โฐ๏ธ Walker and nature lover ๐ฅพChairperson @LDNwaterkeeper ๐ Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul ๐
Joined July 2010
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24 Mar 2024
I finished the New River Path today โ
My last section was from Rye House to New Gauge House ๐
ALT Me at Rye House station
ALT Me at New Gauge House
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Dee Dee May ๐ฒ retweeted
2 Jul 2025
The River Lea's monitors show how vulnerable it is in the summer.
Warm water holds less oxygen but sun boosts photosynthesis.
Today's clouds mean less oxygen (the red ovals).
We're lucky there wasn't more rain to wash pollution off paved areas. In 2023 thousands of fish died.
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Dee Dee May ๐ฒ retweeted
6 Jun 2025
Cutting sewer overflows with green infrastructure will look a lot like Queen Caroline Estate in West London.
Lots of spaces to slow rain so it doesn't overwhelm sewers.
It helps cut surface water flood risk in Hammersmith & urban heating.
It creates better living spaces too.
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Dee Dee May ๐ฒ retweeted
1 Jun 2025
Pleased to announce we have twinned the Bagmati River in Nepal with the Thames.
The bond was marked in Kathmandu today at a ceremony to mark Sithi Nakha & a more modest one in London.
A partnership between London Waterkeeper & Bagmati River Waterkeeper.
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Dee Dee May ๐ฒ retweeted
24 Apr 2025
H/t @LDNWaterkeeper ๐๐ป
24 Apr 2025
Thanks to the @BigGive donations to @LDNWaterkeeper will be DOUBLED until midday on Tuesday the 29th April. Please share and spread the word to give a stronger voice to London's rivers! Donate here ๐ donate.biggive.org/campaign/โฆ @Waterkeeper
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24 Apr 2025
Thanks to the @BigGive donations to @LDNWaterkeeper will be DOUBLED until midday on Tuesday the 29th April. Please share and spread the word to give a stronger voice to London's rivers! Donate here ๐ donate.biggive.org/campaign/โฆ @Waterkeeper
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Dee Dee May ๐ฒ retweeted
3 Apr 2025
Fantastic result for rivers.
Thank you @FishLegal_ and @pickeringfish.
Every river needs a detailed improvement plan. That the Environment Agency said they didn't was absurd.
As the judge said they must "identify a programme or scheme of actions for each water body".
Now do it!
2 Apr 2025
BREAKING: Court of Appeal judgment handed down today in our nationally important river case with @pickeringfish against @DefraGovUK and @EnvAgency.
WE WON (again)! Government's appeal comprehensively dismissed.
The ruling sets out exactly what @SteveReedMP needs to do to restore rivers across the country. No more excuses. No more delay.
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Dee Dee May ๐ฒ retweeted
7 Mar 2025
So much crammed into this part of the Thames.
Photo taken from the former Beckton Gas Works, with the Victorian pillars of the coal ship piers in the foreground.
To the left Beckton Sewage Works.
Towering above it all Barking Creek Barrier on the tidal Roding.
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Dee Dee May ๐ฒ retweeted
12 Jan 2025
Three years ago #OTD the Thames Path National Trail was extended to Woolwich Foot Tunnel & linked with the England Coast Path to create the only Source to Sea National Trail, 374 km, 232 miles!
๐ท @deedeelea @JohnMTippetts
@ExploreKent @NaturalEngland @NatTrailsUK @RamblersGB
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Dee Dee May ๐ฒ retweeted
31 Dec 2024
Wow !!!!!
Our 100 Year old family cafe is ranked in the worlds top 100 places to eat
Wishing everyone a Happy and Healthy New Year
@Riscardo @iancesay @ianpuddick @joeflanagan1 @RealGaryWebster @ReptonBC
ALT Wow !!!!! Our 100 Year old family cafe is ranked in the worlds top 100 places to eat Wishing everyone a Happy and Healthy New Year @Riscardo @iancesay @ianpuddick @joeflanagan1 @RealGaryWebster
ALT Wow !!!!! Our 100 Year old family cafe is ranked in the worlds top 100 places to eat Wishing everyone a Happy and Healthy New Year @Riscardo @iancesay @ianpuddick @joeflanagan1 @RealGaryWebster
ALT Wow !!!!! Our 100 Year old family cafe is ranked in the worlds top 100 places to eat Wishing everyone a Happy and Healthy New Year @Riscardo @iancesay @ianpuddick @joeflanagan1 @RealGaryWebster
ALT Wow !!!!! Our 100 Year old family cafe is ranked in the worlds top 100 places to eat Wishing everyone a Happy and Healthy New Year @Riscardo @iancesay @ianpuddick @joeflanagan1 @RealGaryWebster
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31 Dec 2024
โMy Favourite Camps of 2024โ on my new blog - inspired by posts by Chris Townsend, @AshRouten and @dribelad. The best nights of the year are always spent camping - here are my highlights ๐๏ธ thewateriswide.net/blog/my-fโฆ
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30 Dec 2024
This day last year at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, AZ. A 1 sq mi park set aside in 1892 to preserve the remains of an Ancestral Sonoran Desert People's community and irrigation system. It was built around 1350 C.E. and abandoned about 1450. An incredible place!
