Environment Agency balls-up number 74,367,572 @EnvAgency is demanding the decimation of the River Chess one of the rarest rivers on earth. There are but 225 chalk streams on the entire planet, the rarest river systems on earth and 85% of them are to be found in southern England. They are also massively damaged by pollution and over abstraction for public water supply. The EA currently estimate that our chalk streams are over abstracted by about 1.4 billion litres of water per day. The River Chess was the exception. Just 4 years ago @AffinityWater stopped abstraction to save the river yet in July 2024 the EA ordered that abstraction begin again, putting the river at server risk and without consultation. Apparently AW are complying with the EA's instruction as they "to maintain a good relationship with the Environment Agency". Welcome to the EA, the very govt agency charged with a legal duty to safeguard, protect and conserve our rivers. What a shambles.

Thames Water’s ‘difficult choices’ must include pain for bondholders theguardian.com/business/nil…

We write in response to the photo of @GordonRamsay celebrating catching an Icelandic wild Atlantic salmon. You can have wild salmon or farmed salmon - not both.  Will you join fellow chefs and take farmed salmon off the menu and off your payroll? #offthetable 📸 Corin Smith

Don't let Thames Water's boss take you for a fool He is: 🤑 giving himself a £195k bonus for *3 months work* while company on brink of collapse 🤑 planning to 📈 your bills by 59% 🤑 lobbying Ofwat for an even sweeter deal for shareholders PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW

Now this is when it starts to get really interesting. Well done @SteveReedMP 👏👏👏

Lake Windermere, a UNESCO World Heritage Site don't you know and this is what we bloody well do to it. 🤬🤬

Here are YOUR PUBLIC SERVICES that 5 Prime Ministers have stolen in the past 14 years Don't let them get away with it #bbcqt

Help us save the Atlantic salmon by donating to our Green Match Fund campaign. If rivers are fit for salmon, they are fit for all including us. Every £ you give is matched if we reach our £20k target. donate.biggive.org/campaign/…

All is not well in the Atlantic. There will be wider consequences.

‘Disgraceful’ Thames Water told not to punish consumers. thetimes.co.uk/article/301f2… At last the Government gets it.

Feargal is right. The shareholders must foot as much of the bill as possible. If they won’t they lose and someone else will refinance the water companies. Existing shareholders and debt holders must not be bailed out.

The tragedy is that the law is not enforced. Ofwat and the EA have the means to force the water companies to fix it at their own expense. But they lack the will. Instead Water UK wants to stuff the customers with the bill.

13,618,860 hours over the last 5 years and govt would have you believe that’s progress. 🤬🤬🤬

Completely agree. Ofwat’s failure to enforce the law and make the water companies pay to fix the problem is a disgrace. WildFish court case made it clear but nothing is being done

Cut the bullshit and enforce the law - which requires the water companies to pay to stop the sh1t.

4m hours of raw sewage discharges in England last year, figures expected to show. All because of 30 years failure by EA and Ofwat to enforce the law to stop water companies cheating our rivers and their customers theguardian.com/business/202…

WIldFish and Coastal Communities Network have called for @ScottishEPA salmon farm sea lice regulation to be investigated for ailing to protect wild salmon

bbc.co.uk/news/business-6842… Ofwat has rightly told Thames Water to look to shareholders to sort out its financial mess. The bill to fix years of underinvestment in the basic network and ridiculous dividends must not be stuck on customers or the taxpayer.

There were questions been asked the other day about an amendment to the Levelling-Up Bill which was tabled and then withdrawn, one which was supposedly going to help protect chalk streams. But was it? @GuyLinleyAdams from @WildFishCons expertly explains. wildfish.org/latest-news/cha…

Bullseye… we need a zero tolerance response. The likes of Southern and Thames should be in special measures