The Evenlode in Oxfordshire, UK, has been plagued by pollution, but farmers, the water industry and local volunteers are working together to clean it up.
The Evenlode鈥檚 problems aren鈥檛 unique. England鈥檚 rivers are 鈥渁 mess鈥, a report by MPs in the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) concluded last month, due to a lack of funding and monitoring and what was called 鈥渁 鈥榗hemical cocktail鈥 of sewage, agricultural waste, and plastic鈥. But a special partnership between local people, the water industry, farmers and others means that the Evenlode could hold the answers to how the country can clean up its rivers.
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