The misconnections polluting the River Wandle with waste water

A misconnection happens when wastewater is incorrectly diverted into surface drains.

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running down intermittent streams past a children's camp (the Brandeis-Barden Institute) and directly into the headwaters of the Los Angeles River. This pulls a toxic path directly into the watersheds and residential backyards of half a million people living within just 10 miles of the site.

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Beads of Courage

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Enjoying breakfast al fresco at my favorite accessible riverside hang, after dropping by a pharmacy for my latest COVID shot, scheduled to kick in just in time for our town's Pride festival and my chorus's Pride concert.

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A dangerous dam‑building race is threatening South Asia’s shared rivers | The-14

South Asia’s river crisis deepens as Bangladesh, India and China expand massive dam projects threatening water security, ecosystems and diplomacy.

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🇪🇺 Europe removed a record number of dams in 2025 to help #rivers flow freely again and restore #wildlife habitats. Conservationists say dismantling outdated barriers is already helping fish populations and river ecosystems recover across the continent.

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Record number of dams dismantled in Europe in effort to help wildlife thrive

Weirs, culverts and sluices among 602 barriers demolished in year in attempt to restore 15,500 miles of rivers by 2030

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River Wye granted rights in UK first that could help in fight against pollution

Charter to be adopted along river’s entire catchment from Cambrian mountains to Chepstow and Bristol Channel

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#EarthSystem #biosphere: "Global warming is causing #rivers to slowly lose oxygen, threatening #fish and other lives in the waterways, a new study shows." https://apnews.com/article/rivers-oxygen-loss-dead-zone-global-warming-38b9116cc127f4212b1c20da08af0416
Fish are at risk as warming world chokes off oxygen in rivers

Global warming is causing rivers to slowly lose oxygen, threatening fish and other lives. A study released Friday of more than 21,000 rivers worldwide shows they have lost an average of 2.1% of their oxygen since 1985. India’s Ganges River is losing oxygen 20 times faster than the global rate. Most of the oxygen loss is because warmer water holds less dissolved oxygen, but pollution and dams also contribute. As climate change worsens, rivers in the Eastern United States, India and the tropics could potentially see fish die-offs and dead zones by the end of the century.

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Clarendon Bridge

In 1858 a young woman broke a champagne bottle against the new timber bridge at Clarendon, naming it for the village below. The ford it replaced had tested every cart and carrier on the road south for twenty years. Sixty years later the timber was rotting — the ford pressed into service one last time before a concrete arch took its…

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