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🌊 Dive into "The Ocean’s Hidden Plastic Problem"! Discover how microplastics sneak into our lives through clothes & cosmetics. Let's tackle this invisible threat together! Read more: www.watermatters.life/p/the-ocean-... #WaterMatters #EcoWarrior
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The Ocean’s Hidden Plastic Problem
Part of The Water Keepers series, uncover how invisible plastics travel through clothes, cosmetics, and oceans, and what you can do about it.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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🌊🐟 Dive into "Loch Life" & discover how native trout transformed Loch Restil into a tourism hotspot! 🏞️✨ Read more on Water Matters: www.watermatters.life/p/loch-life-... #Ecotourism #Sustainability #WaterMatters
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Loch Life: How Reintroducing Native Trout Sparked a Local Tourism Boom
The quiet return of native brown trout to Loch Restil transformed more than an ecosystem. It reshaped a community, revived a local economy, and showed how careful ecological restoration can breathe li...
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November 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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💧 Liquid Borders: Mapping the new water conflicts 🌍

Rivers like the Nile & Mekong are now geopolitical front lines. Discover how climate stress shifts water boundaries in our latest piece. Read more: www.watermatters.life/p/liquid-bor...

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Liquid Borders: Mapping the new water conflicts
From the Nile to the Mekong, rivers once shared by neighbours have become front lines of geopolitical tension. Part 2 in our Liquid Divide series
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November 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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🌊 Dive into "The Ocean’s Hidden Plastic Problem"! Discover how microplastics sneak into our lives through clothes & cosmetics. Let's tackle this invisible threat together! Read more: www.watermatters.life/p/the-ocean-... #WaterMatters #EcoWarrior
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The Ocean’s Hidden Plastic Problem
Part of The Water Keepers series, uncover how invisible plastics travel through clothes, cosmetics, and oceans, and what you can do about it.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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🌊 Dive into "The Ocean’s Hidden Plastic Problem"! Discover how microplastics sneak into our lives through clothes & cosmetics. Let's tackle this invisible threat together! Read more: www.watermatters.life/p/the-ocean-... #WaterMatters #EcoWarrior
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The Ocean’s Hidden Plastic Problem
Part of The Water Keepers series, uncover how invisible plastics travel through clothes, cosmetics, and oceans, and what you can do about it.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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💧 "The Dry Divide: Water Poverty in the UK’s Richest Cities" - Discover how gentrification hides water woes in wealthy areas. Anna's story will surprise you! Read more: www.watermatters.life/p/the-dry-di... #WaterMatters #UrbanIssues
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The Dry Divide: Water Poverty in the UK’s Richest Cities
In Britain’s wealthiest urban postcodes, water poverty is no longer hidden on the margins. Behind the glass towers and regeneration schemes, ageing pipes and unequal investment are leaving thousands w...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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🌊 The River Wharfe Incident: England's cleanest waters turned brown! Discover what happened & why it matters for our environment. Dive in: www.watermatters.life/p/the-river-... #WaterMatters #Sustainability #Ilkley
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The River Wharfe Incident: When England’s Cleanest Waters Turned Brown
Ilkley’s River Wharfe was once a symbol of citizen-led environmental progress, the first inland river in England to gain designated bathing-water status. A recent sewage spill has tested not only the ...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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💧 Dive into "The Liquid Divide: Part 1" on Water Matters! Discover how water is reshaping global power. 🌍💦 Read more: www.watermatters.life/p/the-liquid... #WaterPolitics #GlobalIssues
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The Liquid Divide : Part 1 The Water Line. Trump, Carney, and the Politics of Liquid Power
Across continents, the world’s thirst for freshwater is testing borders, alliances, and the limits of diplomacy. Water is no longer a quiet environmental concern; it is the defining geopolitical resou...
