on a grand scale.

Also a testament to the value of the partial reconstruction of a ruined monument following Piggott's 1955-56 excavations - creating a place to visit today

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A fun visit to Dorchester yesterday...it was all marathon hikes and blanking at fishing 😁

The River Wye at Redbrook this week. Any comment Welsh Water? #sewage scandal #sewage #SaveTheWye

This was Lincolnshire earlier this afternoon. It looks like a photo tornado chasers take in the plains States of the US!

A little thrashing the water before leaving Dorset AONB
(No fish were seen, let alone threatened with temporary detainment- net zero, in manner of speaking )

Done.