Warming, shrunken rivers - oxygen low, pollution concentrated, bacteria multiply, fish struggle - as @petedevery.bsky.social of @anglingtrust.bsky.social tells BBC Berkshire, pumping too much water, pollution, tearing out shade-giving plants weakens rivers. Then climate change deals the final blow.

"Depleted & polluted, rivers that were once abundant in fish, invertebrates, mammals & birds turn into a line of fetid pools” River campaigners, furious at the failure of successive to prepare for water scarcity, speak to Watershed's @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Brilliant news 👏👏👏Sandeels, the basis of so many food chains, need to remain in the sea not be harvested out of existence to feed farmed fish & animals. A win for seabirds. A win for fish. And definitely a bonus for the sandeels themselves. Fabulous. @petedevery.bsky.social @stuartsw.bsky.social

Just 55 years before #climate change makes up to 70% of #England’s rivers too hot for #trout to spawn 👀 @wildtrout.bsky.social @troutunlimited.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Are Keir Starmer and Donald Trump singing from the same #nature destruction manual when it comes to fish conservation? Certainly sounds like it ⬇️ #AnglersAgainstPollution #angling #salmon #conservation

Are Keir Starmer and Donald Trump singing from the same #nature destruction manual when it comes to fish conservation? Certainly sounds like it ⬇️ #AnglersAgainstPollution #angling #salmon #conservation

If HMTreasury drop this fundamental & hugely important approach, ensuring fines for polluting our rivers are invested in clearing up the mess, then it will be a huge act of betrayal. See my quote here. @anglingtrust.bsky.social @theriverstrust.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If you fancy learning how to waste your time gracefully, with a fly, lure or bait, lots more info on: anglingtrust.net #angling #fishing #trout #carp #bass

How I learned to fly-fish on the banks of the Thames

Labour shelves rescue plan for globally rare chalk streams www.thetimes.com/article/6c5f...

Merry Christmas 🎄

Record sewage spills and financial mismanagement = whopping price rises.

⬇️ And today the government has approved a 35% increase in your water bills to fund this fraudulent and criminally polluting Thames Water for another five years ⬇️ www.itv.com/news/meridia...

Water Co investment focuses too much on BIG rivers and improving large STWs. A top-down approach is needed: upgrade small sewage works, restore headwaters and add NFM upstream for clean water downstream. Start in top catchments for MAX impact on recovery! freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/news/positio...

All we ask is for water companies to follow the law and for regulators to enforce the law. Is that really too much to ask? It seems so. @petedevery.bsky.social @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Why should 6 million households in the Thames Water region be FORCED to pay £260 extra a year to keep this absurd company afloat for a little longer? This is daylight robbery 🤑 don't let them get away with it Sign the petition weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin... metro.co.uk/2024/12/11/c...

Special case? More like basket case. £51m on advisors & consultants in 6 months, no wonder Thames Water saw first-half loss of £189m. At that rate it will only take 10 years to burn through £3.5 billion they need to raise. www.thetimes.com/article/a004...

Chasing down billion$ more debt to finance Britain’s biggest water company month by month, the deluded CEO describes it as getting on a “more stable financial footing”. Tick tock, timberrrr! www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This plan is so ridiculous I can't believe I'm about to write these words - water companies want to build pipelines to divert sewage away from protected rivers to... other rivers & lakes with fewer legal protections...& they want to raise our bills to pay for it... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dear #NigelSlater farmed salmon isn’t sophisticated. Take it #offthetable www.theguardian.com/food/2024/de...

Even 71% of Sunday Times readers think our water industry should be renationalised. www.thetimes.com/article/1c1e...

“Enshittification” is a great word of the year for 2024. Inclusion in the Macquarie dictionary is the icing on the cherry on the turd. 💩 #endsewagepollution www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

“Enshittification” is a great word of the year for 2024. Inclusion in the Macquarie dictionary is the icing on the cherry on the turd. 💩 #endsewagepollution www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

I'm in The Conversation discussing the new release of nationwide sewage spill data in the wider context of open data, open models and environmental transparency. 1/n #opendata 🧪 theconversation.com/water-compan...

Christmas sewage lights going on early

Great work from @anglingtrust.bsky.social Water Quality Monitoring Network volunteers on the Severn. Three years of data, and anglers anecdotal evidence, shows the decline of this magnificent river. anglingtrust.net/get-involved... #AnglersAgainstPollution

Great work from @anglingtrust.bsky.social Water Quality Monitoring Network volunteers on the Severn. Three years of data, and anglers anecdotal evidence, shows the decline of this magnificent river. anglingtrust.net/get-involved... #AnglersAgainstPollution

‘The sores on the fish are nasty’: what’s behind the changes in the Severn river?

Bring Thames Water into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW Well done to Liberal Democrat Sarah Olney MP for calling on the government to put the company into Special Administration Time to PROTECT UK taxpayers and the 16 million 'customers' who have no choice but to use Thames Water www.ft.com/content/82db...

WOW! “We’re putting the public at risk by failing to invest in the most basic needs.” after years of “doing less than the bare minimum”, a source said. Will Steve Reed MP finally see the Execs running Thames Water as the crooks they are? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

WOW! “We’re putting the public at risk by failing to invest in the most basic needs.” after years of “doing less than the bare minimum”, a source said. Will Steve Reed MP finally see the Execs running Thames Water as the crooks they are? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

First post, dive in: Is the real ‘Wind in the Willows’ river on the precipice? “We can’t wait to 2031 until there’s a new Thames Water business plan, six years is going to be too long, it will kill the Pang.” Thanks BBC Berks. Full 12min item: shorturl.at/TV24a #anglersagainstpollution #chalkstream

Music was promised. Saturday night special incoming... www.mixcloud.com/SECRE_DJ_MIX...

Windermere should not be green savewindermere.com @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @carolvorderman.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

First post, dive in: Is the real ‘Wind in the Willows’ river on the precipice? “We can’t wait to 2031 until there’s a new Thames Water business plan, six years is going to be too long, it will kill the Pang.” Thanks BBC Berks. Full 12min item: shorturl.at/TV24a #anglersagainstpollution #chalkstream

Lots more people added to this starter pack for UK rivers and water quality. go.bsky.app/KaDADYV