A new report from the LGA following a policy inquiry to investigate and understand the root causes of nutrient pollution and over extraction of water. The result of which has meant around 20,000 new homes a year have been put on hold as a result legal protections to clean and protect water ways.
The report explores the challenges that councils and other stakeholders are facing, and sets out recommendations for action, summarising a number of short term and long-term solutions. The report includes a call to action for enhance partnership working in a whole-system approach. With the aim of improving river quality and water quantity, in response to increasing risk from pollution, overconsumption, environmental degradation, biodiversity loss and climate change.