Seven stretches of Scottish rivers totalling more than 45 miles (73km) in length are not expected to fully recover due to pollution from sewage, according to data from the environmental regulator 💧 ChrisGreenNews reports
Reasons for them being given this status range from rural pollution caused by fertiliser and pesticides through to invasive species and man-made barriers to the migration of fish.
A 5-mile part of the How Burn, which runs alongside part of the M8 motorway, is also not expected to reach “good” status before 2027 due to sewage discharges. Jonathan Louis, interim director of the Forth Rivers Trust, said: “It’s shocking that 73km of Scotland’s rivers won’t achieve good status by 2027, specifically due to waste water discharge.
Craig Macadam, convener of the freshwater group at the charity Scottish Environment LINK, added: “Wastewater continues to pollute rivers in Scotland, and is just one of the factors that affects water quality and limits the processes that make our rivers more resilient to climate change and other impacts.“Instead, we should be investing in cleaning up our rivers and restoring natural flow processes to give them and the species which rely upon them the best chances for the future.
The spokeswoman said: “However, this isn’t supported by our assessment of the plants and animals in the rivers – these show no evidence of any of the adverse effects that elevated concentrations of nutrients can produce
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