It’s all about the algae
When people think about algae in rivers, pollution and eutrophication normally spring to mind. In this article originally published by [...]
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Catchment News
Time to rewild? – a view from across the Irish Sea
Alastair Driver, Director of Rewilding Britain, gives his views on the potential for rewilding in the UK, including natural water [...]
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River Derg catchment: pilot cross-border grant scheme in Donegal and Tyrone helps farmers protect rivers and drinking water
An innovative and exciting new pilot cross-border Land Incentive Scheme has been launched in the River Derg catchment, which will [...]
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Headford Girls National School, Galway: exploring their communities streams
On the 8th of June 2017, Headford Girls National School, Co. Galway, took part in an interactive streams exploration day, [...]
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Using Reverse Auctions to support delivery of catchment off-sets in Wessex, UK
Since June 2016, Wessex Water have been working with EnTrade, trialling a reverse auction platform to help deliver nitrogen offsets [...]
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Results-based payments for farming: delivering high quality biodiversity and other public goods
Paying farmers to deliver better environmental outcomes is the focus of the Results-based Agrienvironmental Pilot Scheme (RBAPS). Dolores Byrne tells [...]
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Holistic Hydrogeology of the South Irish Midlands
A Hydrogeologist is a scientist who studies groundwater in the rocks and soils beneath our feet. Robbie Meehan tells us [...]
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Hydrometric update: River flows and water levels in relation to the drought
During the week of July 16th, 10-20mm of rain fell on the south western and eastern-midlands-border regions, with lower rainfall [...]
Read MoreWho is involved?
Quite simply, everyone in Ireland has a role to play. This can be from something as simple as making sure you don’t pollute your local stream, or a local community working together to establish a Rivers Trust to enhance the rivers and lakes in their area, to a Government Department or Agency helping a Minister implement a new policy to help protect and enhance all our waterbodies.
This website has been developed and is maintained by the Environmental Protection Agency, and is a collaboration between the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Local Authority Waters and Communities Office.
Environmental Protection Agency
The EPA is responsible for coordinating the monitoring, assessment and reporting on the status of our 4829 waterbodies, looking at trends and changes and determining which waterbodies are at risk and what could be causing this, and drafting environmental objectives and measures for each.
Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government
The Department is responsible for making sure that the right policies, regulations and resources are in place to implement the Water Framework Directive, and developing a River Basin Management Plan and Programme of Measures that will be implemented after public consultation, and sign off by the Minister.