Our waterways are a national treasure - shame on you, you horrid, greedy polluters

In the last two years, river pollution has risen up the leaderboard of environmental issues. These issues include road runoff - causing massive amounts of silt and car oil to enter the rivers - farmers spraying pesticides or raw sewage near water courses, and the big one is water companies polluting our rivers for profit.

From my perspective, the water companies just pay lip service to restricting sewage outflow and carry on regardless.Renationalising is too expensive but capping executive pay? Stopping dividends for the next 10 years? And being brutal to companies who have been brutal to our rivers and treated the general public as idiots?

I am a mother of two young children. We are all water babies and find swimming in the wilderness our happy place. I now must be very mindful before we enter any river course, testing for phosphate and nitrate. I do not want my children go through what I went through when I was sick a few years ago.Five people fall ill every day after swimming in Britain's polluted waters, as Feargal Sharkey reveals brush with deathThat said, I am not anti-Tory. Geoffrey Clifton-Brown in the Cotswolds has taken river pollution to his heart and been out cleaning up with me.

And maybe those people who pollute don’t give two hoots for my opinion but they will as their waterways turn into treacle or smell and foam and we all lose a national treasure.

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