White Rose Gaia
Save Britain's Rivers
Save Britain's Rivers is a campaign made in collaboration between the New Scientist and the i news.
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New Scientist journalist - Graham Lawton
Many journalists at the i news paper have also reported on the campaign - such as Tom Bawden - "We are drowning in our own effluent".
Our rivers are extremely important to our nation.
Our waterways and associated water systems are extremely important to us - in so many different ways. One way to consider this is the "value" of water in the natural assets of this nation. According to the Office for National Statistics, water abstraction is the second most valuable asset after our food - ie agricultural bio mass.
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NYCC - North Yorkshire County Council
I have created an ePetition on the NYCC website:
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and Cllr Andy Brown has already asked the leader of the council about river pollution:
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As North Yorkshire Council is a major customer of both Yorkshire Water and Northumberland Water would the Leader of North Yorkshire Council please write to the owners of those companies making it clear we are not satisfied with the amount of sewage that they put in our streams and rivers the figures speak for themselves and are really what we expect in for our residents.
As North Yorkshire Council is a major customer of both Yorkshire Water and Northumberland Water would the Leader of North Yorkshire Council please write to the owners of those companies making it clear that we do not expect to pay large bills only to discover that sewage is being routinely released into our local rivers and the rules about only doing so during exceptional weather are being regularly flouted. Could they provide us with an assurance that they will reduce the amount of sewage considerably by investing in infrastructure that will allow them to keep our rivers and stream to recover from the sewage that they have put in them comply with the law and only release untreated sewage in genuinely rare and exceptional weather conditions when the system is at risk of severe overload.
The full message thread can be seen here