The UK had safe water - until Brexit let the Tories sell environmental standards down the river | Stella Creasy

Michael Gove, who pledged to boost protections, now plans to scrap them. No wonder natural habitats are threatenedStella Creasy is the chair of the Labour Movement for Europe and the Labour and Cooperative MP for WalthamstowThis week politicians have again been talking crap - the kind that ends up clogging our waterways and streams and making them toxic. Nutrient neutrality sounds like something a health food drink promises. In layperson's terms, these policies ensure that the materials leaching into our natural water sources help to maintain a healthy oxygen balance so that all - fish, fowl or human - can imbibe it safely. This can be put at risk by sewage discharges into our rivers. In political terms, however, these debates are proof that this government is happy to sell our precious environmental standards down the river.As a result of farming and development, phosphates and nitrates get discharged into the soil and then to rivers, leading to eutrophication - waterways choking with algae. Continue reading...