Readers' Blog: We cannot keep waiting to act on environment

The recent revelation from the EPA in relation to ecoli in more than 51 water schemes serving more than 1m people comes as no surprise given the present state of water bodies.
Our ecology has been evolving over 600m years and it has taken less than 200 years to reduce it to its present condition in rivers and lakes. We use our rivers and lakes as conduits for effluent and waste that has caused the present ecological breakdown.