WWF-UK: UK Government: appalling on sewage, waste and water
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UK Government: appalling on sewage, waste and water
Wednesday 28 November 2007
WWF-UK and environmental groups are urging the Government to change flooding, pollution and waste management plans and have issued a 'scorecard' to the Environment Minister today.
The Countryside Link's Blueprint for Water (BFW) campaign is calling for the Government to change the way water is managed around the country.
The campaigners handed its 'scorecard' to Environment Minister, Phil Woolas, at the House of Commons today.
"The Blueprint was launched against a backdrop of serious drought in the south of England. A year on we are reviewing progress in the wake of the worst flooding in living memory," said Graham Wynne, chief executive of the RSPB.
BFW believe that there has been very little real response from the Government in terms of new policy on water management over the past year.
However, there has been good progress been made on the introduction of water meters and on reducing the amount of water wasted in homes.
But sewage, water pollution and the restoration of rivers and floodplains over the last 12 months have seen little or no progress.
BFW is a campaign supported by 14 organisations, including WWF-UK. More than six million people from around the UK signed the petition last year, supporting a ten-step plan for improving the water environment for people and wildlife by 2015.
BFW include:
Association of Rivers Trusts, Anglers' Conservation Association, Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust, Campaign to Protect Rural England, Marine Conservation Society, The National Trust, Pond Conservation, Salmon & Trout Association, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Waterwise, Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, The Wildlife Trusts, WWF-UK, and Zoological Society of London.
The campaigners handed its 'scorecard' to Environment Minister, Phil Woolas, at the House of Commons today.
"The Blueprint was launched against a backdrop of serious drought in the south of England. A year on we are reviewing progress in the wake of the worst flooding in living memory," said Graham Wynne, chief executive of the RSPB.
BFW believe that there has been very little real response from the Government in terms of new policy on water management over the past year.
However, there has been good progress been made on the introduction of water meters and on reducing the amount of water wasted in homes.
But sewage, water pollution and the restoration of rivers and floodplains over the last 12 months have seen little or no progress.
BFW is a campaign supported by 14 organisations, including WWF-UK. More than six million people from around the UK signed the petition last year, supporting a ten-step plan for improving the water environment for people and wildlife by 2015.
BFW include:
Association of Rivers Trusts, Anglers' Conservation Association, Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust, Campaign to Protect Rural England, Marine Conservation Society, The National Trust, Pond Conservation, Salmon & Trout Association, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Waterwise, Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, The Wildlife Trusts, WWF-UK, and Zoological Society of London.
"For decades successive Governments have failed to take the steps needed to make England and Wales more water-friendly and more secure against the extremes of floods and drought."
Graham Wynne, chief executive, RSPB
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