Big River Watch: public to monitor UK and Irish rivers for pollution ( www.theguardian.com )

People in Britain and Ireland are being asked to monitor their local rivers for pollution so a leading water charity can measure the scale of the sewage crisis.

The Rivers Trust is this week launching the Big River Watch, asking people to record observations of their local rivers on a free app. The results will be made available through an interactive dashboard, and will help the organisation, as well as individuals and communities who can all access the data, to take action to improve rivers.

Volunteers will be asked to identify sewage pollution, sewage fungus, minewater and silt, along with other indicators of river health, so pollution hotspots can be identified and tackled. The Rivers Trust is hoping for it to be the UK and Ireland’s biggest ever mass participation survey of river health.

hitmyspot ,

Do they mean northern Ireland? This is the first I've seen that would suggest similar problems in ROI?

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The previous one included ROI - as you can see here.

River pollution is not only from sewage of course - a lot is from farming, and that is probably just as likely in ROI as in the UK.

hitmyspot ,

Oh, I get that. The impkovstion from the article was the same kind ofntun off that has been a big media story in the UK of late.

Its just frustrating for Irish people to constantly see British based press refer to bad stories about northern Ireland as ireland and positive toiries to be about Britain. It happens with athletes, politics etc too. The BBC and sky are worst but the guardian is not great.

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