charles watson
@watsonchas
Founder & Chairman: River Action @riveractionuk Campaigning to Rescue our Rivers from the escalating crisis of agricultural, sewage and industrial pollution
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http://www.riveractionuk.com 09-03-2012 23:48:15
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“Tesco made a £2.3bn profit last year, while 49% of fruit and veg farmers fear they’ll be out of business before the end of this one”
Power (& greed) of big corporate supermarkets is both killing the environment & our ability to sustainably feed ourselves theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
❌“It's a disgrace. We are the dirty man of Europe”
Our Founder and Chair charles watson on BBC Breakfast this morning, after a damning report from OEP watchdog criticises government's water clean-up plans for England. ⬇️
Read more:👉 bbc.co.uk/news/science-e… #RescueBritainsRivers
Fields of filth: Depressing report by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism on the sheer scale of environmental breaches by livestock farms across England. “Routine discharge of slurry and dirty water, maggot-infested carcass bins, illegal incineration of pigs” etc. Ffs. thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-0…
The The Office for Environmental Protection shows the gulf between environmental political promises & action. For 79% of rivers, Government has low or no confidence in its own plans to restore river quality by 2027.
This culture of non-compliance with environment targets must end.
theoep.org.uk/report/oep-fin…
Clearly government cant stop sewage dumping so maybe its time to ask WC shareholders to take a moral stand/understand WCs are going to lose them £ when government changes. Esp UK pension funds. leanahosea Feargal Sharkey Windrush WASP charles watson
'Tourist influx turns Windermere green, researchers say.'
United Utilities say their sewage works can cope with tourist. Is that right? 🤔
Last year UU spent 656,014 hours on 97,537 occasions dumping sewage into the environment. 🤬
bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…
Planted this native hedgerow with pupils from ReadingBlues 16 years ago. Very happy with it. At least a dozen native tree and shrub species thriving and now supports several nesting birds.
'MP and councillors meet with Southern Water and the Environment Agency.'
Oh look for the umpteenth time local MP Caroline Nokes MP wags a finger at Southern Water who clearly don't care one iota.
How many times is that now? How's that working out for you?
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Opening up the oceans for deep-sea mining is one of the “stupidest ideas” imaginable, according to marine biologist Sylvia A. Earle
Story here, podcast coming soon 👇
thetimes.co.uk/article/deep-s…
Another day…
Another disaster unfolds for our failing water industry… ⬇️
Collapse of Southern Water’s underinvested & asset stripped infrastructure leaves tens of thousands without water over bank holiday weekend
😒🙄😠 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
📽️Footage just sent in of the Thames at Putney this morning‼️🤢
The Thames has been turned into a toxic soup of sewage - courtesy of Thames Water 💧, complete regulatory failure and shameful inaction from government. 📷©British Rowing
Feargal Sharkey Steve Backshall James Wallace