Mushrooms are cleaning England's rivers — and just won £1.5 million to do more
Turkey tail mushroom mycelium, packed into filters at storm overflows, stripped 80% of E. coli from sewage in Devon trials and cut phosphorus 83% in Lincolnshire. The nature-based system won funding in the £58 million Water Breakthrough Challenge. Fungi, quietly doing what treatment plants struggle to.
The upbeat factorThe forest floor's cleanup crew, hired by the water industry.