鈥淚t鈥檚 depressing. It鈥檚 something we should be able to put right,鈥 says Mark Purvis, standing next to a brook feeding the Evenlode, a river in the Cotswolds area of southern England that has been plagued with water pollution in recent years. 鈥淲e鈥檝e seen declines in numbers of fish, insects and weed growth in the river. And terrible turbidity [cloudiness] in summer,鈥 he says.
The Evenlode鈥檚 problems aren’t unique. England鈥檚 rivers are 鈥渁 mess鈥, , due to a lack of funding and monitoring…
