Tests by the BBC on a West Yorkshire river show high levels of E. coli, nitrates and phosphates.
Tests showed an E. coli rate around 10 times what would be expected in a moorland streamAn ecologist has called on the government to provide extra financial support for farmers to help reduce pollution in rivers.
Farming Minister Mark Spencer said the government was working with farmers to improve the environment. Prof Battarbee said: "If people were swimming and ingesting or swallowing that water, there's a risk that they would at least get some stomach upsets like diarrhoea. Dairy farmer Ed Goodall worked with the Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust to ensure cattle were unable get in the water on his land.
"I think in this case because we sampled after rain, that rain was sufficient to wash off manures from the soil into the stream."
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