IMPROVEMENT OF ENVIRONMENT

RIVER THAMES 
AND TOWER BRIDGE
 - LONDON - ENGLAND

For once I can report some good news. It had been stated that a record number of trout and salmon are returning to English rivers. A sign that pollution of the water is getting less. Therefore, the campaign of reducing waste and reducing pesticides are showing a result and were worth every effort.

There is a huge amount of sea trouts in the Thames and Tyne. These rivers also show a healthy stock of salmon.

The river Mersey was so polluted that at some stretches it caught fire. Now the Environment Agency states Athat the Mersey is at its cleanest for a century.

The Environment Agency reported that the quality of river water has risen for the 20th successive year and 70 per cent of rivers are classed as 'good' or 'very good'.

The success was due to further investment by water companies, polluters being prosecuted and farms reduced their pesticides which used to flow into rivers via rain and small streams.

The best record of improvement has the river Tyne; 50 years ago there were no salmon and sea-trout. Now it shows a record of more the 15,000. This is the highest so far, since record began.

However, Sarah Oppenheimer, a water expert for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds states that the agency has to do more. She said: "If the health of all wildlife in our rivers is considered, then only about a quarter meets the European standard of 'good status' - the measurement for all countries in the Europe