Responding to Defra’s Strategic Policy Statement for OFWAT
Today Defra is setting out its new draft Strategic Policy Statement (SPS) for Ofwat, which will come into effect if it lays in Parliament for 40 days without objection. As the environment is prioritised for the first time in this draft, our CEO Dr Laurence Couldrick...
Water loving Plymouth MP supports charity’s work restoring city’s streams
PLYMOUTH’s water loving MP Luke Pollard joined Westcountry Rivers Trust (WRT) on Friday, 28 January, to see how the charity is improving the health of the city’s streams. The trust’s three-year Plymouth River Keepers (PRK) project brings together communities,...
“The decimation of our rivers cannot go on…”
Our charity is supporting demands for the Government to take urgent action following today’s (13 January) release of a damning water quality report. The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee’s Water Quality in Rivers review identifies a raft of failings...
Death by a thousand cuts…some cuts are deeper than others, but they all have an impact.
As news of a leaked internal report to Environment Agency staff apparently advised them to “shut down” and ignore reports of low-impact pollution events due to a lack of money to investigate them, our CEO Dr Laurence Couldrick speaks out. "I have often spoken about...
The Environment Agency encourages local sports clubs to become more sustainable
As new year's resolutions see more people getting involved in sporting activities, our PPP partners, the EA, share plastic reduction advice for community sports groups. The guidance comes in the form of a leaflet, which has been launched internationally, focusing on...
Tamar catchment research to aid increase in salmon smolt numbers
Our fisheries scientific officer Sam Baycock shares outcomes from our ongoing Roadford Mitigation Project. Increasing the number of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) smolts leaving the Tamar catchment is the focus of our Roadford Dam mitigation work. Since the...