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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Helena Horton Environment reporter

83% of English rivers have evidence of high pollution from sewage and agriculture

Sewage and pollution floats on flood water on Cookham Moor in Berkshire.
Sewage and pollution floats on flood water on Cookham Moor in Berkshire. Photograph: Maureen McLean/Rex/Shutterstock

Eighty-three per cent of English rivers contain evidence of high pollution caused by sewage and agricultural waste, according to the largest citizen science water testing project ever to take place in the UK.

Hundreds of anglers took part in the study, organised by the Angling Trust, after being angered by the brown blooms of sewage in the waters they painstakingly tend for the benefit of fish.

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