{"id":92663,"date":"2026-08-07T08:36:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T08:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92663"},"modified":"2026-08-07T08:36:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T08:36:05","slug":"all-bodies-of-water-in-england-polluted-with-toxic-chemicals-official-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/07\/all-bodies-of-water-in-england-polluted-with-toxic-chemicals-official-data-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"All bodies of water in England polluted with toxic chemicals, official data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bd79f3f4f65f9629cca45d9068ba5888f708d3aa\/561_0_2750_2200\/master\/2750.jpg?width=480&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none\" alt=\"Dried, cracked bed of Manchester's Rochdale Canal strewn with rubbish beneath a footbridge\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every single English water body is polluted with toxic chemicals, new government data shows, while just 14.3% of surface waters achieved good ecological status. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/aug\/06\/all-bodies-of-water-england-polluted-toxic-chemicals\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Every single English water body is polluted with toxic chemicals, new government data shows, while just 14.3% of surface waters achieved good&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/river2.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92664,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92663\/revisions\/92664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}