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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Citizen science testing last year at River Thames near Kennington, Oxfordshire between Sandford Lock and Iffley Lock. The results from the summer of 2022, viewed by Thames21 and published by the Environment Agency, indicate that both E Coli and Intestinal Enterococci are present at levels higher than it is safe to swim in.

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MAY 2, 2024

Retention ponds and wetlands constructed as part of major road schemes can reduce the quantities of tyre particles entering the aquatic environment by an average of 75%, new research appears to show. This finding suggests that existing features of the road network can halt their flow into rivers and seas. Easy come, easy go?

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MAY 31, 2023

Canoeists on the River Wye, Builth Wells Bridge, Powys, Wales. Conservation charity The Wildlife Trusts said it is deeply concerned that the River Wye’s official status has been downgraded to ‘unfavourable-declining’, by the Government’s advisor, Natural England (on 30 May).

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JUNE 15, 2022

Proposals to create 26 new treatment wetlands across the East of England are part of a new wetlands programme from Anglian Water, which the utility says will help protect rivers and some of the much-loved chalk stream habitats in the East of England. The initiative has been welcomed by conservation group The Rivers Trust.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The UK government will invest £25 million in projects that use nature to protect communities from flooding, Environment Minister Rebecca Pow announced on 22 September. Environment Minister Rebecca Pow said: “Nature is an essential weapon in our armoury against flooding. A flooded riverbank in Windsor. billion flood programme.

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APRIL 5, 2024

Deed license ) The first study of toxic “forever chemicals” along the full length of Asia’s longest river, the Yangtze, has found 13 different types of PFAS, nearly half of them coming from textile treatments and food packaging. He says, “We are still very much understanding the spread and impact of PFAS on the environment.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

A new online tool highlights where opportunities exist to install nature-based solutions, such as wetlands, to tackle road runoff pollution before it ends up in London’s rivers. The seriousness of UK river pollution has come to widespread notice, especially in the last couple of years. It has gone live today (16 October 2023).

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

The River Waveney in Norfolk is one of the three targeted by the support package. The first locations include the River Cam south of Cambridge, the River Deben at Woodbridge and the River Waveney in Bungay. In partnership with local wild swimming and river groups, water sampling and data collection is now underway.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Research by the Oxford Rivers Project, a campaign to end sewage pollution in the Upper Thames, apparently found that in relatively dry months (March, April, July, and August) levels of harmful bacteria were low enough for the water quality to be considered ‘good’ or even ‘excellent’. CC BY-NC 2.0

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JUNE 5, 2023

The research seemed to highlight strong links between the degree of urbanisation in the river catchment and observed river microplastic concentrations. Published in Water Research , the research highlights the impact of water management in terms of river diversions for irrigation purposes on microplastic transport.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

New laws will scrap the cap on civil penalties and significantly broaden their scope to target a much wider range of environmental offences On 15 August the Environment Agency launched a consultation on changes to variable monetary penalties – financial penalties that can be imposed for certain environmental offences.

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MAY 5, 2023

Near-real time alerts of raw sewage discharges have been added to the interactive Sewage Map provided by charity The Rivers Trust, and the group is now calling for all water companies to make this kind of data publicly available.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) says it is continuing its efforts to restore nature to Scotland’s rivers with the completion of two more projects. In a changing climate, it is more important than ever that we preserve, manage and improve Scotland’s water environment.

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JULY 3, 2023

The charity’s new # Pennywort Alert scheme, in partnership with the Environment Agency, is supporting efforts to tackle damaging floating pennywort , which has spread rapidly into UK waterways since it was introduced into this country from America in the 1980s as an ornamental garden pond plant.

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JUNE 1, 2023

Three river sensors have been installed on the Seven Kings Water River, which flows through Westwood Recreation Ground, to monitor the height of the river in various places. The community-based Flood Awareness Roadshows take place throughout June and the first week of July.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2021

River charity Thames21 has released data showing a mound created by wet wipes, which has grown to the size of two tennis courts and over a metre tall in the past six years. We are fully supportive of removing plastic from wet wipes and look forward to the day when the river is free from this pollution.”.

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JULY 3, 2023

On Wednesday 5 to Thursday 6 July, the High Court will hear a legal challenge that aims to force the Government to toughen up its plan for reducing sewage dumped in England’s rivers and seas. But according to the Environment Agency , these overflows are now used on a routine basis. million hours.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

Civil engineering specialist Land & Water has completed two new projects on the Somerset Levels, intended to reduce flood risk and improve the environment. It will be used by the Environment Agency to help move water around the Somerset Levels for the benefit of homeowners, businesses, farmers and wildlife.

