A proposed £1.2bn scheme to #recycle #effluent from the #sewage system and turn it in to #DrinkingWater has been criticised as a threat to the #environment and a potential costly “white elephant”.

#SouthernWater says it wants to protect rare #ChalkStreams, but campaigners say it could pollute the #Solent
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/13/12bn-plan-to-turn-sewage-waste-into-drinking-water-branded-a-dangerous-white-elephant
#England

Not here much these days but for nicer reasons. Just sharing a little bit of Sunday morning tranquility with you.
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Autumn leaves glide quietly passed on a chalkstream of liquid autumn glass. The bed a mirage of evaporating mossy flint. Tones of verdigris through to russet in the bare red riverside shrubs overhanging the far side.

Scents of deep peaty earth and summer wild foliage in beautiful decay of dull mint and wild garlic

#Winchester #KeatsWalk #Itchen #Chalkstreams #nature

WildFish: Southern Water drought measures could kill Atlantic salmon | Hampshire Chronicle
https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/23772771.wildfish-southern-water-drought-measures-kill-atlantic-salmon/

#Salmon
#ChalkStreams
#SouthernWater
#OverExtractionOfWater

Salmon stocks again on the decline in Hampshire rivers | Hampshire Chronicle
https://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/23724895.salmon-stocks-decline-hampshire-rivers/

#Rivers
#Salmon
#ChalkStreams
#EA
#GWCT
#Heatwaves
#ClimateChange
#ClimateCrisis
#LowRiverFlow

"England’s rivers at risk as Michael Gove rips up rules on new housing"

This will have my local (Tory) MP Oliver Heald squirming with embarrassment. He likes chalk streams, does our Oliver. His colleague Michael Gove prefers a different kind of chalk. Oh yes.

#WaterPollution #ChalkStreams #OliverHeald #HouseBuilding #HousingCrisis #MichaelGove #ThereseCoffey

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/28/uk-rivers-at-risk-as-michael-gove-rips-up-rules-on-new-housing