#SaveTheWye campaigns for a better future for our river. It is made up of local groups from across the catchment fighting to save the Wye.
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MANIFESTO FOR THE WYE
With the general election due 4 July, today we unveil our urgent plan to #SavetheWye.
This has been created by our network of local groups and is based on the best scientific understanding of the problems the river faces. 🧵
👉wyemanifesto.org/
WYE’S COUNCIL a new short film about the Wye Charter.
‘Wye’s Council - A Council-led River Charter’ made by Charlotte Sawyer (Rave on for the Avon) and Vey Straker (Lady Wye) especially for Councils and Councillors in other parts of the UK.
youtu.be/WLKfoEehR1k?si=Xlvi…
#rightsofnature
It is the story of how four councillors from four authorities and four different political parties worked together to achieve a catchment-wide and rivers-length agreement.
Supported by:
River Rights Network
Funded by:
@RiverActionUK
Save The Wye Coalition retweeted
A glimpse of our Monday. We travelled from the Wye Valley to Westminster to lobby our MPs and ask them to challenge the government’s proposed Poultry Growth Strategy. This plan is being dreamed up (nightmared up 🧟♂️) by Defra and the Big Chicken lobby without community engagement
Save The Wye Coalition retweeted
Off to @fromIGD conf tmrw –v worried that food industry thinks biodiversity is a few flower margins & hurts productivity. wrong. Nature underpins future, resilient food systems & can reduce floods, wildfires £bns/yr -better soils, roots, peatlands etc Blog wildlifetrusts.org/blog/vick…
Save The Wye Coalition retweeted
Lack of Autumn rains so far means the drought situation continues to deteriorate.
Parts of southern England now in severe drought (the highest category).
Make no mistake, a dry autumn and winter would mean big problems next year.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwm2…
Save The Wye Coalition retweeted
Pollutants that survive treatment are discharged into rivers, lakes + seas as “treated effluent”.
Chemicals that bind to solid waste can end up in the sewage sludge spread on farm fields as fertliser.
Our new investigation with @RiverActionUK, out now:
theguardian.com/environment/…
Save The Wye Coalition retweeted
608bn litres of industrial wastewater entered sewage plants last year.
Sources include power stations, abattoirs, landfill, some with consents for chemicals such as mercury + cyanide - entering plants not designed to treat such waste.
Our new report:
theguardian.com/environment/…
Save The Wye Coalition retweeted
🚨 Water companies have made at least £1.4 BILLION from industrial wastewater in six years.
Our investigation with @Watershed_i reveals:
💰 Water companies reported £336 million in trade-effluent revenue in 2025/26 alone, with reported revenues almost doubling since 2020/21.
🏭 607.6 billion litres of industrial wastewater was consented to enter sewage treatment works last year. That’s enough to fill around 242,000 Olympic swimming pools!
This wastewater can contain substances including PFAS, cyanide, mercury and pharmaceuticals. These chemicals enter our waterways and contaminate sewage sludge, which is spread on our land and used to grow our food.
Yet there is no independent regulator overseeing individual trade-effluent consents and no central national register.
🔎 Read our full investigation and uncover the hidden industrial wastewater trade: 👇
riveractionuk.com/news/water…
Save The Wye Coalition retweeted
The rapidly changing climate is having many impacts.
The hot dry summer not only led to water shortages and low rivers but also increased nutrient pollution (due to lack of dilution).
Most English rivers suffering from raised phosphates.
Map by George Robson.
Save The Wye Coalition retweeted
Say it like it is, Stewart 👏🐔
Our rivers can’t take any more chicken sh💩t.
We’re calling for an end to the reckless expansion of industrial poultry production and for Big Chicken to take responsibility for the waste it produces.
We need you to help us get to 100k signatures. Sign & share the petition and tell the Government to stop Big Chicken 👉bit.ly/4w9IRGm
#BigChicken
Save The Wye Coalition retweeted
Air pollution from pig and poultry factory farming costs Britain over £131m a year, more than the health impacts of 3.5 million cars, concludes this investigation. Whatever the toll, it is rapidly increasing, unchecked, in the U.K and across Europe.
desmog.com/2026/09/30/exclus…
Save The Wye Coalition retweeted
MORE CHICKEN. SAME OLD SH💩T.
The Government wants to expand intensive poultry farming.
Their plan for all the extra waste? Good question.. 🤔
Our rivers are already choking on chicken poo.
Expanding intensive poultry units risks making a dire situation even worse.
So as the Labour party gathers for their autumn conference in Liverpool, we’ve been outside on the streets with a simple message:
📢 Serious about cleaning up our rivers? STOP the expansion of Big Chicken
Help spread the word. Sign & share the petition and tell the Government to #StopBigChicken 👉bit.ly/4w9IRGm
#BigChicken #RiverAction #RiverPollution #Labour
Save The Wye Coalition retweeted
🐔 KFC sponsored a LabourList rally attended by senior Labour ministers.
Meanwhile, the Government is promising to clean up our rivers while considering plans to expand intensive poultry farming.
We’re demanding answers. 👇
Save The Wye Coalition retweeted
The Environment Agency will take until the end of 2028 to decide whether the Wye needs a Water Protection Zone. Fish Legal calls it “outrageous”. troutandsalmon.com/news/rive…
Save The Wye Coalition retweeted
Investigations into our chicken waste problem continue. With Lough Neagh high on the agenda this week maybe you’ll have a read of this very important work with @TBIJ @Andrew_Wasley @Tommy___Greene and myself 👇
thebureauinvestigates.com/st…
Save The Wye Coalition retweeted
Rivers play a vital role in our lives and in the wellbeing of our planet. When they thrive, so do we.
This #WorldRiversDay, take a moment to stop, listen and celebrate our rivers - the living lifelines that weave through our landscapes and connect us all.
Riversong - written and read by Robert Macfarlane.
#WorldRiversDay2026 #RescueOurRivers
The ripple effect...
Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead has endorsed a Charter of Rights for the River Thames, marking a significant step. The charter has been modelled by Thames Carta on landmark Charter for the River Wye.
#riverrights #naturerights
thamescarta.org/news/royal-b…
It’s a national disgrace that government isn’t properly supporting our farmers. For sake of our food security and national security, farmers need our help to adapt to climate breakdown and to change to more sustainable ways of farming.
theguardian.com/environment/…
Also
We can’t save the Wye unless we save our farmers too.
#savethewye
theguardian.com/environment/…
Save The Wye Coalition retweeted
NEW: ‘Worse than the scramble for Oasis tickets’: England’s sustainable farming funds run out in just six hours
theguardian.com/environment/…