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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20211017 13:24:00

Being pumped into its waters, according to campaigners. an online petition calling for a ban on sewage pollution, has now reached over 99 thousand signatures. but, the situation is complex, as our environment correspondent judy hobson explains. tourists come to the lake district for its outstanding natural beauty, but campaigners say the water quality in windermere is so poor, it is a national scandal. there has just been the biggest blue green algal bloom, all because of sewage entering the lake. a local conservationist has been filming water pollution in the area. that dark patch is an algal bloom. this is the river rothay that feeds into the lake. it actually prevents invertebrates from being able to breed on the substrate of the river itself and then, because of that, invertebrates have died and, subsequent to that, fish are dying. matt has started an online petition calling for a ban on sewage pollution in windermere. he said the waters here are close to ecological collapse. ....

Lake District , Sewage Pollution , Judy Hobson , 99 Thousand , Water Quality , Algal Bloom , River Rothay , Filming Water Pollution , Invertebrates Have ,

Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20211017 14:14:00

Windermere in the lake district could become ecologically dead within years, because of the amount of sewage being pumped into its waters, according to campaigners. an online petition calling for a ban on sewage pollution, has now reached over 99 thousand signatures. but, the situation is complex, as our environment correspondent judy hobson explains. tourists come to the lake district for its outstanding natural beauty, but campaigners say the water quality in windermere is so poor, it is a national scandal. there has just been the biggest blue green algal bloom, all because of sewage entering the lake. a local conservationist has been filming water pollution in the area. that dark patch is an algal bloom. this is the river rothay that feeds into the lake. it actually prevents invertebrates from being able to breed on the substrate of the river itself and then, because of that, ....

Lake District , Sewage Pollution , Judy Hobson , 99 Thousand , Water Quality , Algal Bloom , Filming Water Pollution , River Rothay ,