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8 November 2023, Plenary

Welsh Conservatives Debate: Water quality

… big data and in artificial intelligence, which has helped uncover unreported pollution here in Wales, working with Afonydd Cymru, and forcing Welsh Water itself to admit spewing sewage illegally at dozens of waste water treatment centres for years … the interests of its management. NRW has called for a step change in the company's performance; Afonydd Cymru say they believe it's time for a full review of both the regulation and operation of the water …

10 May 2023, Plenary

Short Debate: Are salmon facing extinction from the rivers of Wales?

… from anaerobic digestion plants. River restoration in Wales is currently hindered by the mechanisms under which organisations like Afonydd Cymru and other third sector bodies deliver their actions on the ground. So, funding programmes, whilst they're very … strategic allocation funding from Welsh Government, discharged by NRW. It is, however, based on one-year funding, and Afonydd Cymru have worked hard to advocate for this being extended to a multi-year programme; they succeeded in getting …

9 February 2023, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee

Annual scrutiny of Natural Resources Wales

… better river quality taskforce. Since its original inception, we've also invited onto the group CCWater and also Afonydd Cymru to act as critical friends, if you like, to that process, in terms of both the affordability … homes does have an impact—things like wet wipes, cotton buds and those sorts of things—and also Afonydd Cymru in terms of that environmental non-governmental organisation and holding us to account on that …

24 June 2026, Plenary

Reform UK Debate: A Welsh Rivers Act

… there are three things that I just want to focus in on. We must close the monitoring gap. Afonydd Cymru has highlighted that 90 per cent of Welsh water bodies have been assessed as being in high status …

21 January 2025, Plenary

Statement by the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs: Restoring nature in Wales

… million we're putting into NRW—but it's also the work that we do with people like Afonydd Cymru and others, working with partners, with the Tywi river trust and others, to clean up our rivers, remove …