Citizen scientists join fight to clean up rivers

[Chris Plumb]

Advantages of a slow news day - this was featured quite prominently on the Beeb this morning....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63747838

[chesters1]

Yes i saw it but nothing will be done ,its not jobbies or farm runoffs thats the problem its what huge multinationals sell us to tip down the drains . Does sewage farms extract ,bleach? Toilet cleaners? Washing up liquid ? Washing capsule whose contents are so deadly they now have to be hidden from kids? Disinfectant? Etc etc

Its what you  cant see thats the problem no home grown test kit can discriminate between chemicals and even if they could huge multinationals would silence them .

Nothing will happen until you punish bosses of water companies personally and fine big business bosses personaly and ban the sale of their chemicals and force water companies to remove chemicals of all kinds before putting the water in rivers or seas ,fining a company is just fining its customers in raising prices to cover the fines ,hitting the bosses in the pockets with multi million £ fines will get them thinking. Then ofcourse you have to do it worldwide or it will be pointles

A simple law that any water entering another water MUST be cleaner than the water its entering would do the trick .

If i were incharge any "water" entering another water would have to be distilled or reverse osmosis water would be the norm ,THEN force everyone else to do it ! I have been filtering every drop i drink for decades and using RO water on top for a year? If i can do it i am sure they can.They just need the bosses losing everything they own to buck their ideas up!

Edited December 31, 2022 by chesters1

[Norm B]

Totally agree but money talks and BIG money talks louder.The government will never really hurt big sewerage company's with BIG fines because their shareholders pay tax on their dividends,the company pays corporation tax and  big fines that really hurt would affect their share price.