When water is scarce or polluted, or when people have unequal, or no access to water, tensions can rise between communities and countries. World Water Day 2024 highlighted the central role that water plays in shaping global peace, stability, and prosperity.
The annual Coastwatch citizen science autumn shore survey 2023 painted a worrying nutrient enrichment picture for the SE of Ireland. However one inlet – Bannow Bay Co Wexford – improved, with lower Nitrate discharges, dwindling green seaweed mats and flourishing seagrass. This World Water Day event is to celebrate these improvements, ask why they occurred and explore how to build on this.
We are grateful for supported from LAWPRO, OPW, the ‘more4nature’ project and Saltmills Development group which enables us to organise this free event with:
- A low water fieldtrip from Saltmills bridge into the riches of Bannow Bay
- Water and how its turned into apple juice and cider in Tintern Walled gardens
- Workshop with locals, water and farm agencies in Tintern Abbey.
This event was organised in the context of World Water Day 2024 and focused on water quality in Bannow Bay, an outlier inlet that showed improved levels of nitrate discharge in Coastwatch’s Autumn Survey 2024.
