One of Britain’s most loved rivers has been described as an “open sewer” as vast amounts of manure pollute the once-pristine waters.
The River Wye, straddling the border of England and Wales, is a special area of conservation but is suffering from its location at the centre of intensive poultry production, involving over 20 million birds at any time.
We hear a lot about water companies’ overflows of human sewage, but animal muck is causing a bigger problem, especially in rivers in the west of the country.
