‘Big Chicken’ is out today on Netflix. Sign our petition to demand ministers ditch the 'Poultry Growth Plan' and support farming that protects our rivers: bit.ly/451p0xU

Stop Big Chicken Choking our Rivers

Our rivers can't take any more Big Chicken. Now is the time to act, not plan to make the problem worse. Across the UK, rivers are already paying the price for industrial chicken farming. Every year,…

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Stop Big Chicken Choking our Rivers

Our rivers can't take any more Big Chicken. Now is the time to act, not plan to make the problem worse. Across the UK, rivers are already paying the price for industrial chicken farming. Every year, o...

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New @Netlfix #BigChicken drops today. Industrial chicken supply & demand is so huge. Like a monster we've created but cant undo But we can and must -it uses so much land for feed, produces so much toxic waste, and is cruel & unhealthy - actions below www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...

Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy review – Mo Gilligan ruffles feathers in battle against ultra-processed foods

The ultra-likable comedian decides to go on a chicken shop diet for 28 days, but like a gen-Z Super Size Me uncovers some dark truths behind this billion-dollar industry

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Every year, over 1 BILLION chickens are reared in the UK producing 3.5 million tonnes of manure. In many areas there is already more waste than the land can safely absorb. It's time to stop #BigChicken choking our rivers 👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Stop Big Chicken Choking our Rivers

Our rivers can't take any more Big Chicken. Now is the time to act, not plan to make the problem worse. Across the UK, rivers are already paying the price for industrial chicken farming. Every year, o...

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🚨 STOP BIG CHICKEN CHOKING OUR RIVERS Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy has landed on Netflix, exposing the hidden costs of our obsession with cheap chicken. Here in the UK, our rivers are already paying the price. SIGN THE PETITION: bit.ly/4xhkuaz 🧵 1/2...

🚨 Meet Big Chicken - a powerful industrial system producing more than 1 BILLION chickens in the UK every year. Together, those birds generate an estimated 3.5M tonnes of 💩 a year – and often our rivers are left to deal with the consequences.. 1/2. riveractionuk.com/news/factory...

Factory Farming UK: How Big Chicken Is Polluting Rivers

Discover how factory farming and intensive poultry production are polluting UK rivers, driving nutrient pollution and threatening wildlife across the country.

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🚨 Thames Water’s CEO says sewage pollution is inevitable and the targets are “not realistic.” No, Chris. What’s unrealistic is expecting the public to keep accepting excuse after excuse while our rivers are treated as collateral damage by a failed, debt-ridden, profit-first model.. 1/2. 🧵

I wrote this last year, but as nothing has been done to address the underlying issues, it remains, unfortunately, just as relevant today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

High water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England's great artificial water crisis of 2025 | George Monbiot

In its refusal to nationalise water, it’s clear the government operates in the interests of private capital and not of the country, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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🚨 RIVER ACTION INVESTIGATION: The hidden water scandal behind Britain's hosepipe bans. Millions of households are being told to use less water. But our investigation reveals a much bigger story... 🔽 🔽 #WaterCrisis riveractionuk.com/news/hosepip...

Millions face hosepipe bans while businesses hold licences to abstract 43 trillion litres as water demand grows - River Action UK

Why asking households to use less water won’t solve the crisis Millions of households across England and Wales are being told not to water gardens, wash cars or fill paddling pools with hosepipes, whi...

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Water companies have known for years that climate change means hotter, drier summers. Instead of preparing, they allowed infrastructure to crumble, failed to fix leaking pipes, and carried on extracting vast amounts of water from our rivers. Read more: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #WaterCrisis

This week's column explains how successive Environment Secretaries in the UK have been actively facilitating ecocide on behalf of industrial lobbyists. Charged with protecting the living world, one after another has been working for the enemy. This has to change.🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Besieged by lobbyists, will UK ministers protect our ecosystems? No, they’ll chicken out | George Monbiot

Industrial poultry farming is killing our rivers. But rather than stop it, the government has been facilitating it. Will Andy Burnham end this ecocide, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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🚨 NEWS! Former Southern Water executives can now be prosecuted over an alleged £45 million fraud, following a landmark High Court ruling. This should send shockwaves through the water industry: executives - not just companies - can be held personally accountable. 🔽 🔽 www.itv.com/news/meridia...

🚨Andy Burnham’s arrival in Downing Street today marks the beginning of a new chapter in British politics. But it could also mark something even more significant: the beginning of the end of England’s failed experiment with shareholder-first water companies.. www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

🚨 A new Prime Minister. A public that’s had enough. As Andy Burnham enters Downing Street, new polling reveals overwhelming support for an end to England’s shareholder-first water system. The public verdict is clear: people & rivers MUST come before profit. riveractionuk.com/news/yougov-...

