The Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (DHPLG) has published a document outlining the Significant Water Management Issues for […]
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09 December 2019: The EPA has today published the Water Quality in Ireland Report for the period 2013-2018. The key findings […]
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Despite the obvious differences in climate and landscape, the experience of catchment management in Australia and Ireland has many similarities. […]
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The 2019 Catchment management Network meeting was held on 11 October in Tullamore. Ireland’s local authorities and other bodies with […]
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The Environmental Sensitivity Mapping (ESM) Webtool is a novel GIS decision-support tool for Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and planning processes […]
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The EPA Drinking Water Quality in Public Supplies Report 2018, released today, shows that the quality of drinking water in public […]
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Invasive species are a significant pressure impacting 42 or 1.8% of the 1,460 At Risk water bodies. This total of […]
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The drought of summer 2018 was a unique opportunity to measure how much water was flowing when levels were approaching […]
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Mr. Eoghan Murphy T.D. Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government has published the draft timetable and work programme […]
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In this article from the Winter 2018 Catchments Newsletter, Jenny Deakin from the EPA Catchments Unit outlines how we carried […]
Read MoreQuite 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 water bodies.
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 Programme.
The Local Authority Waters Programme coordinates the efforts of local authorities and other public bodies in the implementation of the River Basin Management Plan, and supports local community and stakeholder involvement in managing our natural waters, for everyone’s benefit.
The EPA is responsible for coordinating the monitoring, assessment and reporting on the status of our 4,842 water bodies, looking at trends and changes, determining which waterbodies are at risk and what could be causing this, and drafting environmental objectives for each.
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 to protect and restore our waters.