A scheme to raise awareness about sources of water pollution and the quality of water in your local streams, rivers, lakes or ponds.
What is the Yellow Fish scheme?
Yellow Fish is very simple. It raises awareness with an enjoyable and low cost activity to support our message – Only rain down the drain!
Drains are marked using the Yellow Fish stencil and awareness raised locally to help prevent diffuse pollution. We will record your project location on our national Yellow Fish map and if you can get media coverage, all the better!
Yellow Fish promotes awareness of local environments, diffuse pollution and the quality of water in your local stream, river, lake, pond, canal, beach or break. Anything going down drains will ultimately end up entering watercourses and the sea. Pollutants such as oils, paints, chemicals, dirty water, and even litter entering drains can seriously impact upon your local watercourse or seaside. It also raises awareness of misconnections, which result in sewage and grey water entering your rivers.
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How can you get involved?
If you are a school, community group, housing developer, business or landowner, Yellow Fish has something for you. It is a great way to take positive, sustainable action to make a difference to your local environment. We have provided two resource packs to help get you started depending on your needs.
Education and community groups
Yellow Fish provides a way to improve connections with your local community and environment. It can raise awareness of local environmental issues and enable you to make a difference through positive action.
Yellow Fish directly supports the delivery of the national curriculum across all subjects and Key Stages. It also supports relevant vocational courses. If you are looking to undertake an environmental improvement project, Yellow Fish activities could help deliver your desired outcomes.
Businesses and Constructors
Yellow Fish can help you to prevent pollution from your premises or site. It complements our existing pollution prevention guidance with a simple message, ‘Only rain down the drain!’.
It can support your Corporate, Social and Environmental Responsibility objectives. Yellow Fish will help to positively raise your profile through protecting the environment and engaging with local schools and communities.
Yellow Fish map
Complete the feedback form with your project details, return it to us and we will add your project to our Yellow Fish map.
Yellow Fish in Wales
In Wales, Yellow Fish is being run by Keep Wales Tidy, in partnership with Environment Agency Wales. For further information and resources visit their website:
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