At the Labour Conference, it was clear that rivers remain at the forefront of the political agenda - new Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds said cleaning up our water was her top priority and even the event spaces were named after rivers! 📈💧

THIS IS SHOCKING! 😳 See those white and blue pieces? That’s plastic.... In sewage sludge that is being spread on our farmland and often ending up in our rivers. 💩😱 🛑 THIS NEEDS TO STOP 🛑 Add your name to the petition - act.gp/4nHfsAc 📸 Credit: Fighting Dirty #SewageSludge #ToxicSludge

🏅 Beyond the Finish Line - From Olympic gold to protecting our rivers. 🏊‍♂️🌍 At this year’s @blueearthsummit.bsky.social, we’ll be in conversation with Olympic legend Sir Steve Redgrave to explore how sport, community, and action can save our rivers. 💧 Get your ticket here 👉 blueearthsummit.com

🚨 BREAKING NEWS! Shocking new evidence suggests Environment Agency failed to attend many serious pollution incidents, relying on water companies’ word instead. Internal EA rules say staff should attend all serious incidents, yet in 2024 they missed nearly a third of them. 🫣 🔗 - bit.ly/4nnmqtC

Hay Festival Winter Weekend! 🌿💙 Our Deputy Chair, Jim Murray will be joining @nicolacutcher.bsky.social in a conversation to spotlight the crisis facing our rivers and the hope for change. 🗓 Saturday 29 November, 2.30pm 📍 Hay Castle 🔗 Find out more: www.hayfestival.com/winter-weeke...

In Chicago, decades of clean-up have turned a toxic river into a place where 300 people just swam for the first time in 100 years. 🌊 We can do the same here in the UK, our rivers deserve it. 💙

Better drainage, filtration systems, public transport, walking + cycling routes, cleaning roads - just some of the ways we can stop this filth entering our rivers every time it rains. More information on preventing runoff at: www.stormwatershepherds.org.uk/2022/04/25/t...

Our Head of Campaigns and Head of Communities have been at the Lib Dem Party Conference, speaking with MPs and councillors to help drive ambition to rescue our rivers at both a national and local level. 📈💧 And yes… we also braved the water with @sascampaigns.bsky.social for their Dip a Day! 🏊‍♀️❄️

👀💀 “Lough Neagh is dying in front of our eyes.” The UK’s largest lake is choked with algae, fuelled by manure and fertiliser runoff from industrial farming and inadequate wastewater treatment. 🤢 🔗 - bit.ly/46hQOj7

At the Wild Summit, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall called out the dirty secret of water companies selling chemical-laden sewage sludge to our farmers. 🤢 ⛔️ This is a national scandal and it needs to end. ✍️ You can help stop toxic sewage sludge by signing the petition 👉 act.gp/4nHfsAc

“It’s just one factory farm application, it won’t affect my river.” 🤡 Don’t sit back while your river burns. 🔥 Use our Planning Toolkit to object to a dangerous planning application that could harm your river 👇https://kit.riveractionuk.com/river-rescue-kit/object-to-a-development/

🚨 NEWS! While communities faced hosepipe bans, tankers were hauling millions of litres to fill a billionaire’s private lake. 🤡 🤝 Local residents helped uncover the story by waking at 3am to track tankers and film evidence. Read the full story 👉 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5jg9vy1n0o

🏆 We did it! Our Nandos campaign won the ‘Best Use of Social Media’ at the Third Sector Awards 2025. This award belongs to everyone who made the campaign such a success, from those who signed our open letter to everyone who helped spread the message loud and clear: "stop killing our rivers." 🐓💩

🚨 NEWS! Over 750,000 tonnes of toxic landfill liquid are mixed with sewage and spread on English farmland every year. 🤮 Corporate greed and a complete lack of regulations is putting soils and rivers at risk. It has to STOP! ⛔ Help us STOP TOXIC SLUDGE by signing our petition 👉 act.gp/4nHfsAc

🗣️"No-one should have issues with farmers, it's the system" Our CEO, James Wallace at the UK's very first Wild Summit today. It’s time to END the false choice between food production and nature. We must work together to transition towards truly sustainable farming. 🚜💚

📢 Join our team! We’re seeking someone with a strong grounding in UK law, excellent research and writing skills and motivated by River Action’s mission to protect and restore the UK’s rivers. 👊 🌊 Closing date: 29th of Sept 2025. Apply today 👉 https://riveractionuk.com/our-team/#join-our-team

Factory farms are killing our rivers 💀 and YOU CAN stop them! 🛑 👀 Check out our Planning Toolkit for a step-by-step guide to objecting to a dangerous planning development. 👉 kit.riveractionuk.com/river-rescue...

