Water management

Water is essential for life - understanding how the water cycle works, and managing our impacts upon it, are necessary to our future. Unfortunately we have inherited a water management system that often ignores future needs, puts water quality at risk and damages wildlife. How can we manage our water and protect wetlands and wildlife?

Managing the water cycle

Water is essential for life - understanding how the water cycle works, and managing our impacts upon it, are necessary to our future. More...

Using water wisely

In order to keep our wetlands healthy, we need reliable supplies of water. Yet there are parts of our islands where the amount of water being abstracted to supply households, industry and agriculture is unsustainable, and damaging to wildlife. More...

Water quality

The quality of water in our rivers, lakes and wetlands determines the kinds of wildlife they can support. Some pollutants that enter our waters, such as pesticides or raw sewage, can have directly toxic affects on wetland wildlife, poisoning fish and other aquatic life. More...