No single organisation can improve chalk streams alone: their future is dependent on action by water companies, farmers, landowners, and individuals.
Sustainable abstraction, reducing demand for water, reducing pollution - particularly from sewage and farmland - and habitat restoration are the key things that will have the biggest impact on the quality and future of chalk streams.
The Government's 25-year Environment Plan aims to have 75% of chalk streams returned to their natural state as soon as practicable.
The Environment Agency has launched a consultation for everyone who is interested in chalk streams, and is keen to receive as many responses as possible by the closing date - 15th June 2021.
You can read the draft chalk stream restoration strategy and comment on it here.
