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Unpacking the 2024 Annual Sewage Spill Data

  • The Rivers Trust
  • News
This week, the summaries of the 2024 event duration monitoring on CSOs in England and Wales were released. Our technical experts dug into the data on raw sewage spills into our rivers so you don’t have to — and it’s not good news.

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Great Yorkshire Rivers — Yorkshire Water Funding Announcement

  • Matthew Woodard
Yorkshire Water supports Great Yorkshire Rivers Partnership with £3.4m following the conclusion of Ofwat investigation

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Visiting the Start Line: Gearing Up for the World’s Toughest Row

  • The Rivers Trust
Jake Still, who is set to row the Atlantic in 2025 to raise funds for The Rivers Trust and Aire Rivers Trust, shares his firsthand experience of visiting La Gomera, where he watched the 2024 crews embark on their journey and gained valuable insights for his own challenge ahead.

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Annual Conference on blue-green algae: call for submissions

  • Rebecca Duncan
The Rivers Trust’s Annual Conference in 2025 will examine the vast impacts of blue-green algal blooms on waterbodies whilst uncovering the root causes of how and why they occur, and the integral roles played by our rivers and catchments. 

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The Rivers Trust Movement demands urgent release of Water Restoration Fund money in letter to Minister

  • Matthew Woodard
The Rivers Trust Movement has written to Water Minister Emma Hardy, calling on her to ensure money currently sitting unused in the Water Restoration Fund is paid out to start the task of reversing harm on the environment.

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Water Stewardship in practice: a new wetland to improve water quality in the River Frome

  • Matthew Woodard
This World Wetlands Day, we’re excited to share the completion of a brand-new farm wetland — a powerful example of nature-based solutions in action!

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fish jump up a river through white water

Email Template: Call on EDF to protect species in the Severn Estuary with Hinkley Point AFD

  • The Rivers Trust
  • Blog
Use our email template to contact your representative, and support our petition calling for the EDF to install the Acoustic Fish Deterrent at Hinkley Point to prevent mass annual fish death in the power station’s cooling water intake pipes.

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Salmon leaping up rushing water

Save Severn Estuary’s Fish: Demand Action from Hinkley

  • The Rivers Trust
  • Blog
Hinkley Nuclear Power Station must not remove protection for millions of fish in the Severn Estuary. Sign our petition and help us hold EDF accountable and ensure the Severn Estuary’s ecosystems are protected.

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Have your say on the Bathing Water Rules Consultation: Our guide to submitting a response

  • The Rivers Trust
  • Blog
The consultation on Reform to Bathing Water Rules is open, and is an important opportunity to help make designation the powerful tool for improving river water health that it has the potential to be. To help you form your consultation response, we have set out our key thoughts on the main consultation questions.

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Understanding the Bathing Water Rules Reform: Why now is not the time to give up on river bathing waters

  • The Rivers Trust
With a public consultation open on proposed changes to bathing water rules in England and Wales, and poor health classifications recently issued for bathing water sites in England, our experts explain the role of bathing water designation and discuss how, with reform, the designation system could be a powerful tool for protecting and improving our waters.

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