ALT Sign for Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
ALT Ruins with a roof over them to protect them
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28 Dec 2024
Todayโs #PostboxSaturday ๐ฎis a local Homerton Victoria - dating it to 1837-1901. As itโs in front of โ60s flats I thought the original buildings mustโve been bombed in WWII, but I looked it up and a paint factory was on the site but was demolished to make way for social housing.
ALT Red postbox with Victoria cypher
ALT Red postbox with 1960s flats
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27 Dec 2024
Good morning and happy #FingerpostFriday ๐
๐ชง Todayโs entry is from my Christmas Day walk on the Norfolk Coast Path to Wells-next-the-Sea. Behind the fingerpost is the famous crab-pot Christmas tree ๐ฆ ๐
ALT A fingerpost in Wells harbour pointing to the Norfolk Coast Path, outer harbour, pinewoods, beach and playground. Behind it is a Christmas Tree made out of crab pots which was originally conceived in lockdown.
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26 Dec 2024
Christmas Day walk on the Peddars Way and Norfolk Coast Path from Burnham Overy Staithe to Wells-next-the-Sea ๐ ๐ชง ๐
ALT A woman (me) wearing hiking gear pointing in front of a Norfolk Coast Path fingerpost
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Dee Dee May ๐ฒ retweeted
26 Nov 2024
To make Thames Water put sewer overflows online we used the law.
We were the first to cite the clause in the Environmental Info Regs 2004:
"make the information available by electronic means...& organize.. with a view to the active and systematic dissemination to the public"
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24 Nov 2024
English water companies are now showing real-time sewer overflows. As the Environment Act 2021 requires.
This is good of course. But are all the unconsented sewers on this new map?
Channel4 Dispatches found 100s of sewer pipes "off the books"
youtu.be/ilhC5Ekp3eo?si=QLpCโฆ (5m48s)
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Dee Dee May ๐ฒ retweeted
24 Nov 2024
English water companies are now showing real-time sewer overflows. As the Environment Act 2021 requires.
This is good of course. But are all the unconsented sewers on this new map?
Channel4 Dispatches found 100s of sewer pipes "off the books"
youtu.be/ilhC5Ekp3eo?si=QLpCโฆ (5m48s)
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From today anglers, kayakers and swimmers in England will be able to see, in near-real time, when and where a storm overflow has discharged on our new National Storm Overflow Hub.
Find out more: water.org.uk/news-views-publโฆ
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Dee Dee May ๐ฒ retweeted
11 Oct 2024
Not inserting this clause into the Water Industry Act 1991 leaves the law weaker.
Doing it would be an easy win for the new Government.
Rather than loopholes we need greater control of water companies.
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Dee Dee May ๐ฒ retweeted
11 Oct 2024
The last Government didn't fully activate its own law, the Environment Act 2021.
The clause to make water companies "secure a progressive reduction in the adverse impacts of discharges from storm overflows" isn't in force.
We asked the new Government to do it, they haven't yet.
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20 Nov 2024
Iโm not closing my account on here, but I am on blue sky too if any of you are Iโm the same handle bsky.app/profile/deedeelea.bโฆ
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Dee Dee May ๐ฒ retweeted
18 Nov 2024
Tonight students taking action on rivers at #Rivershackathon
13 Nov 2024
๐ฟAs COP29 tackles climate challenges, we're spotlighting @kcllegalclinic's Rights of Nature toolkit. It breaks down water pollution laws and offers practical advice to help protect rivers.
Access the toolkit โฌ๏ธ
kcl.ac.uk/legal-clinic/assetโฆ
#COP29 #RightsOfRivers #ClimateChange
ALT A river running between greenery with the text: COP29 Spotlight: Protecting Rivers in England and Wales
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