UK Government Takes Step in The Right Direction for Hard-pressed Rivers

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Step in the Right Direction?
Coupling the revised attitude to abstraction with the attitude to flood-plain development, upland drainage schemes, mismanagement of micro-hydro schemes, dredging, lack of policing of pollution, disappearing reports, etc. and the steps being taken there - sometimes more of a sideways shuffle or even an about-face - one has to wonder if this is turning into more of a fandango than a purposeful stride to sensible policies. mg:

A lot of this should already have been done if the government had done what they should have done to conform with the Water Framework Directive, they haven't and I suspect this to be just another headline grab.

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Thanks for that Cliff, their views on fracking are interesting.