The Rivers Trust statement on sewage treatment investigation
The Rivers Trust’ s Michelle Walker, Deputy Technical Director, provides comment on the Government announcement of investigation into sewage treatment works. We welcome this long-overdue step up in enforcement of existing law by the regulators, provided it is...
COP26: The tipping point?
The impacts of climate change are growing and time is running out. We can take collective action, but it needs strong leadership, explains our CEO Dr Laurence Couldrick. In 2015 in Paris, several countries of the world came together to agree collective action, but we...
River Health – less of a stink?
It is good news today to hear that the Government has now included an amendment to address sewage pollution in the Environment Bill. Only yesterday we were concerned the original proposal had been stripped out of the bill. It seems pressure from the river movement and...