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Monday 8th November is sewage dumping day

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Whitewavemark2 Sun 07-Nov-21 06:44:12

Tomorrow Tory MPs will be voting to dump faeces, urine, chemicals, virus and bacteria into our waterways.

The plant life, insects, fish, crustaceans, water voles, otters beavers who live in them and animals that drink from them are all dependent on it for their lives.

A member of my family has spent many years working towards cleaning the rivers and sea, for which he is responsible, providing the right habitats for our wildlife and watching as it healed and became things of beauty once again.

The Tory party has received lucrative donations from water companies.

This is what corruption looks like.

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GrannyMacawell Tue 09-Nov-21 07:20:00

I agree veganstock. ..The country is losing its senses ..not just on this..It hardly surprises me anymore

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mokryna Tue 09-Nov-21 23:52:39

lemongrove

Hope nobody swims in the Seine either Mokryna?

No thanks, but

The goal is to clean the river enough so it is suitable for Olympic athletes in 2024.

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vegansrock Wed 10-Nov-21 06:43:19

83% of bathing waters in Europe are clean
Cyprus is top
Guess which country has the lowest quality bathing waters?

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vegansrock Wed 10-Nov-21 06:43:46

www.euronews.com/green/2021/06/17/how-clean-are-europe-s-oceans-lakes-and-rivers

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Whitewavemark2 Wed 10-Nov-21 11:04:45

Article in today’s paper that says that wildlife conservationists etc are worried at the level of nitrates and raw sewerage at the Thames mouth.

A colony of seals are at risk as are a myriad number of other species.

In the 1950s the Thames was dead. It has taken all this time to get it back to a reasonable level.

One bloody vote by the government and we are whizzing back to the past.

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