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Hampshire chalk rivers security given in House of Lords
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Anglers left reeling after being told to pass health and safety exams to carry on fishing
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Plans to build an energy-hungry desalination plant in the New Forest national park to provide drinking water for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight have been condemned by campaigners including the broadcaster Chris Packham.
Southern Water’s proposal for a £600m plant at Fawley to convert saltwater from the Solent into tap water during droughts has been formally opposed by the New Forest national park authority. A separate petition against the plan has attracted several thousand signatures.
The water company has said the plant would enable it to extract less water from ecologically sensitive chalk streams such as the Test and the Itchen. Residents objecting to the plant say it is a “bizarre” and “expensive” solution for projected water shortages in southern England, with Britain’s total water supply forecast to drop by 7% by 2045. The National Audit Office recently warned that water companies would need to reduce the amount they e
The club is supporting an initiative set up by the Wye Salmon Association which is co-ordinating phosphate testing and providing equipment to clubs and riparian owners on the river. Stuart Singleton-White, campaigns head at the Angling Trust, said: “The Ross-on-Wye Angling Club have shown the alarming levels of phosphate found in the Wye at Ross. “Levels that the wholly inadequate monitoring carried out by both NRW and EA have failed to detect. “These regulators know they are falling down on the job. Unfortunately, this is not a problem only found in the River Wye. “In an assessment published last year, every water body covered by the Water Framework Directive failed in terms of the chemical standards that govern water quality.”
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