Clean Rivers for People and wildlife
This campaign is encouraging members to make and support applications to create bathing waters in rivers across England and Wales as a way to drive the cleanup of our precious waters.
Water quality in our rivers is shameful. Legally designated bathing waters must be regularly monitored for pollution. The NFWI urges its members, the wider public, local authorities, and Government to make, support and promote applications for officially designated bathing sites on appropriate stretches of rivers in their area. This will be instrumental to the clean-up of rivers as it has been for water quality improvement at coastal beaches.
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AND Towcester Evening WI was also represented!
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Further supporting the "Clean Rivers" campaign, we manned a stand at the White Water Rafting Centre in Northampton on celebrating WI Day 2024.
Two groups of members recently visited the Water Treatment Centre at Billing, Northampton. Kitted out in boots and hi-vis jackets we were given a really interesting tour around the extensive water treatment facility. One of the largest in the UK we were given a huge amount of information about what happens when water enters the drains from our homes, factories, hospitals etc and also from rainfall. With all the publicity about the state of waterways and coasts, it proved to be most interesting afternoon .
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