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Pioneering recycling scheme safeguarding irrigation water supplies for Suffolk farmers

Forward-thinking farmers in east Suffolk have joined with a range of stakeholders in a water management project that will protect both access to irrigation water and the environment

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Pioneering recycling scheme safeguarding irrigation water supplies for Suffolk farmers

Back in 1338, the Kingsfleet waterway at Felixstowe Ferry in Suffolk was rather busier than it is today. It was in this natural river basin that King Edward III is said to have assembled his fleet of...

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