UK: Only 5 of 6.000 rivers pristine

[treesparrow]

Headlines -

Most English and Welsh rivers too dirty for new European standards

Report says only 5 of 6,114 are in pristine condition

Government could be taken to court or fined.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/sep/22/pollution-rivers-environment-agency-england

 

[Voyageur]

Thanks treesparrow for the link – haunting as always the way we care for our water.

A thought provoking work on issues of water was written by Marq de Villiers called ‘Water’. There are some remarkable and sad stories about its quantitative state on this planet.

Also, a book was written called ‘Water Wars’ by Diane Raines Ward with some very interesting discussions about Holland and historical hydrological damming, engineering and the upstream political power influences and the downstream trickles that are the effects, i.e. look to Euphrates, Nile, Colorado, etcetera.