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November 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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🚰 Dive into the unseen side of UK farming! "Dry Work" reveals the water crisis affecting migrant workers in agriculture. Discover their stories & challenges. Read more: www.watermatters.life/p/dry-work-t... #WaterMatters #SustainableFarming 🌿
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Dry Work: The Water Crisis Behind the UK’s Harvest
In the green fields of British agriculture, irrigation keeps crops alive but not always the people who pick them. Migrant workers face inadequate access to water, sanitation and dignity while powering...
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October 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Join the #RefillRevolution! 🌍 From pasta jars to coffee cups, see how Britain is cutting plastic waste. Dive into the movement with Water Matters: www.watermatters.life/p/the-refill... #Sustainability #EcoFriendly
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The Refill Revolution: How One Campaign Cut Plastic Waste Across Britain
Refilling is no longer just for water bottles. Across Britain, people are topping up pasta jars, detergent bottles and coffee cups as part of a fast-growing movement that’s cutting waste, saving money...
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October 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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🌍🐛 Discover how waxworm caterpillars are munching through plastic pollution! These tiny creatures digest polyethylene, sparking hope and debate. Dive into the science with Water Matters: www.watermatters.life/p/plastivore... #Plastic Pollution
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Plastivore Caterpillars: Waxworms That Digest Polyethylene
New studies show waxworm caterpillars can digest polyethylene plastics, sparking excitement and ethical debate about biotech fixes to pollution.
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October 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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🌿 From Pollution to Protection: Discover how UK farmers are rewilding fields to combat water pollution and boost biodiversity! Dive into this transformation: www.watermatters.life/p/pollution-... #Rewilding #Sustainability #WaterMatters
Pollution to Protection: How Farmers are Rewilding their Fields
Rain falling on a fertilised field may seem harmless, but when it carries nitrates, phosphates and other agricultural residues into nearby rivers and streams, it fuels one of the UK’s most persistent ...
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October 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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I have signed @weownit.org.uk's petition to block Thames Water's plans to dump sewage in our rivers for the next 15 years. We have until 21st Oct to stop it. Add your name now.

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Thames Water wants to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO.
Thames Water wants to make at deal with Ofwat, to pollute illegally for 15 years
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October 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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🌿 From Pollution to Protection: Discover how UK farmers are rewilding fields to combat water pollution and boost biodiversity! Dive into this transformation: www.watermatters.life/p/pollution-... #Rewilding #Sustainability #WaterMatters
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Pollution to Protection: How Farmers are Rewilding their Fields
Rain falling on a fertilised field may seem harmless, but when it carries nitrates, phosphates and other agricultural residues into nearby rivers and streams, it fuels one of the UK’s most persistent ...
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October 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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I sometimes worry I exaggerate the collective madness of our media but the people who cheered Brexit, Boris Johnson & Liz Truss's mini-budget are now applauding Kemi Badenoch's speech. 'Parallell universe' doesn't come close. I suppose her not falling over is a win of sorts for them at the moment.
October 9, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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🌊 Beavers in Czech Republic built a dam in 48 hours, outdoing 7 years of human planning! 🦫 Discover nature's genius in action. Read more: www.watermatters.life/p/the-48-hou... #NatureKnowsBest #WaterMatters
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The 48-Hour Dam: What a Czech Beaver Family Can Teach Europe About Trusting Nature
A family of beavers in the Czech Republic built a dam in just two days, delivering natural flood management that planners had debated for seven years.
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October 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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🌊 Dive into "The Water Detectives" - young citizen scientists tracking pollution in UK rivers! Discover how kids are making waves in science. Read more: www.watermatters.life/p/the-water-... #WaterMatters #CitizenScience
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The Water Detectives: Kids with Kits Helping Scientists Track Pollution
Across Britain, a quiet revolution is taking place by the water’s edge. Armed with test kits and boundless curiosity, children are becoming “water detectives”, helping scientists uncover the hidden st...
