Its depressing. Its something we should be able to put right, says Mark Purvis, standing next to a brook feeding the Evenlode, a river in the Cotswolds area of southern England that has been plagued with water pollution in recent years. Weve seen declines in numbers of fish, insects and weed growth in the river. And terrible turbidity [cloudiness] in summer, he says.
The Evenlodes problems aren’t unique. Englands rivers are a mess, , due to a lack of funding and monitoring…
