The River Cam prior to water shortages. Picture: Phoebe Taplin
- Credit: Phoebe Taplin
The MP for South Cambridgeshire has welcomed the creation of the government’s Chalk Streams Working Group, to tackle the continued over-abstraction and water shortage problems faced in the county.
It is part of a range of measures and initiatives that Anthony Browne has been pushing for to help save the county’s threatened chalk streams.
Anthony Browne - South Cambs MP. Picture: Stephen Frost
- Credit: Stephen Frost
Working with Water Resources East and the Cam Valley Forum, Mr Browne has campaigned to raise concerns about local chalk streams, which produce incredibly clear flows from stores of underground water that are normally replenished when it rains.