05 Sep 2024
A group of organisations, led by the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and including NGOs, consultants and water companies, has published The Catchment Management Declaration: a renewed, collaborative commitment to water. Originally launched by the (then) Prince of Wales in 2018, these organisations will take a collaborative approach to managing water and natural capital […]
03 Apr 2024
The management of environmental water quality and the impact of agriculture and effluent discharges has been a subject of intense debate in recent times. The Worshipful Company of Water Conservators (WCWC) has responded by organising a programme focusing on the ‘wisdom of water’ in which there is a series of debates, webinars, and think pieces […]
06 Jun 2018
Prince Charles popped down the road from Highgrove to speak at a Water Summit, which helped launch a Catchment Management Declaration. Over 60 organisations including businesses such as M&S, Nestlé, Coca Cola and Asda as well as number of water companies including Anglian Water, Thames Water and Yorkshire Water, have agreed to step up action […]
17 Jan 2016
This text is from the Catchment Based Approach website and it is interesting to note the range of material becoming available under the open access thinking. March 2015 update to the data & GIS package is now available including: – Landcover maps (LCM 2000 & 2007) – Risk of flooding from rivers and sea (NAFRA) […]
06 Jan 2016
Bob Harris ‘This is the last Demonstration Test Catchment (DTC) newsletter that I shall be putting together, the task passing to the Wensum DTC Consortium for 2016 (contact: Andrew Lovett). I’ve really enjoyed my 6+ years working with Defra, the DTC Consortia and the wider related research and stakeholder groups. The early days were exciting […]
06 Jan 2016
Fourteen articles on catchment management – the usual mine of information – click here to the website and News sections http://www.demonstratingcatchmentmanagement.net/ Short articles on the following topics: Storm Desmond causes devastating floods in River Eden catchment Is there evidence of ‘biogeochemical stationarity’ in the River Wensum catchment? DTC Data and the Data Archive The Use […]
09 Dec 2015
This page of the CaBA website provides 50 examples of best practice – well worth a visit http://www.catchmentbasedapproach.org/best-practice Examples include: Ecosystem Services Visualisation The CaBA Mentoring Programme Examples of stakeholder engagement The Rivers Trust mapping portal And much, much more ….
24 Nov 2015
Environment Agency Blog: Jeremy Walker, chair of the innovative ‘Slowing the Flow’ project in North Yorkshire, explains how a range of land management measures are helping to reduce flood risk in the market town of Pickering. The project, which was officially completed this autumn, was recently opened by Defra Secretary of State Elizabeth Truss. The […]
