Spreading the S**t?

Another fine mess from the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)! (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/20/government-retracts-unlawful-pollution-guidance-for-englands-farms). DEFRA instructed its Environmental Agency not to enforce measures against farmers, who spread manures in ways risking polluting rivers, lakes and coastal waters. Sewage sludge, abbatoire waste and slurries were piped onto fields, with little or no regard for whether their nutrients could run off into adjacent waters. The excess nutrients in rivers, lakes and coastal waters, generate algal blooms. The blooms kill many of the animals in these locations. DEFRA's instruction was removed when Salmon and Trout Conservation obtained a ruling that the instruction not to enforce was unlawful. It really shouldn't take a campaigning group to have to go to law, to alter a practice so clearly to the detriment of the environment. What, on Earth, is DEFRA really for?