The last Government didn't fully activate its own law, the Environment Act 2021. The clause to make water companies "secure a progressive reduction in the adverse impacts of discharges from storm overflows" isn't in force. We asked the new Government to do it, they haven't yet.

Not inserting this clause into the Water Industry Act 1991 leaves the law weaker. Doing it would be an easy win for the new Government. Rather than loopholes we need greater control of water companies.

Tonight students taking action on rivers at #Rivershackathon

I’m not closing my account on here, but I am on blue sky too if any of you are I’m the same handle bsky.app/profile/deedee…

English water companies are now showing real-time sewer overflows. As the Environment Act 2021 requires. This is good of course. But are all the unconsented sewers on this new map? Channel4 Dispatches found 100s of sewer pipes "off the books" youtu.be/ilhC5Ekp3eo?si… (5m48s) 1

To make Thames Water put sewer overflows online we used the law. We were the first to cite the clause in the Environmental Info Regs 2004: "make the information available by electronic means...& organize.. with a view to the active and systematic dissemination to the public" 1

Christmas Day walk on the Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path from Burnham Overy Staithe to Wells-next-the-Sea 🌊 🪧 🎄

Good morning and happy #FingerpostFriday 🌅 🪧 Today’s entry is from my Christmas Day walk on the Norfolk Coast Path to Wells-next-the-Sea. Behind the fingerpost is the famous crab-pot Christmas tree 🦀 🎄

Today’s #PostboxSaturday 📮is a local Homerton Victoria - dating it to 1837-1901. As it’s in front of ‘60s flats I thought the original buildings must’ve been bombed in WWII, but I looked it up and a paint factory was on the site but was demolished to make way for social housing.

This day last year at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, AZ. A 1 sq mi park set aside in 1892 to preserve the remains of an Ancestral Sonoran Desert People's community and irrigation system. It was built around 1350 C.E. and abandoned about 1450. An incredible place!

Wow !!!!! Our 100+ Year old family cafe is ranked in the worlds top 100 places to eat Wishing everyone a Happy and Healthy New Year Ric Riscardo Ian Cesay Ian Puddick - Gin Rum Whisky Distiller Joe Flanagan Gary Webster Repton Boxing Club

“My Favourite Camps of 2024” on my new blog - inspired by posts by Chris Townsend, Ash Routen and Sir Twonkalot 🐦. The best nights of the year are always spent camping - here are my highlights 🏕️ thewateriswide.net/blog/my-favour…

Three years ago #OTD the Thames Path National Trail was extended to Woolwich Foot Tunnel & linked with the England Coast Path to create the only Source to Sea National Trail, 374 km, 232 miles! 📷 Dee Dee May 🌲 John Tippetts 🇺🇦 | johnmtippetts.bsky.social Explore Kent Natural England NationalTrails.UK RamblersGB

So much crammed into this part of the Thames. Photo taken from the former Beckton Gas Works, with the Victorian pillars of the coal ship piers in the foreground. To the left Beckton Sewage Works. Towering above it all Barking Creek Barrier on the tidal Roding. 1/2

Fantastic result for rivers. Thank you Fish Legal and Pickering Fishery Association. Every river needs a detailed improvement plan. That the Environment Agency said they didn't was absurd. As the judge said they must "identify a programme or scheme of actions for each water body". Now do it!

Thanks to the Big Give donations to London Waterkeeper will be DOUBLED until midday on Tuesday the 29th April. Please share and spread the word to give a stronger voice to London's rivers! Donate here 🐟 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS… Waterkeeper Alliance

H/t London Waterkeeper 👇🏻

Pleased to announce we have twinned the Bagmati River in Nepal with the Thames. The bond was marked in Kathmandu today at a ceremony to mark Sithi Nakha & a more modest one in London. A partnership between London Waterkeeper & Bagmati River Waterkeeper. 1/2

Cutting sewer overflows with green infrastructure will look a lot like Queen Caroline Estate in West London. Lots of spaces to slow rain so it doesn't overwhelm sewers. It helps cut surface water flood risk in Hammersmith & urban heating. It creates better living spaces too. 1

The River Lea's monitors show how vulnerable it is in the summer. Warm water holds less oxygen but sun boosts photosynthesis. Today's clouds mean less oxygen (the red ovals). We're lucky there wasn't more rain to wash pollution off paved areas. In 2023 thousands of fish died. 1