About Us
Every purchase from the Pollution Watch UK Shop is helping to fund the future development of the website and help us in our mission to make the level of pollution publicly visible with the ultimate goal of cleaner waterways in the UK that we can all enjoy.
What is Pollution Watch UK?
An app and web-based platform for reporting, categorising and publicly logging pollution events on any body of freshwater in the UK. Pollution Watch UK, as a platform, gives the general public the tools to report, monitor and update any water pollution incident using a simple App on their phone and gives water companies and the regulatory organisations the platform to monitor and publicly display progress in dealing with each incident.
The Pollution Watch UK platform should bring transparency to the process with the ultimate aim of reducing pollution incidents, giving water companies and other polluters the opportunity to improve their systems and performance (clean up their act) and if not, publicly hold those responsible to account.
The general public, clubs and associations representing leisure activities in, on or by water, water companies, industry, environmental groups and the regulatory organisations should be able to work together in this endeavour.
It is hoped that this platform engenders cooperative working and a collective responsibility in reporting and improving the water quality in streams, rivers, lakes and other bodies of water in the UK.
How did it come about?
The concept for Pollution Watch UK was born out of two businessmen, who’d previously worked together on projects, realising they had a shared passion for water based activities in their ‘down time’… Russ a keen game fisherman and Tim a keen canoeist/boater.
Both drawn to water both fresh and salt… “Wouldn’t it be great if anyone in the UK, using a slick App, could report pollution events on streams, rivers, lakes and and waterways in an easy, potentially enjoyable and constructive way ?” … this question spawned into an idea for an App and a web-based platform to highlight, resolve and ultimately reduce pollution incidents on UK waterways.
Visit the Pollution Watch UK website and if you see Pollution on any waterway - report it