https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7542069/amp/How-Feargal-Sharkey-leading-fight-against-greedy-water-companies-draining-chalk-streams.html

He’s doing good work. Chalk streams are so important.

Daily Mail?

No thanks.

Yawn.

Of course, it can’t be an interesting or important story can it?

Of course, it can’t be an interesting or important story can it?

Of course it can be. Just that if it is, there’ll be a better source for it along soon enough.

Streams are pretty much screwed anyway. Signal Crayfish

Don’t panic, there is a thing called google that has the answer if you don’t want to click the link above 😉

Yawn.

Of course, it can’t be an interesting or important story can it?

It may well but I won’t give that vial rag any business.

Cheers Bent.

Radio 4 podcast “Ramblings” with Claire Balding from May. She and Feargal walk various streams south London and Surrey.

I listened to it genuinely impressed by his knowledge. Glad I don’t need to read the Mail article.

Yep lots of info on Google and his twitter feed, there’s nothing new in the Mail article – I’ll allow myself the click if it’s work-related 🙂

Important ecological issue in South East England. For signal crayfish, the chalk stream headwaters are some of the few remaining footholds for our native crayfish and they are the most vulnerable habitats to these abstraction-related issues.

Key point is “use less water”. Spoilerz.

I  was trying to find an infographic to back up his concerns but a good chart is hard to find.

I  was trying to find an infographic to back up his concerns but a good chart is hard to find.

Oh that’s good. 👍🏼

@zippykona 😀👏👏

Tread carefully guys, it seems it’s not us ‘snowflake’ socialists who go running to the mods.

Move over percjypanther, there’s a new kid in town 🙂

@zippykona – chapeau!!  😅😂🤣

After the recent attempt to dox Jolyon Maugham the DM and MoS are banned from this premises. Seems the 30’s failure still rankles with the Rothermeres and they want another go.

Thanks to the other posters for alternate sources of information.

Good old Feargal.

https://www.ft.com/content/b3ba1684-d875-11e8-a854-33d6f82e62f8

Substitute “greedy consumers” for “greedy water companies”. When I worked in the water industry I found public expectations strange. Pristine rivers flowing through a mixture of intensive agriculture and urban areas. Perfect tap water despite the mass of chemicals in their own garden sheds. Water flowing through their taps without any nasty reservoirs, or dams or river extraction or boreholes drawing down aquifers… . I trust Fergal has a saw dust toilet, collects rain water and has his own treatment system.

Comparing with Denmark is cherry picking. Britain has a lower per-capita water use than most comparable industrial countries. As with cutting energy use it’s mainly down to the consumer. If you want less CO2 then take out your gas central heating and insulate. If don’t want aquifers being drawn down then reduce your consumption of mains water.

@zippykona – that’s very, very good, it slipped past me for a few seconds, your today’s winner of the Internet! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎩
Abstraction is a problem locally to me, involving the amount of water Swindon draws from the area around the source of the Winterbourne, which becomes the River Kennet near Silbury Hill.
Although the Winterbourne, A’s it’s name suggests, is a river that is active in the winter, but can and will dry out during the summer, increasing abstraction by Swindon is reducing water available to the river to critically low levels, and there’s little will on the part of Swindon to revise the sources of its water. Generally the situation around North Wiltshire is ok, water is drawn from a variety of different ground sources, but Swindon doesn’t. It’s not unusual to walk alongside the Winterbourne between Avebury and Silbury Hill and see a dry riverbed, instead of crystal clear flowing water, during the winter.

Interesting activism, certainly not the kind to get you on the front page of the paper but you have to admire his commitment to this issue. I think it’s a combination of people reducing their personal use of water and better regulation of the water companies.

better regulation of the water companies.

🤣🤣🤪🤹‍♂️

#shareholdersreturns

#theylieandmanipulatethierowntests

#southernwater

After the recent attempt to dox Jolyon Maugham the DM and MoS are banned from this premises.

Used to be the case here but I clicked on the link and it took me straight there… strange.

I went for a walk from Silbury Hill up to West Kennet Long Barrow this afternoon, following the Winterbourne to the Swallowhead Spring, at which point the river becomes the Kennet, then from there along to the footpath up to the barrow.
That bit I did walking along the completely dry riverbed.

The Swallowhead is directly under the right-hand trunk of the willow on the other side of the stepping stones. I’ve been there when the water level has been almost over those stones; but not recently.