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Opportunity: Farming with Welsh Water

Wales

Water

Welsh Water is looking for groups of farmers who would be interested in working together to help safeguard drinking water supplies. The company has only limited ownership of the land from which it captures drinking water. To ensure the water is as clean as it can be before it reaches the water treatment works, the company is looking to work with farmer groups in its catchments to come up with new or innovative land management ideas that will protect its sources now and for years to come.

Image showing Welsh Water’s drinking water catchments | Llun yn dangos dalgylchoedd dŵr yfed Dŵr Cymru

Despite every care and effort, some agricultural activities and practices can adversely affect water quality. We are looking to work with groups in our catchments to find opportunities to improve water quality which are mutually beneficial for farming efficiency, as well as biodiversity and the wider environment.

We are offering funded facilitated groups, in Welsh or English, to support new ideas which could range from bringing in expert speakers to organising exchange visits, or from sharing some of the risks associated with trialling new approaches to scaling up ideas to be incorporated into business as usual for the group members.

If you are interested in setting up or joining a group and would like to find out more, please email watersource@dwrcymru.com