Green recovery to be supported through water company investment
Ofwat has announced a £2.7 billion draft water company investment package to help the environment. For the Westcountry, this will see South West Water investing £81.042 million to deliver five schemes. We are pleased to be part of the solution in promoting a green...
Deaf Awareness Week – Jenny’s story.
Hi, I’m Jenny (she/her), Evidence and Engagement Officer at Westcountry Rivers Trust and a member of our Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity Team. I’ve always had a strong connection to nature and the outdoors and particularly loved animals when I was growing up, so I...
The canary in the cage is an eel
EELS may not be the first species most people think of as an indicator of environmental danger, but they are and we need to heed them. A hundred years ago the idea of using a canary in a cage to indicate the presence of carbon monoxide in coal mines as an early...
Roadford Mitigation Milestone 2021
A milestone has been reached this year in the Roadford mitigation programme as 275 individual river enhancements have been made. These include gravel cleaning, tree works, debris dams and fisheries surveys and represent a great achievement in the delivery of on the...