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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’s problems aren’t unique. England’s rivers are “a mess”, 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 “a ‘chemical cocktail’ of sewage, agricultural waste, and plastic”. 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.