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The drive to clean up England's polluted waterways has finally stepped up a gear
Philip Dunne writes for BusinessGreen.
Regular BusinessGreen readers will be familiar with the shocking statistics around water quality: only 14 per cent of rivers in England can claim good ecological status; not a single river in England has received a clean bill of health for chemical contamination.
Water Quality in Rivers
This week marked the official start of the summer bathing season, so use of Britain’s many beaches, rivers and watercourses for recreation will start to increase – including here in Shropshire, well not beaches, but our rivers and lakes for angling, wild swimming or canoeing, or even paddling coracles.