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@RachSalv
Aug 29, 2019 • 8 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
If you prefer your Armageddon a little less political, check out the doom monged by @TheENDSReport this morning:

1/7 It looks like northern England could face water shortages by 2030
endsreport.com/article/159508…
2/7 But of course we've known about the looming crisis for ages. Here's @theresecoffey Coffey in 2017 saying England could face a “water deficit of 8-22% of total water demand by the 2050s". While London could see a of defecit 132.7Ml/d by 2020
endsreport.com/article/153048…
3/7 More recently, @EnvAgency chair @JamesBevanEA warned of an impending 'jaws of death' water scarcity scenario endsreport.com/article/158561…
4/7 We've been reporting this stuff for years, including on the death of England's chalk streams
endsreport.com/article/152710…
Finally today, a water company agrees that the abstraction status quo is "unsustainable"
endsreport.com/article/159509…
5/7 Groundwater overall is in trouble too. It will be recharging less often in the near future, according to a new @EnvAgency report
endsreport.com/article/159508…
6/7 But there WILL be water. Lots of it, just not necessarily at the right time or in the right places. Expect more floods says the EA and 2 new studies in Nature
nature.com/articles/s4158…
nature.com/articles/s4161…
7/7 It's all a bit hell and high water today I'm afraid, sorry about that. If you're wondering who's going to feel the brunt first, you could do worse than look to coast:
endsreport.com/article/159222…

endsreport.com/article/152844…

I'm off to build a floating desalination plant
#WWWeek
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Dec 1, 2023
Big news!
We've been writing about PFAS pollution a lot and now one of them - PFOA - has been categorised as a carcinogen. It's been found in drinking water and PFAS are everywhere
‘Forever chemical’ in English tap water samples carcinogenic 1/6
theguardian.com/environment/20…
They've been found in drinking water sources across England and @leanahosea and I have found PFOA in tap water for @WATERSHED_i
2/
 ‘Forever chemicals’ found in drinking water sources across England
theguardian.com/environment/20…
We also tested effluent from a chemicals factory site which had extremely high levels of PFOA in it. 3/

Toxic substances from chemicals firm site found polluting protected rivertheguardian.com/environment/20…
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Oct 5, 2022
Lots of chest thumping about government slapping enormous (up to £250m) civil penalties on water companies for sewage pollution! It sounds shockingly like a good idea, but could it ever happen? And might it actually make things worse?

A few wee thoughts... 1/
At first glance, Ranil Jayawardena’s pledge to increase to the cap on civil penalties for water company pollution 1,000-fold, from £250k to £250m, appeared to be a big win for the environment. 2/
But the Environment Agency has already said it can't afford to fulfil its duties, it has pulled back from inspecting pollution incidents, it has fewer frontline officers, it's monitoring less, it's downgrading incidents, and it likes water firms to self-regulate... 3/
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Jan 31, 2022
Are the wheels coming off the Environment Agency?
A thread 1/8
At the end of last year, Environment Agency chief executive Sir James Bevan has sent a strongly worded message to staff warning them against speaking to the media. 2/8
endsreport.com/article/173532…
Whistleblowers promptly told ENDS that the agency has decided to ignore lower impact pollution incidents and leaked materials. 3/8
endsreport.com/article/173678…
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Apr 23, 2021
SEWAGE POLLUTION: The water sector is an “industry that seems frankly out of control”, which operates systems “designed to obfuscate and confuse” and regulators are “failing the public at every level” @CommonsEAC heard this wk. More choice quotes... (1/6)
endsreport.com/article/171383…
Prof Peter Hammond says water firms illegally polluting rivers "at least 10 times more" than the EA is identifying and prosecuting. 2/
Mogden sewage works in west London, the only treatment works with a volume-meter, spilled half a billion litres of raw sewage in 2015, an amount which swelled to 3.5bn litres last year. 3/
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Sep 28, 2020
Hurrah! Boris has announced new nature targets to help dodge the imminent ecological crisis!
Wait.
That's because we completely bombed on the last set of goals, which we had a DECADE to meet and now wildlife is clinging on by the skin of its teeth
Let's take a closer look: 1/10
Boris said 30% of the UK’s land will be protected by 2030.
In England 26% is already protected by law as national parks or AONBs, so it's really only a 4 percentage point increase here. 2/10
Even then, such designations count for little, according to some, because the existing protections have not stopped widespread habitat and species decline. National parks have been described as 'barren landscapes'. 3/10
endsreport.com/article/169481…
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Sep 27, 2020
Cor. And to think the firm is due to be sentenced for multiple breaches of environmental permits shortly (1/6)

Southern Water boss nets £538k bonus as cases of pollution soar thismon.ee/a/8775517 via @ThisIsMoney
Southern Water in court over 8,400 illegal pollution incidents (2/6)

endsreport.com/article/167397…
‘Truly sorry’: Southern Water pleads guilty to more than 50 pollution charges (3/6)
endsreport.com/article/167690…
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