We were delighted to present the Rivers & Seas Award to @elliechowns.bsky.social tonight. 🎉 She has been an inspiring advocate for change through her efforts to protect the River Wye from factory farming pollution and co-chairing the Water Pollution APPG. Thank you, Ellie, for all your hard work 🙌

Feeling inspired by communities taking on factory farm applications and winning? 🤩 😎 Our free to use River Rescue Kit now includes a step-by-step planning toolkit to help you object to developments that could damage your river. Check it out today 👉 kit.riveractionuk.com/river-rescue...

Creditors set out £20.5bn plan to save Thames Water

📢 Join our team! We're seeking a dynamic and self-motivated Policy & Advocacy Manager to join our talented team of positive disruptors and community mobilisers on a mission to #RescueBritainsRivers. 👊 🌊 Closing date: 15th of September 2025. Apply now 👉 riveractionuk.com/our-team/#jo...

In 2 week’s time doors will open at the biggest nature event of the year - #WildSummitUK 📢 Join us to explore some of the big issues facing nature & communities - including how we ensure planning reform has benefits for both people & wildlife🏡 Book tickets via wildsummituk.eventbrite.co.uk 🎟️

🎣 Thames Water wriggles off the hook again... In an opinion piece for the Daily Express, our CEO James Wallace writes ✍️: "Ordinary people cannot negotiate away a court penalty, yet Thames Water has secured a deal that may let its current investors off the hook" 🔗- bit.ly/4fZCkHu

🚨NEWS! The Wildlife Trusts' latest research demonstrates that factory farming is pushing our rivers to breaking point 😟 This research confirms what many river communities: nutrient pollution is devastating our freshwater ecosystems. ☠️ Read the full story 👉 riveractionuk.com/news/the-wil...

“It is outrageous that Thames Water has been allowed to kick its fine down the road.” Agreed, James Wallace of @riveractionuk.bsky.social. www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...

I don't remember seeing this recipe in Hugh Fearnley-Whitingstall's last cookbook? 🥣💩.... Water companies are cooking up a toxic sewage sludge that contains a mix of pathogens, pharmaceuticals and microplastics 😳 Stop the spread of toxic sewage sludge by signing the petition✍️ 👉 act.gp/4nHfsAc

We were proud to stand with @sascampaigns.bsky.social at 10 Downing Street yesterday. 🤝 Together, we made it clear: the government must go further than the Water Commission’s report and make real reform of the water companies. Nothing less will do. It’s time for meaningful change. ✊

Thames Water agrees payment plan for £123m sewage and dividend fines

🚨 BREAKING! Ofwat just handed Thames Water a sweetheart deal on its £122 million fine 💘 Instead of paying up, Thames Water has been allowed to kick the can down the road - with 80% of its fine delayed for up to 5 years! 🫣 Read the full story 👉 www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2100...

🚨 BREAKING! Plans for a 32,000 bird megafarm on the River Kennet have been REJECTED by West Berkshire Council 🥂🥳 Huge congratulations to the local community who fought tirelessly to protect this precious chalk stream. 🙌 Read the full story here 👉 riveractionuk.com/news/megafar...

From green 🟩 to clean 🧼, a story of how a Spanish Community saved their lake. 💭 "When local voices come together, even the dirtiest of waters can become clean" Drew Richardson - Communities Coordinator Read Drew's blog that covers this incredible story of hope 👉 riveractionuk.com/news/from-gr...

📣 ACTION 📣 Tell your MP: It's time to take Thames Water back! The Government must step in with special administration. The choice? Rebuild by putting people and the environment first - or wipe off its debts and sell it back to yet another foreign investor. 🤔 📩 Email your MP now 👉 bit.ly/46WHWjv

We welcome #ThamesWater to be taken into SAR, but not as a way of selling it off to another foreign-owned investor. We've written to the Environment Secretary to warn this would be a betrayal of the public - Read the whole story 👉 https://riveractionuk.com/news/thames-water-dont-betray-public/

"Unless we act, we’ll return to our shameful position as the ‘dirty man of Europe" 🇪🇺 http://bit.ly/4os8L5i Our own Amy Fairman reacts to our place in the bathing water leaderboard.

