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What is drought? 

What is drought? 

Over the past 50 years, England has suffered lots of droughts - some of the more notable ones include 1975-76, 1989-92, 1995-96, 2004-06, 2011-12 and recently 2018, 2022 and 2025. But what does this mean, how does the Environment Agency …

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Getting 'reel' value for rod licence fee payers

Posted by: Tom Howard, Posted on: 27 August 2015 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity, Water
Tom howard with fisheries enforcement officers

Not a lot of people realise how varied my job as a fisheries officer can be. One day I can be carrying out specialist fish surveys and the next, it will be all hands to the pump to assist a …

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A week in the life of a beach coordinator in Cumbria

Posted by: Emma McColm, Posted on: 26 August 2015 - Categories: Community, Greener business, Water
LOVEmyBEACH co-ordinator Emma McColm from Morecambe Bay Partnership

A week in the life of a beach coordinator in Cumbria The seaside economy contributes more than £3.6 billion each year in England and it’s crucial we protect our bathing water quality. Bathing water quality in the UK reached a …

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Morpeth: The Grand Opening

Posted by: Marie Fallon, Posted on: 25 August 2015 - Categories: Community, Flood, Water
The moment Environment Agency Chairman Sir Philip Dilley and Cllr Ian Swithenbank from Northumberland County Council open the scheme

After two years hard work and £26 million, hundreds of residents turned out to see the official opening of the Morpeth Flood Alleviation Scheme.                           As the Area …

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Restoring Passford Water in Lymington

Posted by: Lucy Roberts, Posted on: 24 August 2015 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity

It was always going to be a difficult site to develop. A piece of waste land with a history of fly-tipping and contamination from the engineering works next door which hosted a covered-up stream running through a 200-metre culvert. A …

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Managing water resources in West Cumbria

Posted by: Jen Hall, Posted on: 21 August 2015 - Categories: Climate change, Regulated industry, Water
A view of Ennerdale Water and Surrounding Fells

We’re currently working with United Utilities to deliver West Cumbria’s demand for water in the best possible way, balancing the needs of people whilst protecting the sensitive natural environment. West Cumbria needs a new water supply fit for the twenty …

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Hedgehogs to the rescue!

Posted by: James Hooker, Posted on: 18 August 2015 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity

...fisheries to bring new fish into their water. It’s important that this is regulated to ensure that new fish don’t bring disease with them, and that they will thrive in...

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What do schoolchildren think about looking after water?

Posted by: Roger Morgan, Posted on: 18 August 2015 - Categories: Community

...draft river basin management plans. The Agency asked us to put a range of key questions to the pupils about looking after water. Children’s views were noted down from discussion,...

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Fisheries team rescues hundreds of fish... and a plastic duck

Posted by: Jim Allen, Posted on: 17 August 2015 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity, Water

...us to go in and rescue the fish - a job for me and my colleagues in the fisheries team. The River Tarrant in Dorset is a little gem of...

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Helping wildlife to thrive

Posted by: Mark Iley, Posted on: 12 August 2015 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity
Volunteer river wardens undergoing RiverFly training at Church End, Gt Dunmow on the River Chelmer

...within the wider catchment partnership. Mark Iley has been the biodiversity co-ordinator for the Essex Biodiversity Project since 2008. The project is an informal partnership of around 40 organisations working...

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Build it and they will come...

Posted by: Peter Hughes, Posted on: 12 August 2015 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity, Water

...with great haste and in unpredictable ways, never ceases to amaze me. We all had great expectations for Medmerry – 180 hectares of saltmarsh, lagoons and mudflats on the Sussex...

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