Nitrate Pollution Problem in E Anglia

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Wednesday, 19 April 2006

According to the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service (Adas), a privatised former Government agency, half the arable farm land of East Anglia must be converted to grass within six years to avoid huge fines for nitrate pollution in water from the European Court.
The crisis has come about because intensive cultivation has given rise to an upward trend in ‘diffuse’ pollution from nitrates and phosphates which is proving difficult to reverse.
Source: Daily Telegraph via www.soilassociation.org