by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Dec 15, 2023 | CEO Blog, News
Unfortunately, 2023 was dominated by generally negative news for Welsh rivers. Other than nutrients, the monitoring of and evidence from rivers is so poor that we do not really know what is in them and where it is coming from. If you are out and about alongside your...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Nov 29, 2023 | River of the Month
November 2023 Rising on Mynydd Llangeinwy in Glamorganshire, South Wales, the Afan is a small spate river that passes through a once heavily industrialised valley before entering Swansea Bay at Port Talbot, some 16 miles from its source. It is something of a rare yet...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Oct 26, 2023 | River of the Month
October 2023 The Ely (or Afon Elai in Welsh) is a relatively short and largely urban river in South Wales. Unusually for the rivers of the area, it does not have a reservoir in its headwaters and instead rises from the hills just north of Tonyrefail (Mynydd Penygraig,...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Oct 19, 2023 | News
Professor Hammond’s investigation has shown that Cardigan works discharged untreated sewage into the Teifi on no less than 1,146 days between January 2018 and May this year without the works being at full capacity. Cardigan Bay is home to Europe’s largest...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Oct 17, 2023 | News, Uncategorized
While the media spotlight remains focused on water companies, source apportionment modelling tells us that in Wales, agriculture is the sector with the largest contribution to excessive nutrients in rivers. Plans to introduce a manure spreading licensing scheme for...
