00:00Well, we've been feeding the chickens and it's been fun with the children
00:03but our main message today is about the environment more broadly and particularly about
00:09pollution in our chalk streams
00:11Of the chalk streams in the world England has 80% of them
00:15They sometimes be called England's rainforest and we're not protecting them well enough last year the
00:2249,000 hours of sewage dumping into our chalk streams
00:27That's outrageous it's doubled getting worse and so what Liberal Democrats are saying today, we've got to tackle that
00:33We've come up with a plan where we would say you need blue flag status for all chalk streams
00:39We consult on on that and I think we would give the extra protection that our precious chalk streams need
00:45Well, actually, it's really really quite cheap
00:48And we do a public consultation to start off so the public can be involved in it
00:53And the blue flag status the applications are really quite cheap, I think it's about 425 from from memory
01:00Pounds so we're not talking a lot of money
01:03What where we have put investment because you need to get behind it is in a new regulator
01:07We've called it the Clean Water Authority
01:09We're not happy with the way the regulators have been monitoring and enforcing the law on the water companies
01:15They've been allowing them to get away with this filthy sewage dumping and we put more resources
01:20Into the Clean Water Authority for what we've called sewage busters a hundred new enforcers
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