RiverActionUK
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River Action is a UK-based environmental campaigning body committed to rescuing Britain's rivers.
Joined February 2021
📣 RIVER ACTION IN COURT TODAY📣. River Action takes Shropshire Council to court over chicken megafarm approval. 💪 Join us as we stand up against pollution, poor planning and a broken system that rewards pollution over protection. 📖Read the full story:
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DISGUSTING scenes in the #RiverWye at Monmouth this morning, where Wyesham Wastewater is dumping sh💩t straight into the river. 🤬😡 . No words needed from us, @wildwomanwye sums it up perfectly. #SewageScandal #SaveTheWye
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Thank you, @Feargal_Sharkey! 🙌. A great turnout outside Cardiff Justice Centre. ✊ More updates to follow! #savethewye
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BREAKING NEWS!. @Feargal_Sharkey has been appointed as the new Chairman of @Ofwat!. Congratulations Feargal; the team at River Action will be supporting you all the way. 💪 👉#FearsomeFeargal #WatchOutOfwat
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🚨BREAKING NEWS: River Action wins landmark court ruling ‼️. High Court grants consent for River Action to sue @EnvAgency via judicial review over their failure to enforce key regulations to protect the Wye from horrific levels of agri pollution 👉 1/2 🧵
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📽️Footage just sent in of the Thames at Putney this morning‼️🤢. The Thames has been turned into a toxic soup of sewage - courtesy of @thameswater, complete regulatory failure and shameful inaction from government. 📷©@BritishRowing . @Feargal_Sharkey @SteveBackshall @jaowallace
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Following on from our expansion announcement yesterday, we are pleased to announce @Feargal_Sharkey as River Action's Vice Chairman! 👏. Feargal's tireless campaigning for our rivers is inspirational to us all and we can't wait to work closer with him to address these issues.
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👉 @NandosUK doesn't want you to know that their chicken supply chains are killing our rivers. so together with @ChrisGPackham we, ahem, fixed* their ads across London. 🚃🐔 ⬇️. (*these ads are spoofs, obviously) #CheekyNandos
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The River Wye can’t take much more of this 💩💩. On a day when our rivers face grave threats from govt plans to ditch river pollution rules, we investigate how the government's abandonment of critical environmental regulations is killing one of the nation's favourite rivers. 🧵
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🚨BREAKING🚨. Results of a national survey show a SURGE of public concern over the dire state of Britain’s rivers. In response, we've launched our Charter for Rivers, calling for all political parties to commit to restoring our rivers to health by 2030🧵
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS! 🚨. ❌☔ Despite barely a drop of rain in the past 3 weeks, the stretch of River Thames to be used for this weekend's Boat Race fails to meet even the lowest legal bathing standards. This isn’t a sewage overflow issue — it’s a systemic failure by Thames Water.
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River Action is urging the PM @trussliz to take immediate action to tackle the appalling state of our rivers. Every single English river is polluted beyond legal limits, our wildlife is disappearing & we can’t swim in our own waterways. Why is this?🧵👇.
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"Whether it be agriculture or the water industry, chicken farms or sewage, the political oversight and regulation of the environment has failed. Those responsible must be held accountable and must be made to put things right." - @Feargal_Sharkey 👏👏👇.
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🧵River Action is deeply concerned by a series of recent announcements from Government which have serious implications for our rivers. Environmentalists have warned these represent a 'deregulatory free-for-all' and a 'full-on attack on the laws that protect nature'. 👇.
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🚨BREAKING NEWS: HUGE win for the River Wye!. High court ruling declares farming manure as ‘waste’ in major victory for @RiverActionUK in its fight against industrial🐔pollution & exposes a regulatory regime that has failed to protect the environment.
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🚨BREAKING on #NutrientNeutrality: Cross-party Peers have defeated Government plans to unleash house-building sewage pollution in our rivers.🌊. Thank you @greenjennyjones @natalieben @LabourLordsUK @LibDemLords and all those who made this happen.💪👏👏👏. @jaowallace reports:
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🚨BREAKING NEWS! 🚨. River Action has issued a legal claim in the High Court against the @EnvAgency for failing to apply the Farming Rules for Water on the #RiverWye 👉 🧵
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The UK Government FAILED to introduce targets to protect our environment by a LEGAL deadline⏰. This is unacceptable - our rivers are among the worst in Europe and Government MUST urgently fix this crisis.
