LAKE POLLUTION
WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?
Water samples taken by the South Cumbria Rivers Trust have found high levels of phosphorous in Windermere, England’s longest lake. Often described as the jewel in the Lake District crown, it is a hugely popular destination for millions of visitors every year. Phosphorous, however, is a key indicator of sewage and a driver for ecologically harmful and toxic algae blooms and production of blue-green cyano-bacteria.
In the first decade of this century, the Still Waters Partnership, a coalition of organisations including the National Trust, the Environment Agency, English Nature and the Lake District National Park Authority, discovered that the majority of
