Fantastic in-depth article about the legendary "sewage sleuths" @watervole3 & @WindrushWasp today: https://t.co/OLzavC40Q8 And here they are telling their horrifying sewage tales in Rivercide, trying not to laugh as @GeorgeMonbiot crashes his canoe👇

Whilst the scandal of sewage in our rivers gets all the headlines - here’s the hidden poo-nami that urgently needs tackling! 👇

🚨NEW: A recent internal report from Natural Resources Wales reveals that 63% of farms they inspected were breaking environmental regulations. Bad news for agricultural pollution in Wales. Here’s the story, including a link to the full report: https://t.co/MwwJMvyXG2

If you saw Rivercide, you’ll remember Emily’s powerful interview with @GeorgeMonbiot about discovering her beloved River Llynfi polluted - the fish gasping on the surface. Now @owensheers has rendered this horrifying experience into a poem…

The masterful @owensheers has written a poem about the pollution of the Llynfi (a tributary of the Wye). It’s in the voice of Emily, who witnessed a major fish kill there in 2020 and featured on @rivercide_live. Listen to The Verb tonight, BBC R4, at 9pm. Recorded @hayfestival

📢BREAKING: River Wye gets its first bathing status! Thanks to our challenge with the @GoodLawProject and @RiverActionUK, the @WelshGovernment has reversed their decision to deny bathing status to the Warren at Hay, a bathing place since at least the first OS map in 1888

Our citizen scientists monitor hundreds of sites throughout the Wye catchment. For months, one site - Hollywell Dingle - has been topping our leaderboard of shame as the most polluted. Has the @EnvAgency investigated the source of this pollution? NO. 🧵 1/6

Exciting river protection project happening in Devon. Can anyone help them with the last £££?

This was the extraordinary moment at our Restore the River event when Environment Agency Chair Alan Lovell was challenged by journalist ⁦@NicolaCutcher⁩ and a desperate audience on when the agency would enforce the law against polluters.

📢 TELL UK GOVERNMENTS - no new intensive poultry units! #StopKillingOurRivers https://t.co/1tYkMdTA4q 💩 Pollution from industrial chicken production is killing the #RiverWye. If we don’t act now, it could suffer total ecological collapse - and your local river could be next.

It was pretty wild chairing this event. Everyone is clamouring for the @EnvAgency & @NatResWales to enforce the law to protect the river! Here’s my write-up: https://t.co/tmrN9Um3lb

🚨We’ve applied for a stretch of the River Wye, near Hay, to become a designated bathing water. The Welsh Gov is consulting on the proposal. Please respond by 19 February to make your views known. Consultation details:

📻Here’s the full interview with @NicolaCutcher, whose investigations reveal that the @EnvAgency admits to conducting ZERO inspections of non-permitted free-range egg farms along the Wye. Such complacency is disgraceful and we look forward to seeing the EA in court next month!👊

DEFRA seems to be in denial about the Wye egg story in the Observer. I have to call out this disingenuous statement from an anonymous @EnvAgency spokesperson: ‘permitted farms are subject to regular inspections’ There’s a catch. THREAD 🧵 1/8 https://t.co/2aGDeh52pQ

Bravo @RiverActionUK & @watsonchas for bringing this out into the light! Major problems with pollution coming from free-range egg farms. The @EnvAgency & @NatResWales have woefully neglected this. Total regulatory failure. https://t.co/fMFAT6kG0r

🚨DISMAYING UPDATE @NaturalEngland has informed us that they have merely issued a ‘warning’ in relation to this incident. No prosecution, no fine. Laws are meaningless without enforcement. The River Wye is officially ‘declining’: a story of regulatory failure.

I am absolutely thrilled to receive the National Angling Awards unsung hero of the year. Huge thanks to the team at @angling_times and @DomGarnett This is greatly appreciated.

We were honoured that @BZephaniah performed live on Rivercide and share in the devastation of his tragic early death

Visionary: "thinking about or planning the future with imagination or wisdom" Me to Benjamin Zephaniah in 2021: could u write a poem about river pollution for mine & @GeorgeMonbiot's live doc @rivercide_live ? BZ: I could perform River City Blues, which I wrote 25 years ago?

There is consensus here between supermarkets, farmers and environmental groups - we need ‘special measures’ for the Wye! Why is govt asleep at the wheel? Where is the long-promised ‘Plan for the Wye’ from Secretary of State @theresecoffey ?

Inside national parks, nature is struggling. How can it be restored? Listen to our latest podcast episode with investigative journalist @NicolaCutcher https://t.co/cTNNXxZPHz