Britain’s rivers and coasts are polluted – there’s no escaping that fact and water companies are coming under more and more pressure to fix things but we all need to chip in and help. Here LK recommends three charities to get involved with so we can start cracking on the big clean up act now…
The Rivers Trust
Take part in a river clean up, WaterBlitz or habitat creation day for your local Rivers Trust.
Find out more at The Rivers Trust
Surfers Against Sewage
SAS are fighting to end sewage discharge into UK bathing waters.
Help them turn the tide at Surfers Against Sewage
Ocean Recovery Project
Keep Britain Tidy organises beach cleans and helps volunteer groups recover and recycle beach litter.
Get involved at Keep Britain Tidy
Water quality
Swimfo allows you to look up details of designated bathing areas nationwide. Use the search tool at environment.data. gov.uk and use the postcode tool.
Visit Swimfo for more information
