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30 Jan 2020

Yorkshire Water leads the way bringing landowners together to explore using land management to tackle climate change

Landowners covering more than a third of Yorkshire’s land area gathered at Cloth Hall in Leeds recently to discuss how changes to land management can help tackle the challenge of climate change. Facilitated by Yorkshire Water, the county’s second largest landowner, the inaugural Yorkshire Land Anchor Network Event included representatives from organisations such as the […]

29 Nov 2019

South West & Yorkshire signing up for lots more tree planting for National Tree Week

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Tree planting is catching on. Even the Daily Mail are promoting tree planting! South West Water marks National Tree Week with promise to plant 100,000 trees South West Water has announced plans to plant at least 100,000 trees over the next 10 years. The water company will work with key partners to plant trees on land […]

19 Nov 2019

Yorkshire & Derbyshire 2019 Major flood – as flood warnings spread to other parts of the country

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Government co-ordinated coverage of the picture of flooding in England and the response Farming recovery funds from Government for Yorkshire & the Midlands (Nov 13th) Emma Howard Boyd statement on the floods (12/11/2019) Thousands of homes to be built on flood plains Slowing the flow and upland management Flooding chaos in northern England to continue […]

12 Nov 2019

The Yorkshire – Derbyshire Major Food November Event of 2019

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Usual characteristics of normal major floods Horrifying flood warning maps … with severe warnings in place ‘A month’s rain fell in ….’ In this case on saturated ground ‘Record levels’ of flow in the rivers Prolonged rain, high river levels and warnings Some defences work … whilst the problem is pushed further down the catchment […]

27 Aug 2019

Six Capitals Approach – Yorkshire Water promote their work

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Many organisations are using multiple capitals to promote their societal, environmental and economic operations. This is the approach laid out in Jonathon Porritt’s book ‘Capitalism as if the World matters’. The Water Companies have been at forefront of this approach. With the focus in the UK on natural capital some people have lost sight of […]

08 Aug 2019

Extreme rainfall event strikes North Yorkshire devastating local infrastructure

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Extreme rainfall (82 mm in 24 hours 30th July) in the Yorkshire Dales lead to major damage to rural infrastructure John Curtin ‘Incredible hydrograph for Swale at Grinton Bridge – 2.5m rise in just a few minutes (note this is raw data).’ pic.twitter.com/UlTj4BTyIx A month’s rainfall in a few hours – how often have we […]

27 Mar 2019

Reducing domestic water use – Yorkshire water looks at customer behaviour

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Yorkshire Water – customer behaviour campaigns to cut water use more effective than hosepipe bans The threat of a hosepipe ban during a hot summer could be a thing of the past, thanks to improvements in communications technology and a greater understanding of how to encourage customers to reduce water use, according to new proposals from […]

05 Feb 2019

CIRIA Proposal Guidance on delivery of Natural Flood Management – Expressions of interest sought

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Two items: CIRIA Proposal Guidance on delivery of Natural Flood Management Natural Flood Management requesting expressions of interest CIRIA is looking for expressions of interest from research teams that would like to competitively tender to deliver the technical work for Proposal 2970 Guidance on the delivery of Natural Flood Management (the proposal can be found here). CIRIA would […]