:Claims that rural communities and rural authorities in Wales were backwards conceal not only growing sensitivity to industrial river pollution, but also their active efforts to regulate the region's rivers. This article uses evidence from South Wales to explore rural responses to industrial river pollution and to provide the micro-contextualisation essential for understanding how environmental nuisances were tackled around sites of pollution. Efforts to limit industrial effluent at both local and regional levels highlight strategies of control, the difficulties of intervention at the boundaries of authorities, and how rural authorities were not always peripheral to an urban metropole. This lack of passivity challenges the idea that river pollution interventions merely displaced rather than confronted the problem of pollution, providing insights into how rural authorities worked, and into how those living in rural communities turned to them to clean up their environment.

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塔夫里的硫酸：19 世纪晚期威尔士农村的河流污染、工业废物和控制政治

: 声称威尔士农村社区和农村当局落后的说法不仅掩盖了对工业河流污染日益增长的敏感性，而且掩盖了他们为规范该地区河流所做的积极努力。本文使用来自南威尔士的证据来探索农村对工业河流污染的反应，并提供微观情境化，这对于理解如何解决污染地点周围的环境滋扰至关重要。在地方和区域层面限制工业废水的努力突出了控制策略、在当局边界进行干预的困难，以及农村当局并不总是处于城市大都市的外围。这种被动性的缺乏挑战了河流污染干预只是取代而不是面对污染问题的想法，