Only six farms are prosecuted for pollution despite 300 river contaminations in one year.
"The first thing was the smell - it was appalling," she said. "As I approached the river, I could see that it was black. The next morning I went out with my camera and took some videos of the dead fish."
She describes slurry as "liquid gold" and says every farmer knows the value of keeping it on the land and out of rivers."It helps the soil, and it helps the grass, and it helps the cows to produce the milk that we need to sell," she said. He said: "Increasingly, we see across the country industrial-scale farming units, particularly dairy and beef units. The slurry that they produce has to go somewhere.Invertebrates found on a riverbed are a valuable indicator of how clean the water is
The Environment Agency said it is working "constructively" with farmers to reduce water pollution and that it had increased the number of inspections to more than 3,000 since January this year. But it admitted only six agricultural prosecutions took place in 2021/22, saying court action was used as "a last resort when there is persistent non-compliance".
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