England to diverge from EU water monitoring standards
England to diverge from EU water monitoring standards
www.theguardian.com
England to diverge from EU water monitoring standards
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is this going to impact the quality of beer and whiskey?
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Quantity is going to rise because now everybody will drink alcohol instead of water. like back In 1800’s
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well, maybe I'm onto something...
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It’s too bad alcohol doesn’t have an effect on microplastics :(
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
While in the EU, England was covered by the water framework directive (WFD), which meant a national chemical and ecological survey of rivers was conducted annually.
Activists say this may make it harder to compare the state of the country’s rivers against those in the EU, and will leave the public in the dark over pollution from sewage and agriculture.
To now not have a full assessment in 2022 and have to wait to 2025 … simply sows confusion and leaves the public in the dark when it comes to properly understanding whether our rivers are getting better or worse.”
Government officials told the stakeholder meeting that in 2022 only a limited number of water bodies were assessed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and budget cuts.
The Liberal Democrats’ environment spokesperson, Tim Farron, said: “Instead of clamping down on sewage dumping, ministers have let water companies off the hook and scaled back assessments so we could know exactly how much damage has been done.
That means abolishing Ofwat and setting up a new regulator with real teeth and ensuring that testing is carried out regularly so we can get a full picture of the damage being done to our countryside.”
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In the US these are done state by state with little consistency. The rivers and streams here in KS are all muddy and graded accordingly. But when they cross into MO they are suddenly pristine.
Because everyone knows what KS and MO mean, especially on a european sub.
Kentsucky and Mossossoppo.
They're US states, I'm sure if you really wanted to know which specific ones they are, you can look them up, and if you don't want to, OP's point doesn't actually rely on you knowing that they're Kansas and Missouri.
Let's make this about 'murica. Hello, fellow 'murican. Did you already coup a government on this fine day to replace their President with some dictator that will gladly sell out his country to our interests in favour of power? I love the smell of terrorism in the morning. Makes my petro dollar extra bloody.
it's fairly obvious from the context
EDIT: lol, this discussion is insane. So many downvotes haha, what a bunch of weirdos on lemmy.
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