Howard Taylor
@upstreamdry
Finest chalk stream fly fishing. owner upstreamdryfly. Conservation Biologist. Fly fishing guide. Sage fly fishing. Hunter gatherer, forager, cook and wine-o.
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http://www.upstreamdryfly.com 27-10-2012 22:47:58
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        It’s official: the sewage industry is twice as sh💩t as it was in 2022 2023 data from Environment Agency shows 4 MILLION hours of raw sewage spilled in OUR rivers 129% ⬆️ Bet they blame the rain Feargal Sharkey Windrush WASP RiverActionUK Jenny Jones theguardian.com/business/2024/…
        'In the final year of ownership, the Macquarie led consortium shared in a...£157mn windfall as debts rose four-fold to £10bn from £2.3bn. 'The payouts rankled as rates for bill payers surged to pay for fixing faulty pipes & prevent sewage flooding...' telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…
        We 🧜♀️ swam in our beautiful Thames this morning, She is visibly dying, suffocating in a sea of shit. Her once babbling, clear waters are dull, murky and drawn. Her wildlife endangered or beleaguered. ALL FOR PROFIT. British Rowing RiverActionUK Ocean Rebellion River & Rowing Museum
                        
                    
                    
                    
                
        
        A nice relaxing Easter Sunday with Southern Water in our little village. A few days ago the SW CEO said the Fullerton sewage works was only treating the volume the Environment Agency told them to treat, so he had turned up capacity. The discharge to #rivertest remains sh1t 🤬
        
        
        "Chinese state banks are lenders to Thames Water’s parent company." So not only does the Chinese govt already own a stake in Thames Water 💧 it appears two Chinese govt owned banks are about to acquire another chunk. ft.com/content/79b730…
        
        
        
        
        Sick of the #SewageScandal 💩 I’ll be joining RiverActionUK Feargal Sharkey Jenny Jones Liz Bonnin 💙 & thousands of campaigners at the March for Clean Water in London on 3rd November. Take action! Join us! 🫵
        Great to see our new paper Nature Water on the greenwashing and disinformation strategies used by water companies to manufacture doubt and deflect blame for sewage pollution covered The Mill mollie simpson — you can download the paper here nature.com/articles/s4422…
                        
                    
                    
                    
                
        Tomorrow Jesse Norman will introduce a Ten Minute Rule Bill titled the River Wye (Cleaning) Bill. It would require the Secretary of State to publish and implement a plan for cleaning and improving the water quality of the River Wye.
        
        BREAKING: Court of Appeal judgment handed down today in our nationally important river case with Pickering Fishery Association against Defra UK and Environment Agency. WE WON (again)! Government's appeal comprehensively dismissed. The ruling sets out exactly what Steve Reed MP needs to do to
                        
                    
                    
                    
                
        This is the Lower river Test, SSSI, SPA, SAC yesterday with #chemcalpollution from the Southern Water owned outfall from Nursling Industrial Estate Right in the salmon migration Environment Agency Angling Trust Fish Legal Southern Water RiverActionUK Feargal Sharkey Activist Anglers