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LA Waters Programme: events for World Water Day – 22 March 2023

This World Water Day is about accelerating change to solve the water and sanitation crisis. And because water affects us all, we need everyone to take action. You can join one of the events being organised by the LA Waters Programme listed below or contact your Community Water Officer for more information.

Access to healthy and clean water is vital for our health and well-being. Each one of us can make a difference in how we use water in our daily lives. You can also get involved in community-led projects and events focussed on enhancing water quality in local rivers and lakes. If you want to get involved and take action for water, your Community Water Officer can help. You can find their contact details here: Communities Team – Local Authority Water Programme (lawaters.ie)

LAWPRO’s Community Water Officers are working with communities to deliver a number of events across Ireland for this World Water Day and some highlights are listed below.

Name of event	Description	Region	County	Location	Waterbody	Community Water Officer
Harbour to Headwaters	Biodiversity in the Avoca-Avonmore River Catchment	East & Midlands	Wicklow		Avoca-Avonmore River Catchment	Dónal O’Keeffe
Oriel River Catchments & Coastal Association’s Spring Sessions	The Oriel River Catchments & Coastal Association (ORRCA) are hosting a number of talks and presentations throughout the spring period. To celebrate World Water Day and National Water Quality Week, ORCCA are inviting the public for a joint talk and presentation by LAWPRO & ASSAP on work delivered in Priority Areas for Action and how agricultural issues are being tackled in our catchments. This event will take place on Tuesday 21st March @ 7.30pm.	Border	Louth	Spirit Store, Dundalk, Co. Louth	Castletown Estuary	Ben Malone
Celebrate the Rivers and Streams of Cork City	This special workshop dedicated to the rivers and stream of Cork City. This event will take place on World Water Day, the 22nd of March 2023 at the Old Cork Waterworks Experience From 10am to 12:30pm (refreshments served from 9:30am). It will include talks from local champions and a workshop. Jointly organised by City Council and LAWPRO.	South West	Cork	Old Waterworks Experience	Lee	Catherine Seale-Duggan
Booklet highlighting the issues surrounding water quality in the Mayo area	Midwest Radio will be broadcasting from the Lough Carra Group Water Scheme catchment from 9 am – 11 am, with the launch of the NFGWS Integrated Source Protection Pilot Project Report.	West	Mayo	Lough Carra	Lough Carra & waters in general	Tom Carolan
Using eDNA as a support tool for community based river restoration on the Lwr R. Shannon	An illustrated talk by Ruairí Ó Conchuir, Pat O’ Connor and John Hardinam followed by site visit – Castleoaks Hotel, Castleconnel Co. Limerick, Wednesday, 22nd March @ 7.00pm.	South West	Limerick	Castleconnell	Lower Shannon	Ruairí Ó Conchúír
An Evening by the Inagh River	A river walk with Ruairí Ó Conchuir exploring the biodiverity of the Inagh River followed by an illustrated talk in Falls Hotel, Ennistymon Co. Clare, Tuessday, 21st March @ 7.00pm.	South West	Clare	Ennistymon	Inagh Catchment	Ruairí Ó Conchúír
World Water Day with SDCC	Class visit discussing water quality, new local wetland by SDCC and carrying out CSSI analysis of local river Kick sample	East & Midlands	Dubin	Lucan	Liffey, Griffeen River	Dónal O’Keeffe

LA Waters World Water Day Events 2023

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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.

Who 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 water bodies.

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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.