Tag: Wales
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Sewage sleuths: the men who revealed the slow, dirty death of Welsh and English rivers
Ashley Smith and Peter Hammond by the River Windrush in Oxfordshire. Photograph: Sam Frost/The Guardian A tide of effluent, broken laws and ruthless cuts is devastating the nation’s waterways. An academic and a detective have dredged up the truth of how it was allowed to happen – but will anything be done? Peter Hammond’s house…
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$23 million in state grants aim to prevent sewage overflows, protect WNY waters
Downtown is reflected in the water at the small boat harbor on Friday. (Sharon Cantillon/Buffalo News) A Wales forest will grow by a couple hundred acres to protect the Niagara River’s water quality miles downstream. Six miles of Town of Tonawanda sewers will be lined to keep sewage from overflowing into Ellicott Creek and the…
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The water industry should be taken into public ownership
The We Own It campaigners and their SplashMob supporters are to be congratulated on making waves today, on the 29th anniversary of water privatisation in England and Wales. Their protest in London kept the spotlight on the scandal that is England’s all-for-profit water and sewage industry. Scottish and Welsh consumers can be forgiven for not…
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Water and wetlands
Wynchnor Washland — part of Staffordshire WT’s Farming Floodplains For the Future project (credit Nick Mott) Wetlands are vital part of our natural world – the lives of animals, plants and people depend on their health. Wetlands provide food, water, transport networks, help reduce the impacts of extreme weather events and are places of beauty…