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October 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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🌧️ Discover Britain's hidden flood hero: Peatland! 🌿 Dive into how these boggy wonders manage water & fight floods. Read more on Water Matters: www.watermatters.life/p/the-moss-t... #PeatlandPower #SustainableSolutions
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The Moss That Holds Back the Storm: Why Peatland is Britain’s Forgotten Flood Defence
Walk through a rain-soaked moor on a winter’s day and you will feel it underfoot, the soft, springy ground that seems to drink in the downpour. It is not just mud or moss. It is one of Britain’s most ...
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October 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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🌧️🌿 Discover how rain gardens are transforming urban landscapes! From flooded streets to thriving green spaces, see how nature tackles stormwater. Dive in: www.watermatters.life/p/rain-garde... #RainGardens #SustainableCities
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Rain Gardens Rising: The Urban Movement Soaking Up Storms
Heavy rain used to be just an inconvenience, but in our crowded cities it now often means flooded streets, overwhelmed drains, and frustrated communities. Yet across the UK and beyond, a quiet movemen...
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October 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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🌧️ Rethink rain! Discover how stormwater is transforming from a problem to a valuable urban asset. Dive into the future of water-sensitive cities. Read more: www.watermatters.life/p/stormwater... #WaterMatters #SmartCities
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Stormwater, Smart Tech and the Next Generation of Water-Sensitive Cities
The first thing most people think when it rains in a city is not wonder at the gift of water, but worry. Will the drains cope? Will the road outside flood? Will the river break its banks again?
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September 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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🚨 Exciting News! 🚨 The Water Matters Yearbook 2025 is here! Dive into global water insights as the UK reshapes governance. Free access now! 🌍💧 www.watermatters.life/p/press-rele... #WaterMatters
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PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 25, 2025World's First Global Water Yearbook Launches as Water Crises Reshape Governance Worldwide
Free pioneering publication delivers comprehensive analysis across 8 regions as UK abolishes Ofwat and nations confront unprecedented water challenges
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September 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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🌊 Dive into retirement with purpose! Meet the "River Rangers" - retired volunteers protecting UK streams & wildlife. Discover their stories: www.watermatters.life/p/river-rang... #RiverRangers #WaterMatters
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River Rangers: Retired Volunteers Patrolling and Protecting Local Streams
When people think of retirement, they often picture leisure, travel or time with family. Yet for a growing number of older adults, retirement has opened the door to something equally rewarding: becomi...
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September 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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🌊 Fish are back! Rivers in Europe are thriving as rewilding projects breathe life into them. Discover how nature's comeback is making waves in biodiversity. 🐟🌿 Read more: www.watermatters.life/p/fish-come-... #Rewilding #Biodiversity #WaterMatters
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Fish Come Home: Biodiversity Booms in Rewilded Rivers
Across Britain and Europe, rivers that were once engineered into rigid channels are being allowed to breathe again. Concrete embankments have been removed, floodplains reconnected, and meanders re-int...
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September 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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🚨 Is your child's school water safe? Britain’s schools face hidden risks from lead pipes & bacteria. Dive into the full story on Water Matters: www.watermatters.life/p/unsafe-to-... #WaterSafety #UKSchools
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Unsafe to Drink: Why Britain’s Schools Aren’t Immune
Britain’s schools may have dodged the headlines over crumbling RAAC concrete, but another scandal runs quietly through their pipes. Ageing infrastructure, lead contamination, and legionella risks are ...
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September 23, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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🚨 Banbury's water woes: 2 floods in 10 days! Aging pipes & rapid growth test the town's limits. Can the system keep up? Dive into the details: www.watermatters.life/p/cracks-ben... #WaterMatters #Infrastructure
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Cracks Beneath the Surface: Banbury’s Burst Water Mains Expose Fragile Infrastructure
Two floods in ten days raise urgent questions about ageing pipes, rapid development, and whether Banbury’s water system is keeping pace.
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September 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM