04 Aug 2016

Brexit: Water & Farming  In the UK we have an excellent, world beating understanding of how farming and land-use affects the water cycle and catchment management and various programmes in place to address this. This theme will address how this theme is being addresses in Brexit debate; it now contains five articles (August 4th) see […]

28 Jul 2016

This theme of the Brexit issue will build cumulatively over the weeks with new articles being added to the list. The Environmental Audit committee have committed to a review of the Brexit decision on the environment and predominantly on the relationship with farming. This issue has enormous implications for many areas of the water industry […]

27 Apr 2016

Farmers in Northumberland are being offered an opportunity to take advantage of grants to help them protect and improve water quality and modernise their farms and equipment through a scheme run by Northumbrian Water. The water company launched Pesti-wise in 2015 as a collaborative initiative; working with farmers and growers within specific target sub-catchments to […]

17 Jan 2016

One of the emerging themes of the Northern floods is how farmers and dredging debate has once again taken off. This note covers Liz Truss’s speech and some of the resulting commentary. Environment Minister addresses the Oxford Farming Conference https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/environment-minister-addresses-the-oxford-farming-conference–2    6 January 2016  Elizabeth Truss today delivered a speech to delegates at the annual Oxford […]

15 Jul 2015

NFU ‘Farmers have met with environment minister Rory Stewart today to explain how crucial a secure supply of water is for their fruit and vegetable businesses. A delegation of NFU members representing the field vegetable, soft and top fruit sectors were invited to Westminster by the minister to talk about the proposed changes to water […]