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🚨 Attention all river polluters! 🚨. 👩⚖️ If you fail our rivers, we will take you to court. If you're a mismanaged water company, a regulator asleep at the wheel, or a council rubber-stamping pollution. This is your warning❗️. Do not fail our rivers. We are watching. 👀. Please
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Thank you, @Stevebackshall! 🙌 #riverchampion. THE STATE OF OUR SEWAGE INDUSTRY IS A NATIONAL SCANDAL🤬. Another poignant 📽️ exposing the appalling state of our rivers - courtesy of failing water companies, complete regulatory failure and government inaction. 1/2🧵#sewagescandal
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“We gave them [the water companies] our money in good faith to invest in infrastructure, in water supply, and none of that’s happened. It’s simply gone to benefit the shareholders and drive their corporate greed and profiteering.” . Great interview, @Feargal_Sharkey! 👊👏👏.
New research claims shareholders in some of the UK's largest water companies have taken out tens of billions of pounds but failed to invest. Ofwat, the industry regulator, said it "strongly refuted" the figures. Campaigner Feargal Sharkey spoke to #BBCBreakfast
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🚨NEWS! Thousands rally in mass protest, urging Starmer to end the pollution of Britain’s waterways. The UK public have risen in outrage at the state of our waters. The Govt’s first 100 days in power are up. Time for excuses is over. READ MORE:
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📢 Hey Mark Standish, are you listening?. Celebrities have joined our call to demand that you clean up @NandosUK's #polluting supply chains. The future of Britain's rivers, & your reputation, depends on your next actions. We look forward to speaking with you soon. @TheJimMurray
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What an incredible day! 👊 Over 80,000 people, all marching to Parliament with one message for our politicians: 📢 Restore. Nature. Now! . #RestoreNatureNow #VoteCleanRivers @RNNMarch
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What. A. Day! 🎉💙. Incredible turnout from our friends in the Wye Valley and beyond yesterday, as we presented our case against the @EnvAgency & @DefraGovUK. Today, things hot up as the above parties present their defence. We'll keep you updated! #cutthecrap #SaveTheWye
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**HUGE NEWS**. A landmark legal ruling has found @DefraGovUK and @EnvAgency failed in their mandatory legal duties to put in place measures to restore rivers. 👇👇👇.
BREAKING: THIS IS BIG! Judgement today in our judicial review with @pickeringfish against @DefraGovUK and @EnvAgency. WE WON!🎉. In one of the most significant UK rulings affecting water protection policy in years. Welcome to your new role @SteveBarclay. A mega thread. 🧵
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NEW RELEASE!. The Govt is turning our rivers into a dumping ground💩.Families are swimming alongside politicians' 'floaters'🤢. THIS IS SH*T. If you give a shit, do something about it. Join @Feargal_Sharkey, @HughFW and many others, and✍️our petition TODAY
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“In a couple of weeks time, 10,000's of people will be going to our rivers, lakes & coast, none of which have bathing status protections and I’m not exaggerating - someone is going to die”. 📽️@watsonchas live in #Parliament's hearing on water quality and water infrastructure 🧵.
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So why are we taking the @EnvAgency to court?. The answer: we want this government agency to enforce the water quality rules that this govt made. Simple as that. #savethewye 👇👇. Pls share: . @FeargalSharkey @FriendsUpperWye @watsonchas @NicolaCutcher
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This is huge! 🚨🤯🎉. UK Supreme Court ruling paves way for businesses and public to sue water firms over sewage dumping. An incredible victory by the @GoodLawProject! 👏👏👏.#EndSewagePollution.
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📻"We believe that the @EnvAgency have acted unlawfully by deliberately not enforcing the critical regulation that would have prevented the contamination of the Wye" @watsonchas 👇👇. See you outside Cardiff Civil Justice Centre! @SaveTheWye @Feargal_Sharkey @FriendsUpperWye
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Yesterday, we visited No.10 to hand over our petition!📜. 🚨With over 106,000 of YOUR signatures, we are sending a very clear message: - the public will be putting water quality as a TOP voting issue ahead of the election. ⏰ Govt, it's time to act to #rescuebritainsrivers 🌊
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Thanks to @alextomo @Channel4News for highlighting the “less obvious, sinister effect” of Storm Ciarán - that of the massive amount of 💩💩 being discharged into our rivers and beaches from a broken system overwhelmed by high rainfall🤢.@sascampaigns @Feargal_Sharkey @jaowallace
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Last year, 3.6M hrs of💩were pumped into our rivers. Why? Because WC's have chosen to invest in executive salaries & shareholder dividends rather than their leaky sewerage networks - all while the regulators turn a blind eye. and that's why we have this terrible situation🔽
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This is a message for @NandosUK: your chicken is KILLING our rivers. ☠️. Nando's has the power to change this. Instead, they're ignoring the problem, hoping we won't notice what's happening to our rivers. Now you know. Share this message. Make them act. Our rivers depend on it.
