Run-off from fields going into flooded river taking with it nitrates. Repeated a thousand times every wet day, killing our waterways.

Still not as bad as Welsh Water pumping raw sewage straight into waterways.

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How could the problem you’re looking at right there be resolved Monty? I’d guess the farmer wouldn’t want the field fallow either. 70 acres myself that should have been in crops that we just couldn’t get near because of the weather. If we had, it would have been worse than that.

Could be from an organic farm Monty

If only life were that simple. Your tweet implied that this is avoidable; in many situations it simply isn’t! Yes there are mitigations we can all do to try to reduce it, but unless all our fields are in grass (which themselves have to be sown), this will always occur on occasion

My GCSE geography coursework was on this very subject. I tested rivers over a 6 week period, testing in dry weather and wet, just after spraying... the results were extraordinary, see in the huge rise in nitrate levels within the River.

Seems wrong adding a “like” to yr post Mr. D, but it is very definitely an issue that has been unaddressed by many for far too long.

@Sh3zz4 This is taught in schools when kids learn about the water cycle. But there isn’t enough taught about proper water management. Isn’t this the gap?

Environment Agency is not maintaining waterways and refusing to let IDBs do their jobs. The farmers have to pay the EA for work it’s not doing. I think that’s fraud. Aka Environment Agency is killing the waterways and the food production necessity, farmers.

Rainfall for Sept+Oct 2023 here is 100% increase on 2020 & +50% on 2021 & 22. We’ve already had 25mm in Nov. Where does the blame lay?

This is also what happens in New Zealand. Nitrate levels in our drinking water are at dangerous levels in many paces. NZs dairy industry is responsible for dangerous levels of nitrates in drinking water

@TheMontyDon - perhaps an unfair comment? Farmers cannot control Storm Ciaran . @JeremyClarkson perhaps you can explain farming to Monty?

Inorganic fertiliser isn’t spread in the autumn - not allowed. Soil organic nitrogen generally sits 30-60cm down with very little in the surface where this run off generates from.

Have they been out spreading this year? I don’t think I know of anyone who has been able to access the fields since it was drilled! The rain has been relentless 😔 Plus there shouldn’t have been any left from the crop last year as farmers and agronomist put in only what is needed

We had a field by our village last yr which had been used for biosolid spreading. Five digs I know of inc our own becamr seriously ill from being walked in lane alongside the field..lickkng at run off in puddles. The older the dog the more serious the effects, all vet treated.

We have houses built on flood plains and water now runs into roads and the drains can’t cope - causing flooding - I see ducks swimming in the flooded area now - it’s crazy and sad

Same here in Nottingham, no crop on the field, no hedgerow or ploughing stand off.

Nothing better to do but criticise farmers

How do you know there are Nitrates in that water.

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Has anyone dipped a nitrate test strip into that? Interested in the concentration.

@Patrici89225734 This happened through the climate but the Tories allow thousands of tons of Raw Sewage from water companies to be dumped into our rivers and the sea daily. 60 holiday beaches where closed last year because of water contamination biological diseases and human excrement.

Weaning the farmers off this is pure torture @AdamHenson @tomheapmedia the relationship between chemical applications / productivity / finance needs rethinking / breaking?

Where do you think the great deltas of the world came from? And that was natural forested land in the main. Please be more realistic and support your local farmers, by all means call out bad practise, but after the wettest October for many this is just reality.

@Feargal_Sharkey

A lot of farmers filled brooks In around ours about 30 years ago .

Ps I wonder how many flights are taken these days adding to #climatechange #ExtremeRainfall How many gardens have you visited #Worldwide adding to #Climatechange ?

Round here it's sewage as infrastructure is not fit for purpose. Water company pays £3k a day per tanker & uses fleet of them to pump shit with aim to prevent it going into chalk stream. Been a year yet no progress in stopping it. Terrible situations but no-one will own it 😒

Get your mates to cancel flights, walk or cycle, turn off street lights and reduce the heat in their houses, that would help, moaning about this doesn’t I fear.

Don’t forget the sewage as well

Highlighting the problem, without offering a solution? That’s easy.

It's killing the beautiful river Wye, and the valley floral is being ruined, too. 😥

So many decades the same eroding practices as if it is normal.

True

And our wildlife!