🥂 CAMPAIGN WIN! 🥂 After legal pressure from River Action, DEFRA has finally closed a major loophole 👏: 💩 Manure can now ONLY be spread when crops actually need it - not at times it can just run off and pollute our rivers. 🔗 Read the full story - riveractionuk.com/news/defra-i...

💧£100bn to nationalise water? Sounds like someone’s been drinking from the wrong tap 🤡 🔗 - www.theguardian.com/business/202... 🗣️ "The People’s Commission on the Water Sector has investigated the £100bn figure in detail and found that the costs are based on biased evidence and have no basis in law"

Thames Water, the £20 billion timebomb 💣💥 Our Head of Legal, Emma Dearnaley, sets out why special administration is the best solution — and why we are taking legal action in an opinion piece for the @express.co.uk 👇 🔗- express.co.uk/comment/expr...

🚨 BREAKING NEWS!🚨: River Action launches legal challenge over Government’s silence on Thames Water Repeated lawbreaking and record levels of pollution, and yet the Government still won’t say when it will use its emergency powers to intervene. 😡 👉 riveractionuk.com/news/river-a...

We are delighted to welcome Dr Samir Seddougui as our Campaign Researcher. 😁 Find out why Samir is joining River Action and the role he will be playing in our mission to #RescueBritainsRivers 👉- riveractionuk.com/news/meet-dr...

😮 2024 saw the highest number of pollution incidents on record! 💩 Here is a thread of some of the most shocking statistics from this years Government's incident report. 🧵 (1/6)

We believe the Cunliffe Review falls far short of the systemic change needed to end the sewage scandal. It offers tweaks to a broken, privatised system but we need root-and-branch reform.🌳 Now it’s up to the Government to be bold – and go beyond Cunliffe review. 💙📈

🎉 River Action’s March for Clean Water campaign has been shortlisted for 2 awards - PR Week Awards's Best Environmental Purpose Campaign and the Big Impact Award at the ThirdSector Awards! 🏆 A huge thank you to everyone who joined us. Your voices and passion made this campaign truly special 💙

Our Senior Communities Coordinator, Chloe Peck on BBC Newsbeat today discussing a range of issues including: 🫢 A record number of serious pollution incidents (up 60%) 🧪 River testing 🙌 The governments aim to half the amount of sewage releases by 50% by 2030....

🚨 BREAKING NEWS! 🚨 - Water Commission falls short The Water Commission's final report ultimately offers “the illusion of change – not real change.” Instead of ending pollution-for-profit, it props up the broken privatised model that caused this disaster. 😡 🔗- bit.ly/4o3Bldi

🚨NEWS!🚨 - The UK government has pledged to halve sewage discharges by 2030. An admirable target, but we need action, not promises... Our CEO, James Wallace breaks it down in an interview with BBC News 👇

🚨 BREAKING NEWS! - Ofwat to be abolished 🔗- www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Years of Environment Agency budget cuts and weak enforcement have allowed polluters to act with impunity.🤬 To make matters worse, the department responsible for environmental protection took the biggest real-terms funding cut in the recent Spending Review. 😳

🚨 BREAKING NEWS! - 60% increase in serious water pollution incidents by water companies! 🥴 Today’s government data expose a brutal truth: serious pollution incidents are rising and our rivers are spiralling toward ecological collapse. This is not just regulatory failure; it is a national disgrace.

The great artificial water crisis of 2025 🫣 🌍🔥 This is a man-made disaster fuelled by decades of failure to invest in climate resilience. This isn't suprising given that since 1990, shareholders have extracted over £77bn in dividends...🤬 🔗- bit.ly/4lTRZdi @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

🫵 Help shape vital public health research for fresh water swimming! 🏊‍♀️ Researchers at the University of Exeter want to hear from both swimmers to help understand the health risks of freshwater swimming 🧪 🙏 Take the survey here: bit.ly/freshwater-s...