Local History – Concrete Barges and The Diver". London Riverside Bid. Archived from the original on 27 August 2020 . Retrieved 27 August 2020. In 1974 the Thames Conservancy became part of the new Thames Water Authority. When Thames Water was privatised in 1990, its river management functions were transferred to the National Rivers Authority, in 1996 subsumed into the Environment Agency.

History of the major rivers of southern Britain during the Tertiary". Quaternary Palaeoenvironments Group. 2006. Archived from the original on 11 October 2007 . Retrieved 28 November 2007. French Brothers". Simplon. Archived from the original on 22 September 2020 . Retrieved 27 August 2020. River Thames: current conditions updated for Tuesday 16 May 2023. Changes to following reaches - St John's, Buscot, Rushey, Shifford, Northmoor, Pinkhill, Eynsham, King's, Godstow and Day's.River Thames: current river conditions updated for Tuesday 3 October 2023. No stream warning changes. The river rises at Thames Head in Gloucestershire and flows into the North Sea near Tilbury, Essex and Gravesend, Kent, via the Thames Estuary. From the west, it flows through Oxford (where it is sometimes called the Isis), Reading, Henley-on-Thames and Windsor. The Thames also drains the whole of Greater London. [1] River Thames: current conditions updated for Thursday 14 September 2023. No stream warning changes.

to following reaches: Grafton, Osney, Iffley, Benson, Mapledurham, Boveney, Chertsey and Teddington. Exclusive: water firms discharged raw sewage into England's rivers 200,000 times in 2019". The Guardian. 1 July 2020. Archived from the original on 27 August 2020 . Retrieved 4 August 2020. River Thames: current river conditions updated for Monday 13 November 2023. No stream warning changes. The river is policed by five police forces. The Thames Division is the River Police arm of London's Metropolitan Police, while Surrey Police, Thames Valley Police, Essex Police and Kent Police have responsibilities on their parts of the river outside the metropolitan area. There is also a London Fire Brigade fire boat on the river. The river claims a number of lives each year. [68]BBC News, 24 July 2014 "Deaths in the River Thames reached 15 last year". BBC News online. Archived from the original on 27 August 2020 . Retrieved 23 January 2019. . River Thames: current conditions updated for Friday 3 February 2023. Changes to following reaches - Iffley, Sonning, Marlow and Sunbury If you are not able to vacate your boat safely and are running low on essential supplies or have other safety concerns, treat this as an emergency. Dial 999 to ask for evacuation.

The Thames contains both sea water and fresh water, thus providing support for seawater and freshwater fish. However, many populations of fish are at risk and are being killed in tens of thousands because of pollutants leaking into the river from human activities. [43] Salmon, which inhabit both environments, have been reintroduced and a succession of fish ladders have been built into weirs to enable them to travel upstream. River Thames: current conditions updated for Friday 26 May 2023. Change to Blakes reach. No stream warnings are now in force. River Thames: current conditions second update for Tuesday 9 May 2023. Changes to the following reaches - Radcot, Rushey, Clifton, Days, Benson, Cleeve, Goring, Whitchurch, Mapledurham, Caversham, Blakes, Sonning, Shiplake, Romney, Old Windsor, and Bell Weir. Reaches Radcot, Rushey and Clifton on Red Boards. Humanrace: Windsor". Speedo Open Water Swim Series. Archived from the original on 1 July 2012 . Retrieved 1 July 2012. Between west London to the end of the route at the Thames Barrier in Greenwich, look out for the Thames Path National Trail symbol. Beyond the Thames Barrier, the route is way-marked with the Thames Barge Symbol. Maps and guidesa b c Vane, C.H.; Beriro, D.; Turner, G. (2015), "Rise and fall of Mercury (Hg) pollution in sediment cores of the Thames Estuary, London, UK." (PDF), Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 105 (4): 285–296, doi: 10.1017/s1755691015000158, archived (PDF) from the original on 12 August 2016 , retrieved 17 June 2016