Science, Water and Nature: striving for a sustainable future
Engineering, agriculture, ecology and the water industry – collaborating to maximise the use of nature-based solutions. What have we learnt and what can we do to facilitate a sustainable future ensuring costs and benefits for industry and society are understood?
PROGRAMME
| TIME | SESSION | SPEAKER |
| 08.45 | Introduction & housekeeping | |
| 09.00 |
Session 3: What is a fair way of funding sustainable progress in the water industry? |
Sarah Hendry Director General, CLA |
| Natural capital accounting |
Ian Dickie Director, eftec |
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| Integrated approach |
Phillip Blaen Sustainability Manager & Lucille Hutty Economic Modeller, Yorkshire Water |
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Funding, partnership and achieving multiple benefits at catchment scale: a 'bottom-up' perspective from Tweed |
Chris Spray Tweed Forum trustee & Emertius Professor of Water Sciences & Policy, UNESCO centre, Uni of Dundee |
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| Debate |
Including session speakers and James Good, Partner, BCLP, & Bart Schoonbaert, Ofwat |
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| Q&A | ||
| 10.30 | Break | |
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10.50 |
Workshops |
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a) How could a large waterbody like Abberton be used as a purpose- built laboratory for future innovation? What could future collaborations across sectors, industry and academia look like? |
Max Wade President CIEEM, Technical Director, AECOM |
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b) How do we make the most of regulatory and legislative changes (such as WINEP reform, Environment Bill, Agriculture Bill) to increase partnership working and get nature-based solutions to scale? |
Bart Schoonbaert Director - Environment, Public Value & Governance, Ofwat |
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c) How to standardise and make it the normal to include social and natural costs and benefits as part of the whole life costings of projects? |
Ian Dickie Director, eftec |
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| 12.00 | Feedback by facilitators | |
| 12.30 | Lunch | |
| 13.30 |
Session 4: What next? How to build on successes? How can the learning from this event be used? |
Simon Lyster former Non- Executive Director, Northumbrian Water Group |
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Case study – Healthy Crops, Healthy Water: Partnerships not projects |
Richard Reynolds Senior Agronomy Advisor, Anglian Water |
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Case study – incentives for catchment solutions |
Ben Balmford PHD and Post Doc researcher, University of Exeter |
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| Q&A | ||
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Forward look discussion |
Keith Haslett, Max Wade, James Good, Bart Schoonbaert |
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| 14.50 | Closing remarks | |