On behalf of the CaBA Water Resources Working Group, The Environment Agency and The Rivers Trust (with support from the EU Interreg project ‘Water for Tomorrow’) have established a fund for communication and engagement projects that facilitate a greater understanding of surface and/or groundwater water resource challenges and support the development and implementation of sustainable […]
The latest annual report for the Catchment Based Approach (CaBA) initiative sumamrises the achievements from 452 projects. For every £ directly invested by government, CaBA partnerships have raised £6.50 from non-governmental funders. Over 14,000 volunteers and citizen scientists have been actively involved, 2,835ha of habitat have been created, 94 barriers to fish migration have been […]
Environment Agency publishes report on catchment projects in 2015-16 Environment Agency ‘This report, produced by the Environment Agency, outlines projects funded under the Catchment Partnership Action Fund. The aim of the Catchment Partnership Action Fund is to deliver improved water quality to meet the objectives of the Water Framework Directive. The fund helped to support catchment […]
The Catchment Based Approach could be one of the most significant developments made over the last five years; to sign up to its newsletter click here. Latest CaBA news includes CaBA Self-Assessment Tools now available A suite of Self-Assessment Tools is now available to help CaBA Partnerships quickly assess how well they are performing in terms […]
Water briefing: The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs has published its second catchment partnerships report for the period 2014-15. Defra delegated the powers to provide financial assistance to the Environment Agency in order to support the establishment and maintenance of partnerships across all 87 (and 6 crossborder) water management catchments in England. The Environment Agency has […]
CaBA ‘Citizen Science is a fundamental data gathering and engagement tool for Catchment Based Approach (CaBA) partnerships to help develop understanding of the issues in catchments and also to engage their local communities in identifying and delivering solutions. This resource pack has been collated to support the CaBA partnerships in their work to protect and […]
Defra ‘Following Defra’s consultation in May 2014, I am writing to alert you to the publication of the following documents: River Basin Planning Guidance – July 2014 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/river-basin-planning-guidance This is a statutory Ministerial guidance to the Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales coming into effect on 31st July 2014. Draft River Basin Planning Guidance – […]