Pollution And ‘Climate Change’ Driving Down Water Quality In Boston Rivers

Why are the liberals in Boston so filthy? Why are they polluting the rivers?

Pollution, climate change drives down water quality in Boston’s three major rivers

Despite steady improvement in water quality in recent years, increased rainfall and outdated infrastructure are hindering efforts to clean up the Mystic, Neponset and Charles Rivers, a coalition of watershed groups said Wednesday.

The watershed associations representing Boston’s three major rivers released their annual water quality report cards, with grades for all three declining into the B’s and C’s over the course of 2025.

“These grades make it clear that progress has stalled,” said Emily Norton, executive director of Charles River Watershed Association. “To achieve a truly clean, healthy, and swimmable Charles, we need to make the necessary investments in reducing stormwater runoff and ending sewage discharges.”

Well, hey, if they weren’t spending billions on illegal aliens and fake asylum seekers, along with all the graft and waste elsewhere in the budget, they’d have money to fix the infrastructure, right? Of course, the same enviroweenies protest when something is done.

While the organizations’ leaders acknowledged that steps are being taken to improve water quality, they pointed to aging infrastructure, including combined sewer systems, as impeding progress.

The effects of climate change, including increased rainfall and longer droughts are also impacting progress.

“When we talk about climate change, we often think about rising seas or an event that floods a river system,” said State Rep. David Rogers, who attended the release of the ratings. “But we also must think about the urban infrastructure that was built years ago and frankly perhaps not with the changes we’re experiencing in mind when they were first built.”

Oh my God, it rains? When did that happen? That’s so weird. Perhaps if they didn’t pave everything over and have poor and outdated methods to move the rainwater away it wouldn’t be a problem. Hey, maybe if all the Boston residents stopped driving fossil fueled vehicles they could stop this. And maybe if they’d stop dragging the scam into everything people could focus on the real problems.