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Water Quality with Gideon Amos MP

Feral Practice and local MP Gideon Amos talk about wild swimming and water quality.

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Gideon lives in Taunton and swims most Saturdays after Park Run, so he is passionate about the River Tone. He helped to run the successful campaign to gain bathing water status for the river in French Weir Park.

Photos of Gideon courtesy of Ken Bird

Fiona holds a microphone and is talking with Gideon Amos next to bathing place on the River Tone in French Weir Park in Taunton

Gideon and Fiona discuss the Lib Dem calls for Ofwat to be abolished, plus a gamut of water-quality issues including sewage, road runoff, planning, farming, dogs, retrofitting, ecocide, raft racing...

The bathing spot in French Weir park with a person in a wetsuit getting into the river