Water Companies

It is an Executive Non-departmental Public Body responsible to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and a Welsh Government Sponsored Body responsible to the Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development. The Agency’s principal aims are to protect and improve the environment, and to promote sustainable development and plays a central role […]

Depending on the source and extent of flood risk options range from ‘hard’ engineering measures such as stormwater storage tanks, culverts, flood relief channels, flood walls and embankments, to ‘soft’ engineering measures, known as Natural Flood Management. These Natural Flood Management techniques aim to slow the flow in the upper catchments such as woody debris […]

The authority’s primary functions comprise the provision of flood defence and water level management to the Middle Level area, and as navigation authority for the navigable waters of the Middle Level system. The Commissioners have also certain conservation duties to fulfill when undertaking their functions.

NRW’s purpose is to ‘pursue sustainable management of natural resources’ and ‘apply the principles of sustainable management of natural resources’ as stated in the Environment (Wales) Act 2016. Water: NRW are working to ensure that water companies, farmers and industry do not take too much water from the environment through a permitting system, by regulating […]