24 Nov 2015

South West Water: New Upstream Thinking programme to protect rivers The multi-award-winning Upstream Thinking partnership is expanding work to improve water quality in the region’s rivers with a new five-year programme. A partnership of South West Water, the Devon Wildlife Trust, the Cornwall Wildlife Trust, the Westcountry Rivers Trust and the Exmoor National Park Authority […]

13 Oct 2015

This mine of information from Bob Harris in the Autumn Demonstration Test Catchment (DTC) newsletter includes: Update on mitigation methods and farm economics Estimating the monetary cost of nutrient and sediment loss at the farm-scale in the River Eden catchment New project – Impacts of different vegetation in riparian buffer strips on hydrology and water […]

29 Jul 2015

“Catchment and River Basin Planning: Integrating Science and Governance; edited by L Smith, K Porter, K Hiscock, M J Porter and D Benson; published by Routledge in their Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management series, 2015, 292pages https://www.cmscoms.com/?p=3525 A Review by Bob Harris The recent revival of catchment management as a practical concept for water […]

29 Jun 2015

DTC provides a hugely valuable mechanism that enables and encourages the sharing of scientific practice and evidence to support effective catchment management. Click here for more information http://www.demonstratingcatchmentmanagement.net/?cat=1 DTC Conference – report and links to presentations How can we easily understand the ecological responses of aquatic organisms to changes in pollutant fluxes and flows? In […]

23 Jun 2015

February 2015 CSF: Evaluation is a core part of the Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF) project: essential for assessing delivery of objectives and the project outcomes. This report covers the project’s work since inception in 2006 and demonstrates the considerable impact of voluntary work with farmers to reduce diffuse pollution. All the activities in the Phase […]

18 May 2015

Probably a coincidence but coming on the heels of the Water Company report on the potential for catchment management https://www.cmscoms.com/?p=3564 Helm’s views are an interesting intervention at the start of the Parliament. The Natural Capital Committee is a clear commitment in the Conservative manifesto and an increasingly rare ‘green’ survivor in this Government’s programme. It […]

07 Apr 2015

A mine of information on current land use and water research. Bob Harris: Note the date for the DTC conference on 10 June at Stoneleigh Park. Click on the NEWS section of the DTC website for  http://www.demonstratingcatchmentmanagement.net/ The articles are: ·      Second Phase of DTC gets underway ·      What will it […]