by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Sep 15, 2025 | CEO Blog
Tuesday 16th September, 2025 With the onset of autumn it is easy to forget that (as of writing) most of Wales remains in “environmental drought” status. This situation has been declared by Natural Resources Wales because of exceptionally low rainfall, significantly...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Jan 16, 2025 | CEO Blog, News
Thursday 16th January, 2025 Without doubt, rivers are suddenly top of the campaigning, media and political agenda. In his Boxing Day speech, Environment Secretary Steve Reed (with reference to the recently closed consultation for inland bathing water designation) made...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Aug 21, 2024 | CEO Blog, News
The money spent on the Seine before the Olympics was never going to “clean up” the river in the long-term. Water companies, regulators and Governments have assumed that low customer bills should be the focus without ever explaining that this means less...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Dec 15, 2023 | CEO Blog, News
Unfortunately, 2023 was dominated by generally negative news for Welsh rivers. Other than nutrients, the monitoring of and evidence from rivers is so poor that we do not really know what is in them and where it is coming from. If you are out and about alongside your...
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Sep 1, 2023 | CEO Blog, News
Competent Authorities in England will now be required to assume that wastewater from new housing developments will not adversely impact protected sites. Here in Wales the First Minister and his Government have recently committed themselves to nutrient neutrality....
by Seth Johnson-Marshall | Jun 26, 2023 | CEO Blog
While water resources are apparently robust, some rivers in Wales are lower than this time last year followign the second driest May on record. Is it time for another “review of consents” for abstraction from Welsh rivers? Afonydd Cymru has recently...