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The brilliant @MattStaniek, @Feargal_Sharkey and the #SaveWindermere community 👏👏👏campaigning to save Lake Windermere from being destroyed by sewage pollution. ⬇️ #riverchampions #sewagescandal.
'It's being poisoned by sewage.'. @Feargal_Sharkey explains why he's supporting the Save Windermere Campaign.
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🚨BREAKING🚨. River Action have filed 3 complaints to @ASA_UK against @RedTractorFood, accusing the scheme of facilitating “greenwashing on an industrial scale” and masking agriculture’s role as one of Britain’s most environmentally destructive industries:
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The @MarchforWater is in full swing! 🥁🎶🌊. Thousands have joined in outrage at the state of our rivers, lakes and seas. Government, it's time to #CutTheCrap and clean up your act! 💩💩
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🚨THIS IS HUGE!🚨 Legal action over pollution in the Wye, Lugg & Usk has been expanded to include Welsh Water (WW), in the biggest claim of its kind in the UK. Sewage spills by WW are now accountable for damaged river water quality, say @LeighDay_Law 👇👇.
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📢 ANNOUNCEMENT: ⬇️ . A judge has ruled that farming practices will have to change in response to a legal challenge by @RiverActionUK over the @EnvAgency's alleged failure to enforce regulations to protect the River Wye from pollution. 1/3 🧵 . 👉
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📢Our rivers are in CRISIS. EVERY SINGLE river in England is polluted beyond legal limits. Will you give rivers your voice and help us to #RescueBritainsRivers?. Sign our new petition calling on all politicians to restore our rivers to health by 2030 🌊. 👉
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“When someone like @michaelgove gets on the radio - and says that under Conservative govt rivers are in a better state [. ] that is a lie. It is a lie and it needs to be called out.”. @watsonchas on @NickFerrariLBC, after the RSPB were called out for calling ministers, 'LIARS!'
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This is APPALLING 😡. For decades the Govt has let water companies pollute behind closed doors while defunding regulators that fail to enforce the law. The result? more than 600 sewage overflows free to pollute our rivers and seas unchecked: #CleanItUp.
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❗️UPDATE❗️River Action has instructed its lawyers to investigate whether @RedTractorFood's claims to certify good environmental standards on UK farms are in breach of the Advertising Standards Authority Code, following a damning report by the @envagency 👉
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River Action’s campaign to save the River Wye hits the front page of @thetimes! 💪. “Based on the evidence before us it would appear that Defra has given farmers the green light to pollute the Wye catchment. If this is the case, the implications are huge"
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Hey @NandosUK - your chicken is KILLING our rivers. Artists, chefs and charities across the UK are calling for you to do the right thing. Will you commit to protecting Britain’s rivers?. Read our open letter: 🔽 👇. #CheekyNandos
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Olympic rowers outraged by #sewagepollution 💩. ⚠️Pollution in the Thames is not only disgusting, it’s outright dangerous. 👉As put by @Feargal_Sharkey: “In Paris, you'll soon be able to swim in the River Seine. In London, it'll get you 6 weeks in intensive care” #sewagescandal
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We pay our bills to keep our water clean. Meanwhile, our representatives allow our rivers to be used as open #sewers by profiteering water companies. 💩 . The public has woken up to this woeful mismanagement. It is time for polluters to pay! #CleanItUp.
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Heartbreaking. 💔 The government has rejected proposals to protect England’s chalk streams. The UK is home to 85% of the world’s chalk streams, rare, precious ecosystems found almost nowhere else on Earth. These rivers are our nation’s rainforest, crystal-clear lifelines for.
Labour Mps follow party line to reject protections for chalk streams from the Government's growth agenda
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📢TODAY'S THE DAY! @EnvAgency, we'll see you in court.👊. Government in court over chicken poo in River Wye.@SaveTheWye @Feargal_Sharkey @FriendsUpperWye @watsonchas @wildwomanwye .
