Costing The Earth

Radio 4, 3.30pm

In 2020 the River

Wharfe in Ilkley,

West Yorkshire, was designated as the first inland waterway to be safe for bathing. But just over a year later the water was found to be polluted by animal and human faeces.

Here, Charlotte Smith (above) and

Caz Graham go looking for solutions to fix Britain’s polluted rivers. .

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