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Treated sewage released into rivers may hamper eel migrations

European eels avoid swimming through plumes of effluent from sewage treatment plants, which could delay their journeys and use up precious energy reserves

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Activist angler, Jim Murray

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Jim Murray: The 'activist angler' collecting data to improve rivers

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Mass fish deaths will occur more often in rivers as UK gets hotter

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The river Teifi at Cenarth falls, Wales

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Welsh wetland under ecological threat from upstream river pollutants

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River Thames was pumped full of oxygen in 2022 to prevent fish deaths

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The river Teifi at Cenarth falls, Wales

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The river Teifi: How agricultural waste is destroying this Welsh river

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CF2MRN Sheep grazing on the banks of the River Till at Twizel, a tributary of the River Tweed.

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Farming destroyed UK rivers to meet food demand – here's how we fix it

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Cwmystwyth mines and the river Ystwyth in Wales, UK

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Mine waste and rivers: The legacy toxins re-entering our waterways

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Scum floating on the River Ribble near Clitheroe in Lancashire, UK

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UK river pollution monitoring is 50 years out of date, say researchers

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How you can help save Britain's rivers by becoming a citizen scientist

As part of New Scientist's Save Britain's Rivers campaign, we've rounded up the best citizen science projects that let you play an active role in improving the nation's waterways

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Plan to restore England's chalk streams may take decades

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Raw sewage floods UK rivers with faecal bacteria after heavy rainfall

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Inside London's super sewer: Keeping raw sewage out of the Thames

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Inside the huge London super sewer designed to fight river pollution

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