New YouGov Poll Shows Strong Support for Public Interest Reform

New YouGov polling commissioned by River Action reveals 77% of the public support water companies operating in the public interest, not for shareholders.

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The public is clear what they want to happen with Thames Water MPs are clear too. And they are standing up and demanding that the government take it into special administration. Share this if you agree with them.

What if changing the future of our rivers didn't start in a council chamber... but on a walk? 👣💙 Last year's River Medway pilgrimage helped inspire the UK's first Rights of Nature Framework. As Zofia Page writes: "People change conversations. Conversations change institutions." 🔗 - bit.ly/4wFYeqx

From Pilgrimage to Policy: How Walking the River Medway Helped Catalyse the UK's First Rights of Nature Framework - River Action: River Rescue Kit

Discover how the River Medway Pilgrimage helped inspire Maidstone Borough Council to adopt the UK's first Rights of Nature Framework for local government.

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🚨📢 The calls for action are getting louder. Olympic rowing legend Sir Steve Redgrave has joined growing calls for Thames Valley councils to investigate Thames Water's #SewageScandal... 🧵 1/2.

🚨 NEWS: At least 16 people - including children - have suffered vomiting and diarrhoea after swimming in the River Frome. Just days earlier, the site had been assessed as low risk. Now Wessex Water is investigating a nearby sewage overflow. 1/2 🧵.. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A short film about our bacterial testing at The Warren, Hay-on-Wye with equipment provided by @riveractionuk.bsky.social Our first test 25/06/26 recorded a worryingly high level of E.Coli. over 3x the safe bathing limit. We publish our results each week on our website. @savethewye.bsky.social

England are through to the knockouts... and next up is DR Congo. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇩 But before the whistle blows, we're putting the two nations head-to-head in a different kind of fixture: water quality. 👀💧 So, when it comes to protecting one of our most precious resources, who comes out on top?

🚨 58 times above the Government's "poor" bathing water threshold. That's what independent testing found in the River Thames last week. This isn't just an environmental issue. It's a public health crisis. 1/2...🧵

💧 Every drop counts. But don't ask the public to solve a crisis the water industry created. Water companies are losing more than 3 BN LITRES every day through leaking pipes. Stop shifting the burden onto the public and start fixing the system. 👇 www.channel4.com/news/why-we-...

Why we need to see water as an increasingly precious resource

A £75m push by the water industry and regulators has been launched to try to get all of us to use less water. Last week's high temperatures meant demand for tap water surged.

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"The Government and Ofwat should act now to place Thames Water into a Special Administration Regime to protect customers, safeguard rivers and restore confidence that essential services are operated in the public interest." Well said @riveractionuk.bsky.social. riveractionuk.com/news/andy-bu...

Andy Burnham is right: Government must act on Thames Water - River Action UK

Andy Burnham Thames Water campaign highlights growing calls for Government intervention, with River Action urging Special Administration to safeguard rivers.

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Bonus blocked? No problem. Just call it an "allowance"... United Utilities' CEO was denied a £417,000 bonus following serious pollution incidents. Now she's been handed a new £435,000 annual allowance instead - neatly sidestepping Ofwat's rules on executive bonuses.. 1/2. 🧵

Good to see that the new Farming Roadmap clearly acknowledges that "agriculture has a major impact on the environment, including being the largest contributor to water pollution". And we fully support @riveractionuk.bsky.social's statement🧵 riveractionuk.com/news/the-gov...

Government Publishes Its Vision for Farming - River Action UK

On 20th June, the Government published its much anticipated Farming Roadmap setting out its vision for the sectors journey towards 2050. River Action welcomes the Government’s recognition that restori...

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🚨 Raw sewage pumped into the Thames. During a record-breaking heatwave. 🤢💩 The Government must act NOW: place Thames Water into Special Administration and take this essential public service out of private hands. Read more: riveractionuk.com/news/thames-...

⚽️ England vs Ghana is almost underway... but we're interested in more than just the final score. 👀 🇬🇭 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 While the players battle it out on the pitch, we've been sizing up a different contest off it. So, when it comes to #waterquality, who's taking home the trophy? 👇

Clean up a river. Get threatened with legal action. After decades of sewage dumping and fly-tipping in the River Roding, the Environment Agency has finally taken action… ...against the people restoring it. 1/2🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨 Your local river needs your voice. 🚨 Join 40+ organisations and 9 million supporters demanding #CleanWaterNow. Ready to make some noise? Write your letter today: action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/190454/...

🚨 We welcome Andy Burnham’s call for Government intervention in Thames Water - and ask: why hasn’t Special Administration already been triggered? The public, our rivers, and the environment cannot afford more delay: riveractionuk.com/news/river-a... #RescueOurRivers