Exclusive: campaigners fear less rigorous methods could lead to more pollution in rivers and waterways
The government is to diverge from the European Union’s standards for monitoring water quality, it can be revealed.
Government officials met stakeholders to tell them about the change. A source from an NGO present in the meeting said: “When asked how this would affect assessments against the target set out in the government’s environment improvement plan, officials commented that this data would no longer be used for that purpose, and that Defra were looking to use the Natural Capital Ecosystem Assessment process to assessment performance.
Stuart Singleton-White from the Angling Trust said: “WFD has been the bedrock of us understanding the state of our rivers, lakes, and groundwater. It does not give a full picture, but it does provide a useful starting point. Past assessments have shown things are getting worse, not better.
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