Since 2012 two-thirds of funding has been cut by the government to monitor water quality and there has been an 83% reduction in formal water monitoring leaving the state of our waterways in a critical state.

Our freshwater environments are being destroyed by an avalanche of pollutants and we urgently need the government to take transformative action to repair the damage before it is too late.

Not a single river in the UK is currently in an overall state of ‘good’ chemical health and only 14% achieve good ecological health – down from the already embarrassingly low 16% of a few years ago.