Water pollution: How clean are the UK’s rivers and lakes?
England’s rivers are contaminated by a “chemical cocktail” of pollution- what’s being done to tackle the issue? …
Professor Steve Ormerod, an ecologist at Cardiff University, warns of other threats. He says: “We need to understand the risks which come with emerging pollutants – pharmaceuticals, microplastics. We don’t know, at this stage how big a problem they’re going to be.”