Anglers using Kent's rivers say pollution levels are killing all life in some of the waterways.
Anglers in Kent are calling for an investigation into river pollution levels, claiming in some areas all life has disappeared.
Southern Water, which has a sewage treatment plant in the area, said it was spending hundreds of millions of pounds on tackling overflows by reducing the amount of surface water that runs into sewers. "It out-competes the other plants and you end up with a monoculture of filamentous algae and no other plants."Lawrence Gosden, Southern Water's CEO said cleaning rivers in the UK requires water companies working with agriculture and local authorities because there were a whole series of different sources that need to be cleaned up.
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