Our Victorian sewerage infrastructure is breaking, wasting water and polluting our brooks, streams and rivers. Chronic river pollution is now delaying development across the country, slowing economic growth. This year's drought has also exposed that we have neglected our water security for too longIn general, England’s rivers are in a sorry state and the same can be said for the catchment in North Oxfordshire.
This deterioration has been building up for decades due to underinvestment in infrastructure, poor law enforcement, harmful EU farming subsidies and a sluggish planning system. Given the growing public concern about rivers in North Oxfordshire, we all have a shared responsibility to protect and restore these cherished natural assets.
It’s not just about bathing water for wild swimmers, its also about our environment and our natural amenity. We don’t want our rivers and streams to be sewers running through our treasured North Oxfordshire landscape.
Please complete and sign our petition.