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    The A-Z of river health

    Jun 10, 2021 6 minutes
    WRITTEN BY JOHN BAILEY

    Our rivers are under threat and this affects not just keen fishers but all of us. Our brains are about 75% water, our muscles 75%, our kidneys 85% and plasma in our blood 92%, so in a very real way our rivers are the veins of life. We are all dependent on water but there is much to decry about the state of our rivers in the UK. John Bailey is our guide to what needs taking into account, from A-Z.

    ACRONYMS AND INITIALISMS

    The EA (Environment Agency) and NE (Natural England) need little explanation but then there is NRW (Natural Resources Wales), SEPA (Scottish Environment Protection Agency), Ofwat (Water Services Regulation Authority) and even CSOs (Combined Sewer Overflows). is nothing compared to all this but there is a serious point to be made: there are so many bodies charged with looking after our rivers nobody knows who is doing what and most are doing far too little. Most would agree that WTT (Wild Trout Trust) is doing fine with WUF (Wye

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