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🌊 Watershed Votes: Water is making waves in the next general e!ection. From floods to sewage, it's a hot topic. Who will protect our homes & rivers? Dive in: vist.ly/4fvu9 #WaterMatters
Watershed Votes: How Water Will Shape the Next General Election
Floods, sewage, and mistrust are transforming water from a background concern into one of the defining election issues of 2025. Voters are asking who will protect their homes, their rivers, and their coastlines.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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🌼 UK gardens cover as much space as Norfolk. How do we treat that land? It’s already shaping our wildlife future.
🎧 Catch the full Water Matters episode now on YouTube & Spotify! #WaterConservation #SaveWater #WaterEfficiency #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #WaterMattersYearbook
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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💧 Brown lawns aren’t dead — they’re just waiting for rain. The experts say: don’t water, just wait!
🎧 Catch the full Water Matters episode now on YouTube & Spotify! #WaterConservation #SaveWater #WaterEfficiency #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #WaterMattersYearbook
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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🌱 Grass bounces back with the rain. But swap it for plastic, and the wildlife doesn’t come back with it.
🎧 Catch the full Water Matters episode now on YouTube & Spotify! #WaterConservation #SaveWater #WaterEfficiency #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #WaterMattersYearbook
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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🟩 AstroTurf might save water — but it costs us biodiversity. And right now, that’s the part we can’t afford to lose.
🎧 Catch the full Water Matters episode now on YouTube & Spotify! #WaterConservation #SaveWater #WaterEfficiency #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #WaterMattersYearbook
November 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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🌊🐟 Dive into "Loch Life" & discover how native trout transformed Loch Restil into a tourism hotspot! 🏞️✨ Read more on Water Matters: vist.ly/4etdh #Ecotourism #Sustainability #WaterMatters
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 life back into rural Scotland.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:57 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: vist.ly/4efz9
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 3:13 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: vist.ly/4dymv #WaterMatters #EcoWarrior
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 1:01 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: vist.ly/4dnxi #WaterMatters #UrbanIssues
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 without safe, affordable water.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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🎬 The best videos don’t just show products — they tell stories. And the real stories? That’s where the impact is.
🎧 Catch the full Water Matters episode now on YouTube & Spotify! #WaterConservation #SaveWater #WaterEfficiency #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #WaterMattersYearbook
November 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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💧 Hosepipe bans? Not a problem for Chris. His water butts were ready — and they kept his garden thriving. 🎧 Catch the full Water Matters episode now on YouTube & Spotify! #WaterConservation #SaveWater #WaterEfficiency #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #WaterMattersYearbook
November 6, 2025 at 3:31 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: vist.ly/4cyrh #WaterMatters #Sustainability #Ilkley
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 river’s resilience but public trust in the system meant to protect it.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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💡 Real problems, real people, real solutions. These are the stories showing how water-saving efforts actually work.
🎧 Catch the full Water Matters episode now on YouTube & Spotify! #WaterConservation #SaveWater #WaterEfficiency #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #WaterMattersYearbook
November 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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🌿 Gardening isn’t just good for the planet — it’s good for the mind. For many, it’s a lifeline in green.
🎧 Catch the full Water Matters episode now on YouTube & Spotify! #WaterConservation #SaveWater #WaterEfficiency #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #WaterMattersYearbook
November 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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📉 What happens when your local reservoir is so dry it's growing grass? One personal story reveals a much wider issue. 🎧 Catch the full Water Matters episode now on YouTube & Spotify! #WaterConservation #SaveWater #WaterEfficiency #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #WaterMattersYearbook
November 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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💧 Dive into "The Liquid Divide: Part 1" on Water Matters! Discover how water is reshaping global power. 🌍💦 Read more: vist.ly/4cmvs #WaterPolitics #GlobalIssues
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 resource of the twenty-first century.
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November 3, 2025 at 12:42 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: vist.ly/4c9ns #WaterMatters #SustainableFarming 🌿
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 the nation’s harvest.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:52 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: vist.ly/4b298 #Sustainability #EcoFriendly
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, and reshaping everyday shopping.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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🌞 It was the sunniest summer on record — and one of the driest. Oxfordshire and beyond are still under hosepipe bans.
🎧 Catch the full Water Matters episode — now on YouTube & Spotify! #WaterConservation #SaveWater #WaterEfficiency #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #WaterMattersYearbook
October 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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🔥 A summer like this used to happen once every 340 years. Now? Every five.
🎧 Catch the full Water Matters episode — now on YouTube & Spotify! #WaterConservation #SaveWater #WaterEfficiency #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #WaterMattersYearbook
October 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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We talk about the summer of ‘76 — but five hotter summers have happened since 2000. Have we already forgotten what “normal” looked like?
Catch the full Water Matters episode — now on YouTube & Spotify! #WaterConservation #SaveWater #WaterEfficiency #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #WaterMattersYearbook
October 24, 2025 at 12:53 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: vist.ly/4bckc #Plastic Pollution
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 3:17 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: vist.ly/4b7gg #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 environmental problems.
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October 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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🦫 Beavers don’t eat fish — but they do make waterways healthier for them. Turns out, they’re better water managers than we thought.
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October 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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🤖 AI is helping us manage water better — but it also consumes more of it than you'd expect. Even new tech has a hidden cost.
🎧 Catch the full Water Matters episode — now on YouTube & Spotify! #WaterConservation #SaveWater #WaterEfficiency #WaterCrisis #EcoFriendly #WaterMatters
October 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM