Winning the Rivers Prize 2020: restoring our unique chalk streams for people, wildlife and the environment
Our Test and Itchen Restoration Strategy Project Officer, Heb Leman, looks into the projects work to restore Chalk Streams.
Water
Posts about our work to improve the water environment
The state of our waters: the facts
EA Chief Executive Sir James Bevan sets out the facts around the state of our rivers
How you can paddle and help us maintain the water environment
Alice Mayne, Deputy Director of Navigation at the Environment Agency, highlights how boaters and craft users can work with the Agency help to protect our waterways.
Floods and dredging
A guest blog from the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management's (CIWEM) Director of Policy, Alastair Chisholm. Floods and dredging When major floods occur, there is a commonly heard call to "dredge the rivers!" as a solution. But is …
The vital role of farmers in protecting the environment
Encouraging your views on our ongoing Challenges and Choices consultation to help protect the water environment.
Cook, cool and #BinIt4Beaches this Christmas
This Christmas #BinIt4Beaches and the Love Water partnership are reminding people of the problems caused by putting fats, oils and grease going down the sink instead of into the proper bin, and how easy it is to avoid them.
Protecting our precious chalk streams
Between May 2018 and May 2019 parts of the South East of England received 30% less rain than normal. The last three winters have been exceptionally dry and we have an on-going environmental drought across the region. There is …
Environmental Drought in Hertfordshire and North London
Fish rescue The combination of a drier than average 3 years, high water consumption and climate change means that our environment is suffering. As a result, the Environment Agency’s Hertfordshire and North London area is suffering from an Environmental …
Water is precious – taking action now will improve water quality for generations to come
As a nation, we have lost touch with water - where it comes from, why it matters and how we all need to take action to protect this most precious resource. Across England we spend about £5 billion a year …
Protecting chalk streams
Only 200 chalk streams are known globally, 85% of which are found in the UK in southern and eastern England. The Environment Agency is taking action to protect chalk streams by reducing the amount of water abstracted.