Welsh Government has allocated a sum of nearly £10 million towards improving water quality across Wales through a series of projects for 2020 to 2021:
- Nature Recovery Action Plan - Natural Resources Wales (NRW) (£1.1m)
- Rural Development Plan (RDP) through the Glastir Small Grant scheme - Water (£1.5m) - See Expression of Interest window dates July
- Natural Flood Management Programme (£1m)
- NRW Water Quality Improvement Projects (£800,000)
- Research and Development Projects (£1m)
The Gelli Aur Sustainable Farming Centre will also benefit from a proportion of Research and Development funding as it aims to develop alternative systems for water and slurry management in collaboration with NRW, Welsh Water, AHDB, Farming Connect and the FUW.
NRW will be receiving around half (£4.5m) of the total budget for a programme focussed on reversing the environmental impact from the some 1,300 abandoned mines across Wales. Leaching metals - such as iron and zinc - from these mines has been estimated to pollute around 600 kilometres of rivers.