Death of a river: a community fights back against their water company
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- Опубліковано 12 тра 2024
- Angela Jones has spent her life swimming in the Rivers Wye and Usk. Five years ago she began to notice the impact of pollution and decided to fight back. Now an army of volunteers have come together to gather data and evidence, and bring about change, before it is too late.
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We all need to protest in any way possible. More power to Angela and her group. I’d love to help.
Please can you post links to their channels & websites.
Why the likes of utilities are private companies is part of the problem, profit over everything else, we need to make these companies understand that they have to clean up their act and they need to help to educate the general public also not spend money advertising. I’m looking at you Thames Water advertising to the likes of myself who live completely outside your area, why!
Well done it’s about time people started standing up to these big companies. 👍
More stories like this, please!
This woman is an inspiration, as are all the people who've joined her to clean up & care for their little corner of the planet.
Well done you! Thank you for standing against the polluters.
Great work by the community.
This is what happens when profits are not reinvested in the infrastructure. It's a disgrace.
Good woman well done
Put this brave lady in charge. Brilliant.
Where are the Environment Agency ?
Environment Agency run by Tories is like a theme park run by satan
Complacent and in denial.Their staff rarely visit to observe rivers and experience the declines and challenges.
They will however prosecute me if I dont pay my rod licence.
Terrible. I worked at coca cola in OZ. They had their own water treatment on site. The water had to be pure to use.
It also had to be clean to go back into the river.
It was monitored all day with tech. We used to physically inspect it every day.
Not difficult to do. Certainly affordable for large companies.
I fished rivers in the Uk. Even back in the 80s we questioned why we paid fees as rivers never got the right attention.
In the UK it’s all about money, making the richer
Making the rich richer
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Wow she’s ripped! She is super impressive- she seems the type of disciplined person who gets stuff done. I am glad she decided to fight for clean water!! I feel like she is the kind of person who can actually make a difference.
Tory Britain
Why do the Greens think men are women?
Well done, You are certainly making an impact
Nice work. Ur awesome sauce from l.a california
and making customers pay for their lack of improving water systems over many years they need to be taken to court
As well as the water companies discharging, there are misconnected domestic property grey water/ toilet drains attached to surface water drains installed by either victorian plumbers or modern day incompetent workers straight into water courses.
The latter
Here in Brasil fortaleza is worse. 😮.
BRING BACK THE DUNKING STOOL!
for the politicians
Why cant shit b used as fertilizer?
Are there any clean rivers left in anglopestland? 😂
Everyone cares or is concerned about the climate but not about their environment that can be polluted
Welcome to the world outside of paradise
‘It's a community coming together’: an army of volunteers fight to save their river 1244pm 13.4.23 probably what the germans and romanians etc need to do to save the danube... communal aktions stink, in the main, though. but gud luck!!!
Well, in Regensburg people are swimming in the Danube, in Vienna it has drinking water quality.
If you look at the Rhine river or even the river Ruhr you can see what local communities can achieve.
@@peter_meyer ‘Shit happens’: a community fights to save their river 2112pm 13.4.23 i have just watched a skit re: florida flooding due to sever rains.. evidence of what folk have to go through when infrastructure is not geared to dealing with such events.. maybe even California will have to get ready to deal with issues of a watery nature..? as for danube, and if news skits via germany are to be believed, the danube... due to mass forest clearances in Romania and the like and due to re-routing of water courses, is losing it's power and has dried up in some regions - if i believe the news casts i am watching, that is... these eco idiots will believe what suits them - champion such aktions as the guardian, here, highlights then pooh-pooh other issues which bring to light communities ruining their environments...
Heroes!!!
where is esg activists
Heroes aren't people fighting on foreign soil. It's people like this lady. If all of us did 10% of what she's doing we'd live in a way better world.
Supporting Ukraine and forgetting their own rivers lol
You're a couple hundred years too late, no undoing the sins of the world.
'I am dyslexic' and nobody seemed to care
Speak to Matt Hancock ;-)
Um can we please censor the language in the video title thank you Guardian
If they cleaned the river up we'd have clean free water and not have to pay these thieves