UK’s largest lake faces environmental crisis as rescue plans stall
Posted by Portalrules123@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 9 comments
Posted by Portalrules123@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 9 comments
grassy_trams@reddit
ought to call it the green sea now lol
VruKatai@reddit
Similar things happening with lakes in Michigan. Its mostly relagated to the many, many larger recreational lakes, blooms have been reported in the Great Lakes.
Industrial agriculture has worked out just as well as fissile fuel mining. The areas in and around these industries are just absolutely tearing up the environment.
daviddjg0033@reddit
"Lough Neagh’s recurrent algal blooms, which choke aquatic life, are caused by an overload of phosphorus and nitrogen entering the lough system. Sixty two percent of these derive from agricultural sources – including farm runoff, fertilisers and animal waste, while 24% comes from creaking wastewater treatment facilities and 12% from septic tank leakage. The remaining 3-4% is thought to come from a range of industrial and household sources around the lough."
This is the 2025 in the UK how did its privatized water utilities allow that much sewage kust drain into a lake people fish?
Collapse_is_underway@reddit
Same thing's happening for our lakes in Switzerland.
It's like there's a pattern... like massive various pollution sources...
Naaah, it's probably not that bad. We'll just change the legislation by lowering the standards and we'll ignore it for a few years.
BEERsandBURGERs@reddit
Dear lord, a lake with, what looks like...spinach waves? What an absolute mess.
faster-than-expected@reddit
Agriculture and global warming are killing our environment. This isn’t even an el nino year. Greener than expected.
TonyHeaven@reddit
Rescue plans stalled:
We talked , but there's no money to do anything about it.
StatementBot@reddit
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Portalrules123:
SS: Related to climate, ecological, and pollution collapse as a warming climate is combining with excess nitrogen and phosphorus pollution (largely from agriculture) to create a perfect warm soup for toxic algal blooms to proliferate across Lough Neagh, the UK’s largest lake in Northern Ireland. In fact, reports of toxic algae have tripled since last year. Local fishermen’s income has fallen by over 60% since 2023, as the lake becomes increasingly ecologically hostile to eels and other harvestable species. Though there have been some proposed plans to try and help the lake, none have materialized so far and the pollution only continues to worsen. Expect Lough Neagh to quickly become toxic to fishing, swimming, and human use in general as climate chaos and our polluting ways both accelerate.
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Portalrules123@reddit (OP)
SS: Related to climate, ecological, and pollution collapse as a warming climate is combining with excess nitrogen and phosphorus pollution (largely from agriculture) to create a perfect warm soup for toxic algal blooms to proliferate across Lough Neagh, the UK’s largest lake in Northern Ireland. In fact, reports of toxic algae have tripled since last year. Local fishermen’s income has fallen by over 60% since 2023, as the lake becomes increasingly ecologically hostile to eels and other harvestable species. Though there have been some proposed plans to try and help the lake, none have materialized so far and the pollution only continues to worsen. Expect Lough Neagh to quickly become toxic to fishing, swimming, and human use in general as climate chaos and our polluting ways both accelerate.