members are on strike. now on bbc news: bbc wales investigates what s killing 0ur rivers? you see herons and dragonflies. you see lots of little shellfish in the shallow parts. sometimes you will see a salmonjumping out of the water. you start to realise that how many people don t have stuff like this, particularly in lockdown when we were very grateful to have it. these school friends have made the most of a record breaking summer. like thousands of others. but there is something wrong with our rivers. the sad sight to see. it s absolutely devastating what with finding out here today. but of the water, look at this. this is algae. it s taking over our rivers and waterways. and when human and animal waste gets into a river not only is it bad for our health it is also full of nutrients like phosphate which act as a kind of super and his algae gets into the river it here more than 35% of phosphates come from rural land runoff. as our demand for cheap food have grown farming p
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much of this, has had its funding consistently cut. if nobody s policing things like muck spreading, are you prepared to tell farmers that they can t spread muck on their land because it s too much phosphate in the river already? we have to look at the regulations. we have to look at the individualfarmer and one of the things and bring forward in relation to delaying the one regulation is a licensing scheme. if a farmer wants to apply for a licensing scheme and think is not pertinent for that farm, we can do that. a lot of this is legacy phosphorus was up at that as part of the problem. we are now. if that s part of it, obviously we can look at it. do you take responsibility for what s happening to our rivers? well of course i m part of the solution just as other people are. we all have to take responsibility, each and every one of us. the scale of the problem is daunting. there is a sewage as well as a slurry problem to fix. so is there still time for the wye and other iconic welsh ri
that we ran, which we now are looking at how the role of that dairy project into different catchments and looking more around nutrients and phosphates. it s key having people on the ground to deliver it is so important that is why we are looking into it notjust externalfunded programmes, that are temporary, but were also looking at our baseline funding with welsh government. your budgets have gone down about a third since its inception. does it sometimes come down to resources? we would like to do more. we will do more. we can work with others as well. the welsh government has been facing new laws to tackle water pollution from farms and is currently talking to nrw nrw told us they have yet to receive
looking at how the role of that dairy project into different catchments and looking more around nutrients and phosphates. it s key having people on the ground to deliver it so important that is why we are looking into it notjust externalfunded programmes, that s temporary but were also looking at our baseline funding with welsh government. your budgets have gone down about a third since its inception. does it sometimes conductive resources? we would like to do more. we will do more. we can work with others as well. the welsh government has been facing new laws to tackle water pollution from farms and is currently talking to an rw about resources for the end rw told us they have yet to read steve any funding to in force those new rules. this is a simple solution around investment and funding into that. scottish government have