Last week’s report from the Environmental Audit Committee was picked up by numerous sources, including the BBC and the Guardian.

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The Guardian

Water companies in England should each designate a stretch of river as bathing water by 2025 to drive the clean-up of a chemical cocktail of sewage, agricultural waste and plastic pollution that is suffocating biodiversity and risking public health, MPs have said.

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CIWEM’s response highlighted “the extent and scale of the chronic neglect of our water environment. It (the report) cites decades of inadequate political will and regulation to deal with the complex range of pressures on rivers, the poor state of which is indicative of how badly we manage what’s upstream of them.”

Find the whole report, summary and evidence at the EAC website.