Malvern Hills National Landscape
How we wish for clear, clean waters in these days of poor regulation of the water industry. Severn Rivers Trust has been monitoring our local brooks and produced the following report
www.malvernhills-nl.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/MHNL-Water-Quality-Report.pdf
With the data within, as well as obvious observations, we hope to ensure sweet waters for wildlife, livestock, and paddling.
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Worth mentioning that dog flea treatment is really bad for water life? So maybe keep those dogs away? …
As this is predominantly a rural catchment, these contaminants notably nitrate, phosphate and bacteria will be derived from private sewerage plants and water company effluent as well. Also inputs of nitrate and phosphate from agriculture.
Always keen to make the unseen understood, we’ve been producing some videos to explain the geology of the the Malverns with the Earth Heritage Trust. And to show that women played a part in this, we are looking at a rock formation known as the Miss Phillips Conglomerate, named after its finder, and one of the few formations named after a woman. Links to the videos to come.
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