Divers and snorkellers – Be a part of us on the March for Clear Water

As a part of its work to guard UK water and marine life, BSAC and different watersports Nationwide Governing Our bodies are supporting the March for Clear Water in London on Saturday 26^th October.

The March for Clear Water is a coalition of environmentalists, group teams, water sports activities governing our bodies, people and extra who’re fed up and agree concerning the state of Britain’s waters and the shortage of motion to revive them to well being. 

The coalition is asking on everybody to demand that our new authorities takes pressing motion to deal with the UK’s alarming and harmful water air pollution disaster by marching by Central London on Saturday twenty sixth October. 

Feargal Sharkey might be main the decision for clear water and invitations outraged public to hitch him on October twenty sixth. 

Background to the UK’s water air pollution disaster may be discovered on this brief movie narrated by Stephen Fry…

Calling BSAC members and buddies

BSAC might be there. Please inform your buddies, family and friends. It’s time we made a noise to assist defend our rivers and seas.

BSAC CEO Mary Tetley stated:

As an organisation we’re working to do what we will to hurry up motion towards air pollution. Together with different sports activities within the Clear Water Sports activities Alliance we’re supporting this occasion and hope to see as many members there as doable to march by central London to Parliament Sq. on Saturday 26^th October. Golf equipment, members and others – please be part of us!

BSAC might be sharing extra data on this occasion over the approaching weeks. It’s hoped scuba divers and snorkellers will make an actual impression on the day, carrying blue (BSAC blue polos for people who have!), carrying our gear (masks and snorkels, wetsuits…) and bringing sea creatures, to create an actual visible impression of who we’re and why our seas matter.

The march might be inclusive, accessible, step free and everyone seems to be welcome to hitch. Marchers are inspired to put on blue to symbolise clear water; to let their creativity run free and produce noise, placards, puppets, posters, banners, costumes, marching bands and musical devices. 

Key message 100 days into new authorities

The March for Clear Water, which is timed to mark the tip of the primary 100 days of the brand new authorities, and days earlier than the Chancellor’s first price range (October 30), when environmental campaigners might be watching carefully for monetary commitments to guard the atmosphere, will contain scores of collaborating teams and well-known personalities, together with river campaigner Feargal Sharkey. 

They invite the general public to hitch in a single easy demand of Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer: to take speedy and decisive motion to finish the poisoning of our rivers, lakes and seas by the deadly cocktail of uncooked sewage, agricultural waste and different chemical pollution, that over latest years have been allowed to go away most of our waterways so filthy that they current main dangers to human well being and untold harm to nature.

This should embrace:

• a plan to deal with the continual unlawful dumping of uncooked sewage by the water firms;
• a full set of options to finish all different main sources of water air pollution;
• the reform of our failed regulatory system, together with Ofwat and the Setting Company, so the regulation may be successfully enforced towards polluters

While the introduction of a Water Invoice within the King’s Speech on seventeenth July is welcome, the proposed initiatives revealed to date to enhance water high quality are usually not practically in depth sufficient to deal with the size of the UK’s water air pollution disaster. It’s due to this fact important that this potential laws features a complete set of measures to finish all causes of water air pollution and to take action now.

The March for Clear Water is coordinated by River Motion and Feargal Sharkey in shut collaboration with Surfers Towards Sewage and main charities and governing our bodies together with the Clear Water Sports activities Alliance, British Rowing, British Canoeing, Greenpeace, RSPB, The Ladies’s Institute, The Wildlife Trusts, Angling Belief, SOS Whitstable, Wildlife and Countryside Hyperlink, The Rivers Belief, Ilkley Clear River Group, Soil Affiliation, Windrush Towards Sewage Air pollution and lots of area people teams from throughout the nation. 

Quote from River Campaigner Feargal Sharkey:

We name on the Authorities to finish the environmental devastation being inflicted upon our rivers, lakes and seas. It stops right here, it stops at the moment, it stops now. Finish air pollution, finish polluting for revenue. Authorities should order an pressing root and department evaluate of the failed oversight and regulation of the water business.  It’s now time to carry to account these industries that for too lengthy now have been allowed to knowingly and wantonly pollute our waters pushed by nothing greater than revenue and greed. We name on everybody within the nation who is worried or offended on the state of our waters to hitch us and march.

Quote from Chair and Founding father of River Motion, Charles Watson:

The preliminary noises popping out of our new authorities concerning cleansing up our filthy waterways, while encouraging, don’t practically go far sufficient to take care of the size of the issue they’ve inherited. Nothing in need of wholescale reform of our failed regulatory system and complete methods to deal with all main sources of air pollution, together with sewage discharges and agricultural run-off, will suffice. On the twenty sixth of October the general public will make this level very clear to Sir Keir Starmer in no unsure phrases.

For extra details about attending the March for Clear Water go to marchforcleanwater.org