by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Jan 30, 2024 | Agriculture, Land management
Agricultural pollution is a long-standing issue in Wales. In the three years prior to 2021, agricultural pollution incidents averaged three per week. More recently, agriculture has been identified by NRW as contributing 62% of the total phosphorous load to rivers and...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Jan 30, 2024 | Agriculture, Land management
Economics In 2021, the agriculture, forestry and fishing sector accounted for for 1.1% of total gross value-added (GVA) to the Welsh economy. This compares to, for example, tourism at 5% of Wales’s GVA, or manufacturing at 17.3%. GVA is the measure of the value...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Jan 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
Abstraction refers to the process of taking water from a natural source (a river, lake, groundwater or reservoir). Water is abstracted for a variety of purposes: by water companies for water supply, by farmers for irrigation, by industry for cooling, production or...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Jan 25, 2024 | River of the Month, Uncategorized
January 2024 At Castell-y-Cnwclas (Knucklas Castle) in Mid Wales, local legend has it that King Arthur once threw the head of a giant he had killed into the nearby river Teme. Using it to cross the water, he commanded that it turn to stone, shouting “tyfed yr...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Jan 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
Nine rivers in Wales have been designated as Special Areas of Conservation because they make a significant contribution to conserving the habitats and species identified in Annexes I and II of the Habitats Directive. Such species include European otter and, below,...