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🚨BREAKING: Boat Race teams risk kidney failure and sepsis from River Thames sewage water. Rowing should NOT be a dangerous sport. But thanks to @thameswater, it has become one here🦠🤮. This #SewageScandal is a NATIONAL DISGRACE‼️ ⬇️ .
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2️⃣5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ hours of non-stop sewage. The "How to destroy a chalk stream in 100 days" by @thameswater 🤬💩. #UKRivers #ThamesWater #SaveOurRivers #RiverAction
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Thank you @BBCNews for the lunchtime coverage! 📺. 🚨The decline of the Wye is a national scandal. We hope the court will agree with our assessment that the EA and Defra have failed to apply the law to protect one of the nation's favourite rivers. #cutthecrap #savethewye
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“Britain’s rivers are dying before our eyes. Every single one is polluted, yet agricultural waste continues to be washed into them without any effective regulation or punishment for the parties responsible”. @GeorgeMonbiot River Action advisory board member.
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🚨NEWS!🚨 River Action is taking legal action against @Ofwat, accusing it of unlawfully making customers pay for decades of neglect by the water industry. READ MORE: @MattStaniek @WindrushWasp #SewageScandal.
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@PaulWhitehouse | Our troubled rivers: A shocking, sickening and INCREDIBLY important documentary on the illegal discharge of sewage into our rivers.🤢 . A brilliant job to all involved for exposing our #criminal water companies! 💪 #sewagescandal
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BREAKING NEWS‼️.@RiverActionUK has found alarmingly high levels of dangerous E.coli from #sewagepollution along the stretch of the Thames that will be used for this weekend's historic Oxford v Cambridge boat race🤯. Read more 👉.#TheBoatRace #sewagescandal
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A huge thanks to @SteveRedgrave5, @SteveBackshall, @WindrushWasp, @HenleyMermaids, @Thames21, @davejvwallace and to all of our brilliant volunteers who have made this case impossible to ignore.💪. 📢@thameswater, it's time to clean up your act! . #CharterForRivers
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🎶"Row, row, row your boat, gently through the 💩. ". Here's Steve O'Connor, Director at the @river_rowing, reporting on a recent row along a stretch of the #Thames at Henley.🤢. This is appalling!😡 What's your excuse this time, @thameswater?? 🧵1/2.
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Wow! 📷 'Sirens of Sewage' by the brilliant @JasondeCairesT 👏👏. An extraordinary piece of artwork just installed in Whitstable. Read more here 👉
We're thrilled to reveal the 'Sirens of Sewage' a new art installation in Whitstable by the amazing @JasondeCairesT. It celebrates the national network of volunteers fighting for our water, including two members of @SOSWhitstable, Robin and Rose ✊
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‘Someone is going to die’: MPs warned of E coli risk in English waters. There is NO guidance being produced by the @EnvAgency. 1000s of families will be taking to rivers & seas at half-term, none of which have bathing status. Why is no one monitoring this⁉️
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🚨NEWS: High Court to hear case for judicial review over EA’s failure to protect the River Wye from agri pollution. Today, River Action and @LeighDay_Law will make their case for a judicial review over the @EnvAgency's failure to protect rivers from intensive farming practices.
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Demand for cheap chicken is DESTROYING the River Wye. Another excellent article from @thetimes, which highlights how the true cost of £4 chicken is "killing one of Britain’s biggest rivers”: #truecostofcheapchicken #CleanItUp #recsuebritainsrivers
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🚨BREAKING: ‘A National Scandal’: Court green-lights Thames Water’s £3bn bailout amid financial and environmental ruin. This is a disaster for @thameswater bill payers & the environment. The Govt CANNOT allow this reckless bailout to continue. READ MORE:
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1/2 ‼️ Devastating evidence just presented in court by David Wolf KC, which shows how the @EnvAgency found levels of phosphorus in a particular farmer’s fields to be ⚠️10 TIMES⚠️ over permitted limits due to manure spreading 🧵. .
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☠️The ecological collapse of the River Wye is one of the great environmental scandals of our time😡. That's why we're taking the @EnvAgency to court over its failure to enforce CRITICAL regulations, with the horrific consequences for the Wye plain to see👇.
