The challenges facing Oxfordshire’s rivers and streams are being discussed at a day-long event.<\/p>\n
West Oxfordshire District Council’s Waterways Day 2026 is aimed at bringing together experts, organisations and communities involved in all aspects of managing water courses.<\/p>\n
A series of talks and drop-in sessions at the Corn Exchange in Witney will cover issues including water pollution, development, flooding, agriculture and nature recovery.<\/p>\n
Alistair Wray, executive member for environment said it was a chance to “hear directly” from the those working on these issues surrounding the area’s waterways.<\/p>\n
“West Oxfordshire’s waterways are hugely important to our communities, our environment and the future well-being of the district.<\/p>\n
“There are many interconnected challenges facing them, from pollution and the impact of development to flooding, agriculture and the need to restore nature,” he added.<\/p>\n
Campaigners have recently raised issues about a “toxic cocktail” of pollution<\/a> in the county’s rivers, while Witney was among the areas which suffered from flooding in November 2024<\/a> in the aftermath of Storm Bert.<\/p>\n Each session will feature expert speakers followed by a panel Q&A, giving residents the chance put their own questions.<\/p>\n Alongside the talks, visitors can drop into the Gallery at the Corn Exchange between 10:00 and 17:00 BST on Friday 9th October, where organisations working on local waterways will have stalls and information available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The challenges facing Oxfordshire’s rivers and streams are being discussed at a day-long event. West Oxfordshire District Council’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-796975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}