{"id":169188,"date":"2025-06-09T02:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/169188\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T02:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:59:10","slug":"exhibition-shines-light-on-river-wye-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/169188\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition shines light on River Wye pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"

“After the council unanimously supported the Rivers and Oceans Motion last year, it’s essential to keep this conversation alive and push for real change,” he added.<\/p>\n

McDermid said tackling pollution would require cooperation from the community, local groups and government.<\/p>\n

“This is a problem of such scale it cannot be tackled alone,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We want everyone to be able to enjoy our rivers long into the future, and working together we can make that a reality.”<\/p>\n

The council’s Water Improvement Group said it was working to identify pollution sources, monitor water quality and involve local people in caring for the district’s waterways.<\/p>\n

The exhibition comes after a \u00a31m fund to investigate the sources of pollution in the River Wye was announced by the Welsh and UK governments<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“After the council unanimously supported the Rivers and Oceans Motion last year, it’s essential to keep this conversation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-169188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}