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Rivers are especially vulnerable to water abstraction and global heating, but now there is hope for River Chess

FAMILIES with small children and pets seen playing in a stream that might be contaminated with sewage has sparked outrage among locals who said it was a “disturbing” sight – adding they were ‘disgusted’ by a lack of warning signs put up by a utility provider. Thames Water has come under fire over a lack of safety measures along the stream in Hughenden Park after one resident reported sewage overflowing into the water back in February which they said had gone on “for years” – and after another person saw families in the water at the weekend seemingly unaware of the dangers.

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 ...