The River Lea's monitors show how vulnerable it is in the summer.
Warm water holds less oxygen but sun boosts photosynthesis.
Today's clouds mean less oxygen (the red ovals).
We're lucky there wasn't more rain to wash pollution off paved areas. In 2023 thousands of fish died.
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Cutting sewer overflows with green infrastructure will look a lot like Queen Caroline Estate in West London.
Lots of spaces to slow rain so it doesn't overwhelm sewers.
It helps cut surface water flood risk in Hammersmith & urban heating.
It creates better living spaces too.
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Pleased to announce we have twinned the Bagmati River in Nepal with the Thames.
The bond was marked in Kathmandu today at a ceremony to mark Sithi Nakha & a more modest one in London.
A partnership between London Waterkeeper & Bagmati River Waterkeeper.
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Thanks to the @BigGive donations to @LDNWaterkeeper will be DOUBLED until midday on Tuesday the 29th April. Please share and spread the word to give a stronger voice to London's rivers! Donate here 🐟 https://t.co/gXl8kQHXjD @Waterkeeper
Fantastic result for rivers.
Thank you @FishLegal_ and @pickeringfish.
Every river needs a detailed improvement plan. That the Environment Agency said they didn't was absurd.
As the judge said they must "identify a programme or scheme of actions for each water body".
Now do it!
So much crammed into this part of the Thames.
Photo taken from the former Beckton Gas Works, with the Victorian pillars of the coal ship piers in the foreground.
To the left Beckton Sewage Works.
Towering above it all Barking Creek Barrier on the tidal Roding.
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“My Favourite Camps of 2024” on my new blog - inspired by posts by Chris Townsend, @AshRouten and @dribelad. The best nights of the year are always spent camping - here are my highlights 🏕️ https://t.co/Vvq9nKWSJu
This day last year at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, AZ. A 1 sq mi park set aside in 1892 to preserve the remains of an Ancestral Sonoran Desert People's community and irrigation system. It was built around 1350 C.E. and abandoned about 1450. An incredible place!
Today’s #PostboxSaturday 📮is a local Homerton Victoria - dating it to 1837-1901. As it’s in front of ‘60s flats I thought the original buildings must’ve been bombed in WWII, but I looked it up and a paint factory was on the site but was demolished to make way for social housing.
Good morning and happy #FingerpostFriday 🌅 🪧 Today’s entry is from my Christmas Day walk on the Norfolk Coast Path to Wells-next-the-Sea. Behind the fingerpost is the famous crab-pot Christmas tree 🦀 🎄