Dingle Hub, Kerry – real-time remote sensing to allow continuous water quality monitoring
Can networked real-time remote sensors and other new technologies enhance existing measures to protect our water catchments while helping to […]
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EPA Catchments Unit
The EPA Catchments Unit is based in Dublin, and the team is involved with catchment science, chemistry, ecology, hydromorphology, modelling, Geographic Information Systems and planning. We work with the wider EPA, all of our local authorities, the Local Authority Waters and Communities Office, the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, and other public bodies and Departments to ensure we have the best available data and information about our catchments.
Recent articles by Patrick
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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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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Promoting pesticide best practice in key catchments
A targeted marketing campaign commenced in lat August across 11 marts covering priority catchments where pesticide exceedances are of concern […]
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Source-to-Tap in the River Derg catchment: pilot cross-border grant scheme in Donegal and Tyrone helps farmers protect rivers and drinking water
In July 2018, the Source-to-Tap project launched an innovative and exciting new pilot cross-border Land Incentive Scheme in the River […]
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Ireland’s woodlands and forests: a renewed focus under the second cycle of the River Basin Management Plan
Kevin Collins and Ken Bucke, Forestry Inspectors with the Department of Agriculture, Food & the Marine, provide us with an […]
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National Hydrometric Monitoring Programme 2018-2021
In 2018, the EPA published a National Hydrometric Monitoring Programme for 2018-2021 to coordinate the collection and analysis of information […]
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Significant Pressures: Forestry
Forestry has been identified as the fourth most prevalent significant pressure, impacting 238 waterbodies or 16% of the 1,460 At […]
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Significant Pressures: Hydromorphology
Hydromorphology is a relatively new discipline which is described in the Water Framework Directive. Hydromorphology is the study of physical […]
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Significant Pressures: Urban Waste Water
Urban Waste Water Treatment Plants and agglomeration networks (UWW) have been identified as a significant pressure in 20 % (291) […]
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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.