Janina Gray

Disastrous Resumption of Damaging Abstraction in the Upper @RiverChess Abstraction reductions in 2020 have now been reversed by the @EnvAgency, having secretly negotiated a costly & ill-conceived resumption of abstraction with @AffinityWater.

WildFish has long argued that @rspcaassured certification is used to hide the awful truth about this polluting industry. Great to see that @RSPCA_official President @ChrisGPackham is calling for the charity to end the greenwash: bit.ly/3S7J3EO #offthetable

Wondering what's in your water? Find out with the WATERSHED POLLUTION MAP Sewage, forever chemicals, road run-off, abandoned mines, farms, river health, bathing waters, landfills, flood zones, protected areas and so much more Explore the map here: bit.ly/45GBMRQ

Well done @Wimbledon 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

To have the Environment Agency CEO confirm there are deliberate attempts to block FOI requests that may reveal how bad the situation with our waterways is felt both validating and depressing. As I said at @TheRiverSummit yesterday, what we don’t know *can* still hurt us.

Who will tackle the sewage scandal? It will be a key part of this election campaign because of tireless work by campaigners, citizen scientists, university researchers, and a small number of politicians who got involved before 2021. They exposed the routine sewage dumping by water companies and highlighted the many failures of regulation.

‼️ More breaking news ‼️ In an enormous win for the Save Windermere campaign, just 12 hours after the general election was called, @Keir_Starmer has publicly announced his fury over United Utilities using our lake as a dumping ground for sewage. This victory would not have been possible without your unwavering support. But now is not the time to celebrate; it’s time to get the job done. It’s go big or go home. An immediate action YOU can take is to sign up to savewindermere.com and await updates on actions you can take in the coming weeks. Things are going to ramp up extremely quickly, so your support now counts more than ever. Now is the time to Save Windermere. Matt

🚨BREAKING 🚨 A GENERAL ELECTION has been called for 4 July. The next government has the power to enforce regulations that can prevent wild fish from harm. On Thursday 4 July will you vote to protect our freshwater spaces so that they are safe for wild fish and in turn us?

Sewage pollution kills nature and makes people sick. No more time for excuses. We need clean, healthy rivers and seas - planning for anything less is unacceptable. Email Ofwat and let them know - sas.org.uk/water-quality/…

Here are three ways that SmartRivers data is helping to protect and safeguard our rivers 🫧 and wildlife 🐟.

@bensurridge @Gillyc515837 @leanahosea @WildFishCons @MattStaniek Please see: wildfish.org/latest-news/we…

@Gillyc515837 @leanahosea @WildFishCons @MattStaniek One example...... ceh.ac.uk/press/inverteb…

Every sewage discharge is a massacre - research by @WildFishCons & @MattStaniek found a 76% fall in riverflies downstream of one single sewage outlet. Multiply that across the country, & that's an enormous chunk of the ecosystem slaughtered. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Yes. Please contact: SmartRivers@wildfish.org for all data- which is open access and continued to be collected spring and autumn.

Just going to leave this here after todays piece by @joe_crowley bbc.com/news/articles/… Last time round United Utilities initially denied this sewage being dumped in the middle of the lake, but it turned out to be true and they had to admit that on national TV. The piece also demonstrated the Environment Agency’s failure to perform a proper investigation into the incident, instead relying on United Utilities’ own testimony as to what happened. And now, as being reported today, the same sewage dump has happened again but this time 10 million litres is reported to have gone into Windemermere. Useless regulation and exploitation of our country’s greatest natural asset continues. savewindermere.com @Feargal_Sharkey

Another pollution pathway currently in the too difficult to deal with tray….#biodiversitycrisis

Last year, Save Windermere, in partnership with @MapImpact , embarked on a groundbreaking data collection programme, backed by the @spacegovuk , to study England's largest freshwater lake, Windermere. Well, now we are incredibly excited to announce that we have the results! And they are incredibly straight forward: ➡️ There is a direct correlation between visitor loading in the area and algal growth in Windermere. ➡️ Algal growth has been shown to worsen when lake temperature increases.  ➡️ There is no correlation between agriculture and algal spikes in Windermere. ➡️ In the last 3 years, there have been single days where over 300,000 people were in the catchment. ➡️ Despite owning the vast majority of sewage infrastructure in and around Windermere, United Utilities refused to provide any data for this publicly funded study to help protect our lake. This work builds on Save Windermere’s growing, rigorous scientific portfolio working closely with organisations like @WindrushWasp and @WildFishCons but this catchment-wide study with @MapImpact , looking at the overall health of Windermere, has now clearly demonstrated that when more people are here, we see more algae in the lake and the climate exacerbates this issue even further. This underscores the necessity for a long-term infrastructure investment plan, which surpasses the current inadequate proposals, addressing both untreated and treated sewage. Save Windermere now has even more evidence that justifies our overarching campaign message; stop putting sewage in Windermere. This solution has been implemented in lakes all over the world including the famous Lake Annecy in France. Their lake is now free from sewage and is classified as the cleanest in Europe. Similar action must be taken to protect this nation’s lake forever. Our full blog can be found here which also links to the full report and analysis produced by Map Impact ⬇️ savewindermere.com/news/save-wind… @BBCNews story here ⬇️ bbc.co.uk/news/science-e… @BBCBreakfast @JonahFisherBBC

Salmon Scotland application approved to change the Protected Geographical Indication name for “Scottish farmed salmon”, to “Scottish salmon” 😠 Our appeal ✊ argues the change will 👱 likely mislead consumers ❌ does not meet legal obligations. wildfish.org/latest-news/pr…

We should all be alarmed (but perhaps not surprised!) by a report from the @EnvAgency that evidences salmon on the river's Itchen and Test are suffocating in a sea of sewage. Read on to find out why 👇

Well said @TheJimMurray. The first thing you can do to help save endangered wild Atlantic salmon- stop eating farmed salmon now! It’s unsustainable- killing wild salmon and poisoning our coasts #offthetable

Have to say @PrivateEyeNews is absolutely on fire this week. 👏👏👏

Please join us in London on 22 June to ask all political parties to #RestoreNatureNow. The day will be family friendly, it'll be fun, it'll be peaceful & positive, but the message will be serious. Political promises aren't enough, it's time for action. restorenaturenow.com