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Pete Devery

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Environment Communications Officer at The Angling Trust. Secretary Tidmarsh Fly Fishing Syndicate, river Pang.

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Warming, shrunken rivers - oxygen low, pollution concentrated, bacteria multiply, fish struggle - as @petedevery.bsky.social of @anglingtrust.bsky.social tells BBC Berkshire, pumping too much water, pollution, tearing out shade-giving plants weakens rivers. Then climate change deals the final blow.
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
"Depleted & polluted, rivers that were once abundant in fish, invertebrates, mammals & birds turn into a line of fetid pools” River campaigners, furious at the failure of successive to prepare for water scarcity, speak to Watershed's @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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England’s rivers ‘under threat’ as water extraction surges to record levels
Exclusive: Investigation finds 76% rise in water taken from rivers and lakes for industrial or public consumption in two decades
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Brilliant news 👏👏👏Sandeels, the basis of so many food chains, need to remain in the sea not be harvested out of existence to feed farmed fish & animals. A win for seabirds. A win for fish. And definitely a bonus for the sandeels themselves. Fabulous. @petedevery.bsky.social @stuartsw.bsky.social
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Pete Devery @petedevery.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Just 55 years before #climate change makes up to 70% of #England’s rivers too hot for #trout to spawn 👀 @wildtrout.bsky.social @troutunlimited.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Britain’s favourite fish at risk of wipeout within decades, predicts report
Brown trout unlikely to survive in most rivers at height of summer by 2080, says Environment Agency
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Pete Devery @petedevery.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Are Keir Starmer and Donald Trump singing from the same #nature destruction manual when it comes to fish conservation? Certainly sounds like it ⬇️ #AnglersAgainstPollution #angling #salmon #conservation
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Pete Devery @petedevery.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Are Keir Starmer and Donald Trump singing from the same #nature destruction manual when it comes to fish conservation? Certainly sounds like it ⬇️ #AnglersAgainstPollution #angling #salmon #conservation
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StuartSW @stuartsw.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If HMTreasury drop this fundamental & hugely important approach, ensuring fines for polluting our rivers are invested in clearing up the mess, then it will be a huge act of betrayal. See my quote here. @anglingtrust.bsky.social @theriverstrust.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Appalling’: charities warn of UK government betrayal over river clean-up fund
Charities in England that bid for share of millions say idea that Treasury could keep money is ‘heartbreaking’
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Pete Devery @petedevery.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
If you fancy learning how to waste your time gracefully, with a fly, lure or bait, lots more info on: anglingtrust.net #angling #fishing #trout #carp #bass
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The Angling Trust are a not for profit organisation, representing anglers, fighting for fish, fishing and the environment. We are recognised by the Government as the National Governing Body for anglin...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/01/2025
How I learned to fly-fish on the banks of the Thames
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How I learned to fly-fish on the banks of the Thames
A fly-fishing session in London strips the pastime of its elite connotations and delivers an object lesson in mindfulness Fishing has been one of those things, like pottery classes, or going on a yoga retreat in Ibiza, that I’ve never tried but envied…
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Pete Devery @petedevery.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Labour shelves rescue plan for globally rare chalk streams www.thetimes.com/article/6c5f...
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Labour shelves rescue plan for globally rare chalk streams
Protection of habitat featured in David Attenborough’s Wild Isles had been promised under the Tories
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Pete Devery @petedevery.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Merry Christmas 🎄
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Record sewage spills and financial mismanagement = whopping price rises.
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Pete Devery @petedevery.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
⬇️ And today the government has approved a 35% increase in your water bills to fund this fraudulent and criminally polluting Thames Water for another five years ⬇️ www.itv.com/news/meridia...
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Simon Collins @sirgeogy.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Water Co investment focuses too much on BIG rivers and improving large STWs. A top-down approach is needed: upgrade small sewage works, restore headwaters and add NFM upstream for clean water downstream. Start in top catchments for MAX impact on recovery! freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/news/positio...
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Positioning statement on the impact of sewage pollution
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StuartSW @stuartsw.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
All we ask is for water companies to follow the law and for regulators to enforce the law. Is that really too much to ask? It seems so. @petedevery.bsky.social @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Watchdog warns Defra and Ofwat they could face court over sewage dumping
Environment Agency also served notice after investigation found failures to comply with law
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Why should 6 million households in the Thames Water region be FORCED to pay £260 extra a year to keep this absurd company afloat for a little longer? This is daylight robbery 🤑 don't let them get away with it Sign the petition weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin... metro.co.uk/2024/12/11/c...
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Water customers face huge bill this Christmas
'A higher water bill is the Christmas present nobody asked for.'
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Pete Devery @petedevery.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Special case? More like basket case. £51m on advisors & consultants in 6 months, no wonder Thames Water saw first-half loss of £189m. At that rate it will only take 10 years to burn through £3.5 billion they need to raise. www.thetimes.com/article/a004...
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Thames Water reports first-half loss of £189m
Pollution penalties, payouts to external consultants and losses on inter-company loans deepened the struggling utility’s debt burden
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Pete Devery @petedevery.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Chasing down billion$ more debt to finance Britain’s biggest water company month by month, the deluded CEO describes it as getting on a “more stable financial footing”. Tick tock, timberrrr! www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Thames Water will run out of cash by March without £3bn emergency funding
Britain’s biggest water supplier reports 40% increase in pollution incidents, blaming a wet spring and summer
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
This plan is so ridiculous I can't believe I'm about to write these words - water companies want to build pipelines to divert sewage away from protected rivers to... other rivers & lakes with fewer legal protections...& they want to raise our bills to pay for it... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Customers set to pay for new sewage pipelines - BBC News
Water companies are to spend billions of pounds of consumers' money building new pipelines.
