questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps her Department is taking to address (a) over-abstraction, (b) phosphorus loading, and (c) urban development pressures on chalk streams.
answerText: Restoring our chalk streams to better ecological health is a core ambition of our overall programme of work to clean up rivers, lakes and seas for good.We are tackling one of the biggest threats to chalk streams by reducing harmful abstraction by an estim...
heading: Rivers: Environment Protection