by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Jan 18, 2024 | News
There will be a great deal of interest in the work and effectiveness of the new Natural Resources Wales team. Thursday 18th January, 2024 Natural Resources Wales has announced the establishment of a new Welsh Government-funded team of officers to reduce...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Jan 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
While much focus has been on the impact of sewer overflows to rivers, another significant impact to our rivers comes from highways drainage into our watercourses. The widespread development of roads has impacted our watercourses in many ways. The construction of roads...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Jan 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
In the latest round of Water Framework Directive (WFD) assessments in 2021, 40% of Wales’s waterbodies (WBs) achieved at least good overall status. This rises to 44% when looking just at Welsh rivers and for chemical assessment, surface waterbodies achieved a...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Jan 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
Data for Wales is accessible across a number of Welsh Government and Natural Resources Wales websites. We hope that the information and links on this page will explain where you need to look and go. If there are data you can’t find, please let us know and we can...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Dec 21, 2023 | River of the Month
December 2023 On an autumn evening in 1880 a riot broke out in a town in mid-Wales. Such was its ferocity that one man was reported lucky to have escaped with his life. The cause of the unrest? Atlantic salmon. Not their scarcity or impending extinction but instead a...