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MARCH 28, 2023

Renowned for crystal clear water and trout fishing, the rivers Test and Itchen are two of the world’s most famous chalk streams. The River Itchen. Both rivers drain into Southampton Water, and in turn, into the Solen’t. The instrumentation firm behind it, Meteor Communications, explains.

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JULY 25, 2023

“We did not anticipate such profound results, it opens a new chapter of unknowns regarding how plastic pollution is affecting our rivers and landscapes,” said Dr Russell, who is a Fulbright-Lloyd’s of London Scholar and an Honorary Fellow in Leicester’s School of Geography, Geology, and the Environment.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

The state’s premier, Steven Miles , will on Friday announce new environmental regulations for the basin, which is among the world’s last unaltered river systems. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Backwards Sky Ranch House by Clayton Korte is embedded into a beautiful landscape, extending from the Dry Frio River in Hill Country, Central Texas, down south to a vast meadow.

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APRIL 12, 2022

A stretch of the River Thames at Port Meadow, Oxford, has been designated as an official river bathing location after a nearly two-year long local battle against sewage pollution. Claire Robertson, Oxford Rivers Project Officer at Thames21, said: “I’m overjoyed this designation is going ahead. CC BY-NC 2.0

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JANUARY 13, 2023

mile tributatory of the River Brent. The partnership project has been developed in collaboration with environmental charity Thames21, Barnet Council, Harrow Council, Thames Water, Environment Agency, Metis (flood risk consultants), and Lumby Consultancy (evaluation specialist).

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JULY 27, 2022

The Serpentine is monitored by the Environment Agency which collects samples for bacteriological analysis every week between May and September. Originally fed by the River Westbourne and Tyburn Brook in the 1730s, the lake’s water was later pumped from the River Thames. The Serpentine ESNET location.

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MAY 9, 2022

Following a major pollution incident in late March that caused a catastrophic fish kill in the Ballinderry River in Northern Ireland, The Rivers Trust has called on all farmers across the UK and Ireland to urgently check their equipment to prevent further incidents elsewhere.

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JUNE 13, 2024

A new continuous metals monitoring technology was recently trialled at a river by a Talc production plant in central Finland. Continuous measurement of Nickel with rainfall and river flow. The transportable monitoring equipment.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

Nutrient runoff into rivers and lakes—from phosphorus and nitrogen in fertilizers, manure, animal feed, and more—has affected water quality for decades. Increased rain-on-snow, snowmelt, and rainfall events now carry nutrients and soil into streams and rivers during winter when dormant vegetation cannot absorb them.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

The culvert carries the River Lemon under the dual carriageway but following studies by the Environment Agency and environmental charity Westcountry Rivers Trust, it was found that fish were unable to navigate the culvert to reach their traditional spawning grounds.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

The contract, announced in November, is part of ongoing technical assistance provided by the World Bank to the Romanian Ministry of Environment, Water and Forests, and will aid efforts to help the country meet the requirements of the EU Floods Directive 2007/60/EC. The post Flood mapping in the East first appeared on Envirotec.

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JULY 19, 2021

The rise of citizen science is placing increasing pressure on water companies to improve their environmental performance and protect river and bathing water quality. Those who have responsibility for managing water need to be aware – it is not going to go away.

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MARCH 21, 2023

Access is open to anyone, from the public at large, to academics, consultants, government departments and regulators, aquatic and environmental specialists, local community groups and river partnerships. CIP is the UK water industry’s response to current and emerging legislation on trace substances in the water environment.

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

A research team, led by the University of Exeter, has carried out what is said to be the most comprehensive assessment of risks posed by antibiotics in the environment in the UK to date, published in September in the journal Environment International. Elevated levels of antibiotic resistance pose a greater threat to human health.

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MAY 9, 2022

More data is becoming available to help with understanding why so much sewage is being spilled in UK rivers, and fascinating efforts are underway to interpret it and present it to the public in an accessible and transparent format. Envirotec reviews the latest data, tools and what experts believe we can learn. Map reference. Map reference.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

Led by researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University, the study focused on polystyrene foam, collecting particles along the Tuul river running through Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Many of the images also showed mineral crystal particles, showing how the roughened surface could become home to inorganic pollutants absorbed from the environment.

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MARCH 10, 2022

Scottish Water said the process required meticulous planning to avoid impact on the environment and ensure the safety of the specialist teams on site. It also involved close liaison with the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), Police Scotland and the Ayrshire Rivers Trust.

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JUNE 13, 2022

Meanwhile, overuse of fertilisers and sewage pollution pump millions of tonnes of phosphorus into lakes and rivers each year, damaging biodiversity and affecting water quality. Global food security remains threatened as many farmers struggle to afford sufficient phosphorus fertiliser for their crops.

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