{"id":2592,"date":"2019-09-02T10:48:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T10:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2592"},"modified":"2019-09-02T10:48:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T10:48:13","slug":"fallon-tackle-leaks-and-leave-our-river-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2592","title":{"rendered":"Fallon:  \u201cTackle leaks and leave our river alone\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sevenoaks MP Sir Michael Fallon has this week\ncriticised Thames Water\u2019s abstraction from the River Darent and called on the\ncompany to make a much firmer commitment to reducing chalk stream abstraction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The River Darent already provides water for hundreds\nof homes in the Darenth Valley and will face further challenges if new homes\nare built in the area.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sir Michael said: \u201cThames Water must commit to\nstopping abstraction that impacts on vulnerable chalk streams in order to\nensure the Darent\u2019s survival.&nbsp; The Darent is being sucked dry to provide\nwater for London which wouldn\u2019t be needed if Thames did much more to tackle\nleakage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sevenoaks MP Sir Michael Fallon has this week criticised Thames Water\u2019s abstraction from the River Darent and called on the company to make a much firmer commitment to reducing chalk stream abstraction. The River Darent already provides water for hundreds of homes in the Darenth Valley and will face further challenges if new homes are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=2592\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fallon:  \u201cTackle leaks and leave our river alone\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2593,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions\/2593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}