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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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Water levels, boars and boreholes….

Posted by: Dan Cheney, Posted on: 23 March 2015 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity, Flood, hydrometry, telemetry, Water

You may have seen my first blog where I explained a bit about my role as a hydrometry and telemetry officer and how hydrometry and telemetry form the foundation of some of the most important functions performed by the Environment Agency. …

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A Few Thoughts on Pennywort

Posted by: Rebecca Brunt, Posted on: 19 March 2015 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity, Uncategorized
Floating pennywort

I don’t think you can do my job without having a passion for the environment. It’s not a regular 9 to 5 job, and when I clock off for the day I am still thinking about the environment around me. …

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Beware of the Bio-Bullies

Posted by: Trevor Renals, Posted on: 16 March 2015 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity

Non-native species are plants and animals that have found their way to our shores but don’t originate from Great Britain. Those that are classified as ‘invasive’ have a serious negative impact on our native British species. Some of these species …

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A community approach to reducing flood risk

Posted by: Andrew Leeke, Posted on: 9 March 2015 - Categories: Climate change, Community, Flood
Devastating floods hit Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, in 2007

I have lived in Deerhurst since 1987. I knew the village was at risk of flooding even before I decided to buy a house here and that houses had last flooded in 1947, but that didn’t put me off. There …

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‘Super tides’, the weather and coastal flood risk

Posted by: John Curtin, Posted on: 20 February 2015 - Categories: Flood
Waves and beach

In this joint blog from the Environment Agency and the Met Office, we look at the issue of so-called ‘super tides’. There has been a lot of media coverage about the potential impact of so-called ‘super tides’, which are due …

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Water great way to earn a living

Posted by: Dan Cheney, Posted on: 23 January 2015 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity, Flood, hydrometry, telemetry, Water

Think you have the best job in the world? Think again! A bold claim I know but how many other jobs allow you to spend your days roaming the Great British countryside (many of our sites are very remote), spotting …

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Working with farmers around the Upper Great Ouse

Posted by: Simon Bateman, Posted on: 21 January 2015 - Categories: agriculture, Water
a training event to improve spreading delivered by the Catchment Sensitive Farming Project

My job at the Environment Agency focuses on the Catchment Sensitive Farming project around the Upper Great Ouse River catchment. The project is funded by Defra and involves working with farmers and landowners to reduce water pollution from agriculture. This …

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10 years on from the Cumbrian and Carlisle Floods of 2005

Posted by: Mike Harper, Posted on: 8 January 2015 - Categories: Flood

Over the years Carlisle has experienced some severe flooding, but none worse than in January 2005 when over 1,800 properties in the city flooded. Power and telephone lines were disrupted; road and rail networks were closed. I joined the Environment …

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Love Your River - An urban approach

Posted by: Guy Pluckwell, Posted on: 6 January 2015 - Categories: Community, Water
Volunteer group Friends of Apley Woods testing water quality in Apley

My name is Guy Pluckwell and I work on the Love Your River Telford project. When we initially surveyed the watercourses in Telford we found that they were being impacted by urban pollution, such as sewer misconnections, trading estate runoff …

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Protecting wild brown trout: It’s all in the genes

Posted by: Ian Dolben, Fisheries Scientist, Posted on: 29 December 2014 - Categories: Fisheries and biodiversity

The first fish I caught as a boy was a small wild brown trout in the Lake District. From that moment on, I had a passion for fishing – especially for wild trout. That passion has shaped my career and, …

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