Almost half of all fish species and 10% of mammals rely on rivers and lakes for survival but a combination of climate change and pollution is threatening their existence.
Although scientists knew that pollution and warmer water damage life in freshwater, they had not realised the combination of the two further hastens the destruction of much aquatic life.
In Britain, the privatised water companies and poorly controlled industrial farming companies have been increasingly pouring raw sewage, animal waste and fertilisers into our waterways.
Cherished trout and salmon fisheries and the already endangered eel populations require rivers to be clean and cool for their entire length for adults to breed.
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