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Pete Devery @petedevery.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Dear #NigelSlater farmed salmon isn’t sophisticated. Take it #offthetable www.theguardian.com/food/2024/de...
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Pete Devery @petedevery.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Even 71% of Sunday Times readers think our water industry should be renationalised. www.thetimes.com/article/1c1e...
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Pete Devery @petedevery.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
“Enshittification” is a great word of the year for 2024. Inclusion in the Macquarie dictionary is the icing on the cherry on the turd. 💩 #endsewagepollution www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
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‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year
The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’
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Pete Devery @petedevery.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
“Enshittification” is a great word of the year for 2024. Inclusion in the Macquarie dictionary is the icing on the cherry on the turd. 💩 #endsewagepollution www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
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‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year
The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’
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Alex Lipp @alexlipp.github.io · 22/11/2024
I'm in The Conversation discussing the new release of nationwide sewage spill data in the wider context of open data, open models and environmental transparency. 1/n #opendata 🧪 theconversation.com/water-compan...
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Water companies now have to release live sewage spill data – here’s why more transparency is the key to cleaner rivers
A new law is forcing water companies to make pollution data readily accessible to the general public - but it doesn’t go far enough.
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Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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Ofwat puts record 10 water companies on financial watch list
Thames Water most at risk according to regulator’s latest financial resilience report
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WindrushWASP @windrushwasp.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Christmas sewage lights going on early
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Pete Devery @petedevery.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Great work from @anglingtrust.bsky.social Water Quality Monitoring Network volunteers on the Severn. Three years of data, and anglers anecdotal evidence, shows the decline of this magnificent river. anglingtrust.net/get-involved... #AnglersAgainstPollution
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Anglers Against Pollution
The waters we fish are in crisis. Pollution is the main cause with every water body in England assessed against the Water Framework standard failing. And things are becoming worse, not better. Our Gov...
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Pete Devery @petedevery.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Great work from @anglingtrust.bsky.social Water Quality Monitoring Network volunteers on the Severn. Three years of data, and anglers anecdotal evidence, shows the decline of this magnificent river. anglingtrust.net/get-involved... #AnglersAgainstPollution
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Anglers Against Pollution
The waters we fish are in crisis. Pollution is the main cause with every water body in England assessed against the Water Framework standard failing. And things are becoming worse, not better. Our Gov...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/11/2024
‘The sores on the fish are nasty’: what’s behind the changes in the Severn river?
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‘The sores on the fish are nasty’: what’s behind the changes in the Severn river?
Faced with a dearth of data on the impact of local mega farms, volunteers have shown sewage pollution has soared The sores were unlike anything veteran anglers had seen before. Black, swollen and blister-like, they started appearing on fish being caught…
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Bring Thames Water into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW Well done to Liberal Democrat Sarah Olney MP for calling on the government to put the company into Special Administration Time to PROTECT UK taxpayers and the 16 million 'customers' who have no choice but to use Thames Water www.ft.com/content/82db...
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Thames Water’s emergency loan could cost £800mn in interest and fees
Mooted £3bn loan will hit customers and drain troubled utility’s resources, warn experts
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Pete Devery @petedevery.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
WOW! “We’re putting the public at risk by failing to invest in the most basic needs.” after years of “doing less than the bare minimum”, a source said. Will Steve Reed MP finally see the Execs running Thames Water as the crooks they are? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Thames Water supply ‘on knife-edge’ with £23bn repairs needed
Exclusive: Company has failed to tackle serious safety concerns or upgrade vital IT systems, Guardian investigation reveals
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Pete Devery @petedevery.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
WOW! “We’re putting the public at risk by failing to invest in the most basic needs.” after years of “doing less than the bare minimum”, a source said. Will Steve Reed MP finally see the Execs running Thames Water as the crooks they are? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Thames Water supply ‘on knife-edge’ with £23bn repairs needed
Exclusive: Company has failed to tackle serious safety concerns or upgrade vital IT systems, Guardian investigation reveals
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Pete Devery @petedevery.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
First post, dive in: Is the real ‘Wind in the Willows’ river on the precipice? “We can’t wait to 2031 until there’s a new Thames Water business plan, six years is going to be too long, it will kill the Pang.” Thanks BBC Berks. Full 12min item: shorturl.at/TV24a #anglersagainstpollution #chalkstream
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The Secret DJ. @thesecretdj.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Music was promised. Saturday night special incoming... www.mixcloud.com/SECRE_DJ_MIX...
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Matt Staniek @savewindermere.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Windermere should not be green savewindermere.com @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @carolvorderman.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Blue green algae engulfing mitchell wyke bay, Windermere
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Pete Devery @petedevery.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
First post, dive in: Is the real ‘Wind in the Willows’ river on the precipice? “We can’t wait to 2031 until there’s a new Thames Water business plan, six years is going to be too long, it will kill the Pang.” Thanks BBC Berks. Full 12min item: shorturl.at/TV24a #anglersagainstpollution #chalkstream
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Peter powell @peterpowell.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Lots more people added to this starter pack for UK rivers and water quality. go.bsky.app/KaDADYV
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