Sensible, pragmatic policy can improve water quality in the UK

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With just months remaining of this Parliament, government needs to get on with the regulation and legislation critical to cleaning up waterways, writes CEN's Kitty Thompson

The speed with which we all want to see water quality improved in English waterways requires sensible, pragmatic policy, not more populist campaigns peddling false solutions that are too good to be true....

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