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🌊 Danube Update: Austria
📅 14.05.2026

📍 Duernstein: 302 cm
📍 Grein: 711 cm
📍 Korneuburg: 215 cm
📍 Mauthausen: 425 cm
📍 Wilhering: 253 cm

🔗 More: https://danubealert.com/en/Austria

#Donau #Österreich #Wasserstand #Fluss #DanubeAlert #WaterMonitoring

🌊 Danube Update: Austria
📅 13.05.2026

📍 Duernstein: 310 cm
📍 Grein: 715 cm
📍 Korneuburg: 215 cm
📍 Mauthausen: 424 cm
📍 Wilhering: 261 cm

🔗 More: https://danubealert.com/en/Austria

#Donau #Österreich #Wasserstand #Fluss #DanubeAlert #WaterMonitoring

Floods, droughts, leaks — are you measuring from the right direction? 💧

From above: radar, ultrasonic, laser sensors mounted over the surface. No contact with the water.
From below: pressure sensors lowered into tanks, groundwater, boreholes.

All battery-powered, all wireless via LoRaWAN. No cabling — even in the most remote locations.

https://decentlab.com/products

#LoRaWAN #IoT #WaterMonitoring #FloodMonitoring #RemoteSensing #SensorTech

So, when I first saw this headline, I thought it was about the #UnitedStates making #EPA staffing cuts. Nope! It's the #UK! And this has been going on for a while now!

Thousands of #RiverPollution tests cancelled because of staff shortages

by Jonah Fisher, July 24, 2025

Excerpt: "Staffing problems are nothing new at the EA. In 2023 its chairman Alan Lovell told parliament that it had 'struggled with recruitment and retention of staff'.

"Internal emails obtained by campaign groups #Greenpeace and #Desmog through freedom of information requests were shared with the BBC. They show EA officials discussing the impact of staff departures on testing and saying that others planned to leave.

"One senior official, writing an email to her colleagues, said it was 'not good news I'm afraid' adding 'this isn't where we want to be (again)'.

"Helen Nightingale, who worked at the #EnvironmentAgency as a catchment planner, analysing data from its water quality programme until 2022, says that while she was there she saw a shift of focus away from serious investigation to trying to find 'successes'.

"She also said that morale was low: "The pay is not great – we didn't have pay rises for years due to #austerity.

" 'But a lot people are in it [the EA] because they want to make a difference – and when you're not even getting that - well, what's the point?'

"Documents seen by the BBC show that the work affected by the cuts to testing this year included investigations into the water industry in various parts of the country, and monitoring of #ProtectedAreas including the #RiverWye, which is currently facing a #pollution crisis linked to intensive #ChickenFarming."

Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx24xy8zgp4o

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/o15LD

#WaterIsLife #UKNews #WaterPollution #WaterMonitoring #FactoryFarming #Drought #WaterLevels #Sewage

Mini cascading #waterfalls along #FellowsCreek - one of several tributaries that feed into the #KoksilahRiver. It's part of the Xwulqw’selu #Koksilah #Watershed on Southern #VancouverIsland.
Backroads access view. In Summer, it dries up in multiple areas.

Fellows Creek is part of the #TwinnedWatershedsProject, which is co-led by #CowichanWatershed Board, #CowichanTribes & #Halalt #FirstNation. It launched in 2021 to document the state of the watersheds & identify possibilities for improving their #ecological health. #Salmon are specifically being studied as part of this 5 year project because they are a #KeystoneSpecies that helps signal the health of a watershed.

The Xwulqw’selu & Chemainus watersheds are both located in the highly privatized, highly degraded landscape of southeast Vancouver Island & face similar issues. The #rivers and their #tributaries have been deeply impacted by land use & #ClimateChange. Unlike the neighbouring Quw’utsun (Cowichan) watershed, the Xwulqw’selu & Chemainus rivers have no lake to store water, which leaves them more vulnerable to drought & dangerously low flows.

Learn more about the Twinned Watersheds Project:
https://cowichanwatershedboard.ca/twinned-watershed

#BCWatersheds #WaterIsLife #PacificNorthwest #BritishColumbia #Cascadia #PNW #ecosystems #ProtectWatersheds #Nature #Streamkeepers #WaterMonitoring #WaterHealth #Environmental #WaterfallWednesday #Ecology #hydrology