The misconnected pipes polluting urban rivers https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czd2qd00j9vo?at_medium=RSS/Mastodon
The misconnected pipes polluting urban rivers https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czd2qd00j9vo?at_medium=RSS/Mastodon
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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.
#SantaSusana #NuclearAccidents #LA #SSFL #SRE #hibakusha #contamination
#radioactive #children #rivers

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.
#DrivebyPhotography #SpooniePhotography #rivers #parks #trees
Blackfoot River Bubble 01
#rivers #environment #fineart #montana #art #montanaart #instagood #love #photography #photooftheday #bozeman #b&w #blackandwhite #fishing #flyfishing #whitewater #kayak
"River Wye granted rights in UK first that could help in fight against pollution"

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.
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…
https://www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/clarendon-bridge/
#AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage #Clarendon #Transport #Rivers&Creeks