Iconic chalk stream faces new abstraction threat

[FishingMagic]

Just a year after Southern Water were forced to temper their water abstraction ambitions on the lower River Test and commit to major long-term infrastructure investments instead, they have now applied for a drought permit to allow increased abstraction this summer, justified by an alleged ‘exceptional shortage of rain’.


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[Peter Jacobs]

A significant victory and one that was hard fought for.

 

[theartist]

It's time water was treated as an unsustainable resource until water comapanies put in the infrastructure to suggest otherwise