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🚨We are facing a freshwater emergency!🚨. Yrs of de-funding of the UK’s environmental regulators has been a major cause of the crisis facing our rivers. Join us in demanding the govt to #DoubletheDosh for environmental protection. 🖊️ the petition TODAY👉
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Yesterday we wrote to @Tesco to call out its lack of action to save the River Wye. It's time for @Tesco to STEP UP and CLEAN UP its poo-luting supply chains. We wish the best of luck to @XRMarches and @SaveTheWye coalition groups protesting outside @Tesco in Hereford today!
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🚨 Thousands join protest to demand clean-up of UK’s filthy waterways 🚨. Tens of thousands of people formed a human river and marched through central London, demanding clean water. 📢🌊✊💧🪧✊🌊. @Channel4News #MARCHFORCLEANWATER
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BREAKING: River Wye residents may have legal claim for damages against intensive poultry industry. @LeighDay_Law is investigating the potential for landowners, businesses, clubs to sue 🐔 producers whose industrial-scale farming is polluting the river:
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Funding cuts to the @envagency have been slashed over the past decade, which has left the door open for polluters to - literally and metaphorically - dump their 💩 on the rest of us. Join us in demanding the govt to #DoubletheDosh for river protection! 👉
Huge round of applause to @EnvAgency staff, if ever there was a group of people who deserved a pay rise it's them. Lions lead by donkeys.
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"The last 10 yrs have seen a systematic collapse in environmental protection, with environmental regulations designed to protect rivers deliberately not enforced" . We call for ALL political parties to act now to #rescuebritainsrivers 👉 #CharterForRivers
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The Government should not be ‘asking’ for water companies to provide a “clear plan”. THEY should be holding them accountable by dictating and enforcing clear legislation and regulation. Time to wake up and ACT NOW: #CleanItUp #savebritainsrivers.
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Fancy a swim in the #Thames, anyone? 🤢. @thameswater recently called us "alarmists" & said the water is safe. So @jaowallace went to test it out. 👇. #TakingOneForTheTeam @fluidion @Earthwatch_Eur
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The extraordinary Angela Jones, Wild Woman of the Wye is calling on agri producers and water companies to 📢STOP IT NOW📢 - stop polluting the River Wye + for @GOVUK to step up and do their job to protect our rivers 🌊. We hear you loud and clear Angela! 🙌
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✨We're so close to reaching our goal of 100,000 signatures!✨ . If you have not already, help us hold the polluters to account by ✍️ and sharing our petition TODAY 👉 #RescueBritainsRivers 🌊.
We’re facing a freshwater emergency - every single river in England is polluted beyond legal limits. @RiverActionUK have launched the Rescue Our Rivers petition which calls on political leaders to take steps to restore river health by 2030. Support:
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📺Here it is! The brilliant @joelycett vs Sewage . Tomorrow at 9pm on @Channel4. Put it in your diaries, it's gunna be a good one !🗓️💩 #sewagescandal.
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🚨NEWS: Labour’s agriculture plans will increase chicken waste in rivers. We're deeply alarmed by Labour’s reckless proposal. Polluting poultry units have already destroyed the #RiverWye, & we have grave concerns for other catchments across the UK. 1/2🧵.
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Sick of sewage? Join us by signing and sharing our petition, which calls for ALL political parties to act now, and to act boldly, to rescue our rivers for nature and people. 🧵.
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Wondering why we’re taking @EnvAgency to court?. Here’s @watsonchas's interview on @BBCr4today (52:32), which sums up why we're taking legal action over the @EnvAgency's failure to prevent the destruction of the River Wye 👉 .#R4Today #bbcnews
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"It's got to stop. It stops today. It stops now. I need people to get that anger, get that rage and join me on Saturday 26 October. It's time to flood the streets." . Thank you, @Feargal_Sharkey! ✊👏👏. Join the coalition; sign up today! @MarchforWater.
'Every single river in England is polluted.'. Campaigner @Feargal_Sharkey tells @kategarraway why he will be teaming up with a number of green groups to protest against sewage dumping by marching from central London to Parliament Square on October 26.
