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"Stretching over 10 miles from the leafy suburbs of Barnet to the inner-city
sprawl of Edmonton, the Pymmes Brook flows though picturesque parks, past
ancient woodland, behind council housing estates and under some of the city’s
biggest motorway junctions. It traverses three London boroughs, spilling
through political boundaries, gushing over administrative demarcations and
washing away socioeconomic divides as it gathers pace and pollution on its
course.
The Pymmes Brook is just one of the many tributaries of the River Lea which
flows into the Thames before spewing out its dirty load into the sea. Dirty,
mainly because of the raw sewage illegally pumped into English rivers by water
companies on a regular basis. Thames Water, the company currently responsible
in this area, has a history of polluting rivers wherever it operates. But
they’re not alone. Industrial farming waste is also allowed to flow into our
rivers, making them rank with algal blooms and green slime. And then there’s
all the road run-off in London, which flushes oil, diesel and petrol spills
along with car tyre particles, heavy metals and other pollutants into waterways
every time it rains. No wonder some people mistake their local river for a
dump."
Cheers,
*** Xanni **
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
