The Local Authority Waters Programme (LAWPRO) will host community meetings on water quality across Cavan, Donegal and Longford this month.

The organisation works on behalf of Ireland’s 31 local authorities to protect and restore water quality in rivers, lakes, estuaries, ground and coastal waters.

Under Ireland’s River Basin Management Plan, LAWPRO works in areas where water quality requires protection or restoration. 

Community information meetings have been organised this month in:

Ballymahon Municipal District on April 16 @6:30pm-8p.m. in Cooney’s Hotel, Ballymahon, Co. Longford;
Cootehill Municipal District, April 21 @7-9pm, Le Chéile, 57 Market Street, Co. Cavan;
Glenties Municipal District on April 22 @7-8:30pm, An tSean Bhearic, Falcarragh, Co. Donegal.

LAWPRO is hosting the meetings in a bid to make more people aware of work to improve water quality in their local area.

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The organisation said that over the past number of years the organisation has been working in counties Cavan, Donegal and Longford as part of the second cycle River Basin Management Plan for Ireland. 

At the meetings this month LAWPRO experts will detail the work that has been carried out in the second cycle and what is being planned for the third cycle Water Action Plan

There will also be opportunities for the public to ask questions and talk to members of the Agricultural Sustainability Support and Advisory Programme (ASSAP). 

Ahead of the public meetings, Anthony Coleman, director of services with LAWPRO, said the organisation would like to take the opportunity to welcome members of the public to come along and "find out more about what’s happening in their local waterbodies and river catchments.  

Coleman said it hopes "to engage as many people as possible" at the meetings because public participation and support is key.

“We would also like to thank all those whether in a voluntary or paid capacity, working in their local areas to help make a difference to their natural waters and the biodiversity that live in and around them.”