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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Rebecca Speare-Cole

UK and Welsh governments announce £1m fund to tackle River Wye pollution

The River Wye at Brockweir in the Wye Valley. (Barry Batchelor/PA) - (PA Archive)

The UK and Welsh governments have announced a joint £1 million research initiative for the heavily polluted River Wye.

The river, which runs for 130 miles from central Wales to the Severn Estuary in south-west England, has seen its water quality and wildlife drastically decline after years of exposure to agricultural pollution, sewage discharges and phosphates.

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