Communities Taking Back Their Rivers
“We are where we are” is a common refrain. WRU wants to engage communities to take control and be accountable for the streams and rivers that they live on or near. Change will come because the communities have “skin in the game”.
Contact us to get help in changing the health of your river, stream, ditch, pond etc. We know the ropes on how to get your local representatives to listen up and get change done. Interested in joining the team then contact us too.
Meet the team
Kim Waters
Founder / Trustee
Kim lives in the Usk Valley and is committed to seeing a change in the state of Welsh rivers. Having spent a career with Reuters Ltd and more recently running the Abergavenny Food festival he is committed to seeing food and environmental systems fit for future generations.
Ruth Tudor
Trustee / Advisory
Ruth grew up in Eryri on a farm that straddles both the Dysynni and the Mawddach rivers. She sees the future health and vitality of Welsh communities, culture, heritage, language, people, landscapes, rivers and wildlife as inextricably connected in a lively and complex system of relationships. She now farms in Monmouthshire in a mixed organic system with horticulture and livestock. Alongside farming, she is a psychotherapist working with humans and with horses helping humans. Welsh is her first language.
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Emma Wiik
Advisory
Emma is a research ecologist with expertise in data analysis and visualisation. She gained her PhD in freshwater (paleo) ecology in 2012 at University College London, working on protected calcareous lakes in England.
Since then, she has worked mainly in the Higher Education sector as a researcher in freshwater and conservation science. She has worked in Loughborough; Regina, SK, Canada; and landed in Wales in 2017 when she started working at Bangor University. She has been a vocal critic of the toxic effects of short-term contracts in Higher Education both on the workforce and on science.
She speaks Swedish, Finnish, English, and is an active Welsh learner.
Emma using time-released from working part-time not only for a better work-life balance, but also for activism, and for supporting the Welsh Rivers Union.