MEMBERS of Woolston and District Women’s Institute staged a demonstration at Woolston Weir to support the Clean Rivers Campaign.
Carrying banners and placards, they were there to support a campaign that has been adopted by the WI National Federation for the last two years in a bid to get the message over that “something needs to be done.”
Woolston WI president Ann Brennan said: “The fact that sewage is discharged into rivers on a daily basis is not an isolated problem. It affects urban city centre rivers and pristine chalk streams. Rivers are at a crisis point. Every single river in England is polluted not only affecting wild life but making them unfit to swim in.
“In 2022 alone raw sewage was discharged into waterways 300,000 times with 40 percent of river quality target failures caused by agricultural and land management.
“Extreme climate change related weather condition are only serving to worsen the situation. All in all, this is an issue that urgently needs addressing.”
The event at Woolston was just one of many interesting , entertaining and relevant topics covered at WI monthly meetings which are an excellent way to meet up with old friends and make new ones. Woolston and District WI meets every 4th Thursday of the month at 7.30-9.30 pm in the Mission, Warren Lane in Woolston.
Anyone interested in joining should call Ann on 07784 723731.
