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October in australia, and yet more flooding rain. these scenes from the state of victoria, as the country went on to record its second wettest spring. a rare third consecutive la nina weather pattern produced deluge after deluge in the south—east of the country. and for sydney, a truly remarkable year — its wettest in data going back to 1859, a record the city broke with nearly three months of the year still left. few places have been harder hit than lismore, one of the most flood—prone places in new south wales. but even here, the floods in february were the worst they'd known. we liter...

Muck from poultry farms. but only some of that is absorbed by crops. the rest is excess. you're left with a difference of about 3,000 tonnes of phosphorus that's above the crop requirement of what we would call a surplus. which is nationally very high, it's about 60% greater than the national average. fundamentally, if you have a surplus, you have too much phosphorus in your environment, it's likely that you're going to have worse water quality. the data shows quite clearly, there are parts of the catchment where soil phosphorus levels are already high enough, if not even a little bit too high...

0ur agricultural land use has changed. poultry units just did not exist at the top of that catchment 15 years ago. what we've seen is a huge burst of poultry units in a very short amount of time, which has saturated that landscape. there are startling figures on the number of intensive poultry farms that have sprung up. powys council only started keeping records from 2018. but we've discovered the rapid growth in intensive farming started a decade earlier. since 2008, planning permission has been extended to dozens of intensive poultry farms and barn extensions every year. today, there are now...

Much of that by spreading muck from poultry farms. but only some of that is absorbed by crops. the rest is extra. you're left with a difference of about 3000 tonnes of phosphorus that is above the crop requirement of what we would call a surplus. which is nationally very high, it's about 60% greater than the national average. fundamentally, if you have a surplus, you are too much phosphorus in your environment, it is likely that you are going to have worse water quality. the data shows quite clearly, there are parts of the catchment where soil phosphorus levels are very high, if not a little b...

0ur agricultural land use has changed. poultry units just did not exist at the top of that catchment 15 years ago. what we've seen is a huge burst of poultry units in a very short amount of time, which has saturated that landscape. there are startling figures on the number of intensive poultry farms that have sprung up. council only started keeping records from 2018. but we discovered the rapid growth in intensive farming started a decade earlier. since 2008, planning has been extended to dozens of poultry farmers and barn extensions every year. today, there are now more