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The CaBA reporting form is now available for the financial year 2018/19. The information gathered through this form will help the CaBA National Support Group identify priorities, existing funding and cost beneficial actions, to ensure CaBA support is as effective as possible. It will also help us promote the great work of the CaBA partnerships to a great range of key stakeholders.
We have set up a post for Q & As on the CaBA Discussion Forum here, please post any questions or concerns you have on here.
The deadline for the reporting form is May 3rd.
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The Environment Agency has commissioned research to:
- Ask investors ‘What makes catchment propositions attractive to you?’
- Derive questions to help test whether you are ready for more commercially-minded partners.
You are invited to join the team on a webinar Thursday 9th May 2-3.30. This will be an opportunity to share the learning and ask further questions.
For further information please contact: Lauren.Duffield@eunomia.co.uk
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New Animations explain Natural Capital
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Three new animations, funded by the Interreg North Sea Region WaterCoG project, have been created by The Rivers Trust to visually introduce natural capital and ecosystem services in three films. The first introduces the subjects, the second provides context for soil and land management, and the third film has been created to provide context for investment decisions. |
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NFM Projects Monitoring and Evaluation Tool
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The CaBA Support team are working with ESRI to make improvements to the beta NFM Projects Monitoring and Evaluation Tool over the next few weeks.
If you are working on a Defra-funded NFM project and you have suggestions about how we can improve the tool, please submit your feedback via the tool itself, or contact Michelle Walker.
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Event: Modelling, managing and regulating emerging contaminants in surface waters
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30th April 2019, The Studio, Manchester
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The aim of this event is to share best practices to address emerging contaminants – transforming the findings from CIP1 and CIP2 into actions that improve water quality.
The Water Framework Directive has encouraged a range of interventions intended to reduce phosphorus input to water courses – both from diffuse and point sources:
- Technical solutions installed at wastewater treatment facilities;
- Flexible approaches to water quality permitting;
- Catchment-scale approaches.
This conference will consider the progress that has been made on reducing phosphorus concentrations in surface waters, and what can be learned from these initiatives to address emerging contaminants and other hazards (such as microplastics and Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR)).
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Alliance for Water Stewardship
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The Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) defines water stewardship as “the use of water that is socially and culturally equitable, environmentally sustainable and economically beneficial, achieved through a stakeholder inclusive process that includes both site- and catchment-based actions.”
The Catchment Based Approach embeds collaborative working at a river catchment scale, delivering a range of environmental, social and economic benefits and ensuring that our precious freshwater environment is protected now and into the future.
There are clear synergies between AWS, a global membership alliance built around a common approach to site and catchment level water stewardship, and the CaBA, a national movement to embed collaboration and partnership working at the catchment scale across England and Wales.
You can find out more about the new (V2) of the AWS standard and how it could compliment the work of CaBA partnerships on the business pages of the CaBA website.
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Plans for this year's CaBA conference are progressing well. This year, based on the obvious synergies, the intention is to combine the event with the Catchment Management Declaration which is designed to 'bring together a range of business from across sectors with stakeholders from across the UK to tackle the collective challenge of water stresses through catchment management'.
The aim is to hold the conference in mid-June and it's most likely to be held somewhere in the South East. Due to the limitations of the venue invitations and the ambition to invite a wider range of stakeholders, it's likely that we will have to limit the number of invitations to ensure we have a good spread of attendees. Further information will be available in the coming weeks.
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Workshop: An introduction to building your own freestation for NFM
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There are still spaces left at the free course run by King’s College London on April 2nd: Introduction to FreeStation for NFM. No previous electronics experience necessary, aimed at non-commercial organisations. From water level and soil moisture sensors for NFM to complete hydro-met stations, places are limited. Contact: sophia.burke@ambiotek.com
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