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"Study finds sewage bacteria in ocean spray. Pathogens such as E coli and salmonella can be blown miles into coastal communities after a rainstorm.". Adds a whole new meaning to ‘whipping up a sh#tstorm’. This is DISGUSTING 😡😡 #EndSewagePollution
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Whilst the regulator is in bed with the regulated, the public is “wading through the poisonous effluent of their combined malpractice”. An utter disgrace🤬🤬 #sewagescandal. Revealed: watchdogs and water bosses had dinner at private club to discuss future
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❌“It's a disgrace. We are the dirty man of Europe”. Our Founder and Chair @watsonchas on @BBCBreakfast this morning, after a damning report from OEP watchdog criticises government's water clean-up plans for England. ⬇️. Read more:👉 #RescueBritainsRivers
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🚨Today we are launching our new #GiveUsBackOurRivers campaign and public petition to call on the English & Welsh Governments to properly fund environmental protection by DOUBLING agency budgets!. SIGN OUR PETITION NOW!
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Blue plaques popping up in #Taunton this weekend as part of the national #DirtyWater day of action. It was great to see so many activists for the #RiverTone naming and shaming their local MP, who voted to continue dumping raw sewage into our waterways. #cleanupyouract
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Things can only get better…. 🗳️The UK General Election has been called for Thurs 4th July. 🚨The next govt MUST hold polluters accountable. 📢We call on all parties to adopt our #CharterForRivers. We need healthy waterways for people & nature. 👉
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"our message is clear: we want the polluters to pay for this problem; we want significant reform of the regulators and, lastly, we want the law to be upheld". Nice one, @ChrisGPackham! 👏. Join us THIS Sunday as we march to demand change. 📍11am, Albert Embankment (& #WearBlue!).
We're marching because we're angry . Sewage , agricultural run-off , the huge profits from water companies . enough is enough . Sunday 11am , Albert Enbankment – see you there.@MarchforWater .
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Despite multiple calls for action to large agri-businesses, the River Wye is still dying. This is why we're urging two of these leading businesses @thenoblefoods & @AvaraFoods to take IMMEDIATE tangible action to reverse the decline of an iconic river.
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The talk of banning water company bonuses over illegal sewage spills was first mentioned over 18 MONTHS AGO. And now it just 'might' happen in April?. This is nothing more than a slap on the wrist for an industry that has been polluting with impunity for years #sewagescandal👇
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📢📢***BREAKING NEWS*** 📢📢. We are thrilled to announce that the @nationaltrust is supporting the #MarchforCleanWater in London on October 26.
It is time for decisive action to prevent our rivers being used as open sewers. Let’s return them to people and nature. On 26th October, we’re supporting the #MarchForCleanWater in London to demand urgent action from our new Government. #FloodTheStreets .
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📢 What do we want? CLEAN WATERS! When do we want it? NOW! ✊✊. The public have spoken.🪧🌊 We had one clear message yesterday: we want action to end to water pollution and we want it NOW. @itvnews #MarchForCleanWater @MarchforWater
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"I did some testing on the Kennet yesterday [. ] & it shows 2963 Ecoli colonies per 100ml. That means, if I was to give this to Steve to say 'Cheers', he might die". These test results are HORRIFIC. Pls support & share.our @BigGive campaign to save the Thames from💩 pollution! 🧵.
Television naturalist Steve Backshall has described pollution found in the River Thames as "toxic". James Wallace from River Action told #BBCBreakfast testing revealed how bad the situation is .
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Researchers at @UniofOxford & @imperialcollege have developed a novel computational method to track down the sources of river pollution, leaving the perpetrators "nowhere to hide". Will this be a game-changer in tracking down river polluters? @jaowallace.
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📢IT’S HAPPENING! #thebigone . We’re outside @DefraGovUK with @XRebellionUK to demand ACTION from the Government to #rescuebritainsrivers 💪. @AmySlack_1 @XRMarches @SaveTheWye @WeareWiveyXR @HenleyMermaids
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"River Action is determined to prevent a re-run of the scandal of the Wye taking place in the Severn – hence why we have instigated this critical legal action" -@watsonchas. Chicken industry must halt expansion to stop environmental scandal in River Severn.
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APRIL FOOLS!!! We wish this was true but we have been getting our Teenage Kicks out of this one today and seeing everyones reactions and funny responces! Thanks @Feargal_Sharkey @jaowallace for playing along with us! 💩😁😉🙌.
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⏰ HEADS UP! ⏰ Time is running out to try & stop the govt passing a law that will force us to bailout failing water companies.😡. Pls sign & share @sascampaigns #BanTheBailouts petition TODAY & make govt prioritise the public, not the #polluters. ⬇️⬇️.
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