WOW💙🩵. Thank you all SO much for the outpouring of love & support yesterday. We can’t wait for you to join us in London in just over 8 weeks time!🤩 Let's keep up the momentum: spread the word, rally your friends, make some noise. It's time to rescue Britain's waters! 🌊🫧🐟

Are you worried about 💩pollution in 🇬🇧 rivers spreading 'superbugs'? The Poo-Sticks project needs your help! This summer, we've been studying the gut microbiomes of river swimmers and are now looking for people who don't swim in rivers, lakes, or the sea. Your participation

Viewed more than 700,000 times so far! I really hope it's useful and worth the many hours of painstaking work, and fast tracking my myopia... 🤓

If you haven't seen it yet here is the 15 second version of the campaign video. Share it far and wide. #floodthestreets turn your outrage into action. Join us, Sat 26th Oct, Parliament Square. marchforcleanwater.org March for Clean Water

NEWS! We at Watershed are absolutely delighted to have support from the Pulitzer Center. Congratulations to Saroj Pathirana / සරෝජ් පතිරණ our new Ocean Pulitzer Fellow who will be investigating global shipping pollution. pulitzercenter.org/blog/introduci… Pulitzer Center watershed_investigations leanahosea

Industry acts to head off regulation on PFAS pollution from semiconductors theguardian.com/environment/ar…

"Channel 4 commissions sewage dumping drama from Partygate team." This is big news, really big news. Isle of Sh*te (working title), a factual drama that follows the sewage dumping scandal is to be made, on screens soon. rts.org.uk/article/channe…

"The time for talking's over, the time for being nice is over. It's time to put boots on the ground." Feargal Sharkey tells me why he's marching on Parliament in the new Watershed podcast ep: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the… Bit of a shock that up til now he was 'playing nicely'!

What would Feargal do to sort out the sewage clusterfudge? Listen to our new podcast episode to find out... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

A who's who of industry-funded scientists is cooking up what current/former EPA officials say is shady research to wield in the legal attack on the EPA's strong new drinking water limits for PFAS. Straight out of Big Tobacco's playbook theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

Join me at Cambridge University next month to hear me talk about our work on mapping the UK’s water crisis

REVEALED: the UK's methane hotspots! Unless the data compiled and modelled by the government is bilge. Which it very well may be. Read on: 1/2 theguardian.com/environment/ar…

England’s nature-friendly farming budget to be cut by £100m | Farming | The Guardian. Well so much for a bright new future. It will be time to say goodbye to much of the little that's left. theguardian.com/environment/ar…

A much better solution is to make large landowners publicly accountable for how they manage their land - improve value for money, rather than cutting the budget. And pull other policy levers - tougher regulation, more legal protections, increased public & community land ownership

Methane from farms/industry/landfill is a massive problem. I've mapped the UK's emissions hotspots but there's a scrap over whether the official gov figures are worth the paper they're written on... theguardian.com/environment/ar… Explore the map: watershedinvestigations.com/home/find-out-…

This time next week we will be getting ready for 'Mapping the UK's water crisis', a Social Data School public event with investigative journalist Rachel Salvidge from watershed_investigations Wednesday 11 September 17:30 - 19:00 SG1, Alison Richard Building Book below ⬇️ buff.ly/4fuaFOA

A pretty speech! But it sounds familiar. And how long will the review take? Surely it'll be a quickie given the problems are blindingly clear. A LITTLE LESS CONVERSATION A LITTLE MORE ACTION PLEASE Rivers, not drains Seas, not sewage Lakes, not slurry gov.uk/government/spe…