Report: Rivers in England ‘Are in a Mess’

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By NTD Newsroom
January 13, 2022NTD UK News
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A report published by MPs provides a glimpse of how polluted the English rivers are. It finds that only 14 percent of English rivers meet good ecological status. MPs from the environment audit committee say that intensive farming, raw sewage, and urban waste are polluting the waters and not a single river in England has received a clean bill of health for chemical contamination.

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