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PETER FROST highlights the contrasts between recent floods and drying English chalk streams
The River Itchen in Hampshire is one of the world's premier chalk streams for fly fishing
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IT WAS a bit like Alice in Wonderland. I’d just started work on an article on the plight of English chalk streams drying up and being poisoned by heavily polluted runoff from agriculture and road networks. My wife Ann had suggested the subject after hearing a report on BBC local news.
Then my phone started pinging. Sue, a mate of Ann’s for over 60 years was telling us about flats around her in Paddington flooding with sewage up to her neighbour’s knees.
Anne, another Young Communist friend from the 1960’s, now living in Germany is telling us about the dozens of deaths caused by floods near her German home. There are floods too in France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
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