How a Cotswolds river could present the way in which to wash up England's waterways

The Evenlode in Oxfordshire, UK, has been affected by air pollution, however farmers, the water trade and native volunteers are working collectively to wash it up

“It’s miserable. It’s one thing we should always be capable of put proper,” says Mark Purvis, standing subsequent to a brook feeding the Evenlode, a river within the Cotswolds space of southern England that has been plagued with water air pollution lately. “We’ve seen declines in numbers of fish, bugs and weed development within the river. And horrible turbidity [cloudiness] in summer season,” he says.

The Evenlode’s issues aren’t distinctive. England’s rivers are “a multitude”, a report by MPs within the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) concluded final month, resulting from a scarcity of funding and monitoring …


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