Longford Demesne Wood, Sligo – an award-winning forest, protecting knowledge of our past for the future
Declan and Yvonne Foley tell us how their wood, which won the 2010 RDS Forest Service Bio-Diverse Forestry/Woodland Award, has […]
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Catchment Stories
Galway Waterways Foundation – celebrating, preserving & enhancing Galway’s rivers & canals
The Galway Waterways Foundation is working to celebrate, preserve and enhance Galway’s rivers and canals. Philip James tells us about […]
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Wexford: Duncannon school children working to understand their local streams and getting their community involved
Fran Igoe tells us how the local community in Duncannon, County Wexford have been working together to understand their local […]
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Celebrate your community’s water and its heritage – Water Heritage Day, August 25th
Celebrate water during National Heritage Week, August 17 – 25. Each year National Heritage Week takes place over the last […]
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Call for Volunteers for all-Ireland Dragonfly Survey
The National Biodiversity Data Centre has today launched a new all-Ireland survey of dragonflies and damselflies as part of an […]
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Local schoolchildren visit the River Bunowen in Galway
On Thursday, 14th of March over twenty pupils from Kilglass N.S., Ahascragh, Co. Galway and their teachers Anne Marie Bhaldraithe […]
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Slow the Flow – Natural Flood Management in Inishowen
Inishowen Rivers Trust held a public event in February 2018 to talk about Natural Flood Management in their catchment. Anja […]
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A local initiative to control invasive plant species along the River Suir Blueway attracts International volunteers.
An exciting community led initiative kicked off this summer to control and eradicate non-native invasive plants that are currently spreading […]
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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 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.
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.
Environmental Protection Agency
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.
Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
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.