The ‘Challenges and Choices Consulation’ from the Environment Agency is open now and will close on 24 April 2020. It covers England and includes the Severn and Northumbrian river basins.
The EA say: ‘We are seeking your views on the challenges our waters face and the choices and changes we all need to make to help tackle those challenges.
By responding to this consultation you will be helping to shape the management of the water environment.’
The questions are wide-ranging and are set in the context of climate change and the biodiversity crisis. There are 9 sections described as ‘challenges’ and they include water levels and flow, chemicals, physical modification, invasive non-natives, and pollution from plastics, mines, agriculture and rural areas, urban areas and transport and waste-water treatment.
We encourage everyone with an interest in our lakes and rivers and their wildlife to participate in the consultation.