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,...
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 | 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...
