2. Focus on agriculture/land management and impacts on
water
Where to access Defra R&D
Some key completed and ongoing projects (UK and EU)
Embedding R&D
focus on knowledge transfer
Synthesis work - key handbooks/ publications
- Systematic reviews,
Working with others to make tools available
3.
4.
5. EA regulatory advice and sanctions
CAP
o Cross compliance
o Agri-environment
o Forestry
o Capital grants
o Catchment sensitive farming
CAP reform
o Greening, better targeting of existing tools, innovation fund
Water company catchment schemes
6. Foundation for water
research
(includes EA and Defra WFD
information (Defra Water
Stakeholder Forum
documents)
http://www.euwfd.com/html/en
gland_and_the_wfd.html;
Defra R&D
http://randd.defra.gov.uk/Defa
ult.aspx?
Menu=Menu&Module=Theme
&Completed=0
ongoing & completed projects
http://www.defra.gov.uk/publications/
files/pb13471-eis-110427-
annex2.pdf
7. WQ0106
o Cost curves for multiple diffuse pollutants
o Development of FARMSCOPER tool (tool allows users to select the most cost
effective combinations of mitigation measures to achieve defined targets for water
pollutants, greenhouse gasses and ammonia).
o Development of Revised User Guide of 83 measures for mitigating diffuse
water pollution, ammonia emissions and emissions of greenhouse gasses.
WQ0111 Faecal Indicator Organism Losses from Farming Systems Establishing
the processes and pathways of faecal indicator organism (FIO) losses from
farming systems to surface waters, and to identify the relative contribution of
different potential FIO loss routes to the overall FIO burden of surface waters. A
large number of bathing waters are currently failing due to agricultural pollution.
WQ0108 & WQ0118 cracking-clay experimental platforms
o Understanding behaviour of livestock manure multiple pollutants through
contrasting cracking clay soils and testing practical mitigation methods that can
be adopted by industry.
8. WQ0128 ecological impact of fine sediment
o framework for targeting mitigation of agricultural sediment losses
o techniques for targeting on-farm measures for reducing sediment loss from
agriculture according to the risk to freshwater ecology.
WQ0129 Delivery of Phosphorus and Faecal Indicator Organisms
from Agricultural Sources to Watercourses - PEDAL 2
o Development of a decision-support tool that enables pollution risks from agriculture
within catchments to be identified where information is scarce.
o makes predictions of water quality impacts which take account of inherent
uncertainty.
9. WQ0111 Faecal Indicator Organism Losses from Farming Systems.
o Establishing processes and pathways of FIO losses from farming systems to
surface waters (BW), and to identify the relative contribution of different potential
FIO loss routes to the overall FIO burden of surface waters.
WQ0203
o Optimising effects of practical field-scale interventions to reduce FIO fluxes
impacting on bathing waters.
o Testing mitigation measures for reducing losses of FIOs from farm steadings
(using constructed wetlands) and grazing livestock (exclusion of animals from
water-courses).
12. To test the hypothesis - it is possible to
cost effectively reduce the impact of
agricultural diffuse water pollution on ecological function while
maintaining food security through the implementation of multiple on-
farm measures.
To develop a research platform to host collaborative research and
thus test:
◦ More efficient and effective ways of undertaking research
◦ How interdisciplinary working can inform integrated policy.
To explore a new model for catchment management centred around
local knowledge and understanding.
13. 5 year programme
3 (4) Catchments
10 sub-catchments
each 10 Km2
in area
£6.5 million budget
>40 Institutions
14. Building a shared knowledge base from shared catchments
Scientific challenges – drawing it together
15. Obtaining and using existing data, information and
knowledge more effectively, and linking currently
disparate research
Developing a better definition of the weight of
evidence on agricultural diffuse pollution for policy and
regulation
Obtaining and using higher resolution data using
“modern” systems; and
By developing “communities of practice” within and
between researchers and wider stakeholder groups;
16.
17.
18. http://www.wensumalliance.org.uk
Wensum Consortium: Dr. Kevin Hiscock, UEA
http://www.edendtc.org.uk/what-is-the-river-eden-
demonstration-test-catchments-project/
Eden Consortium: Prof Phil Haygarth, Lancaster
University
http://www.avondtc.org.uk/
Avon Consortium: Prof Adrian Collins, ADAS
23. WG 1. Indicators to monitor the implementation of
measures
WG 2. Financing the agricultural measures
WG 3. Farmers involvement, strategies and experiences
WG 4. Interplay between the Flood Directive and flood
related measures
WG 5. Cost-effectiveness of agricultural measures (co-
leader: England and Wales UK)
WG 6. Comparison of policies and implementation
strategies to reduce diffuse agricultural pollution (co-
leader: Scotland (UK))
WG 7. Irrigation related measures
32. Learning from tools used in WFD catchment
pilots
Developing catchment appraisal and mapping
tools (spec out for tender 1-2 years)
Systematic review for agricultural measures
Provision of modelling and decision support tools
to get value out of r&d in guiding local delivery
Application of ecosystems approach and PES to
water and land management - NEA (2)
Notas do Editor
Who are the attendees likely to be?
Factsheets bein
Culmination of 7 exploitable ecosystem services out of a possible 35 – highlights Dartmoor and Exmoor as well as estuaries.
Agricensus data to look at intensity of cattle and arable land use with natural areas and urban removed – Ottery and Culm
We know what areas are multi functional and what the current agricultural so how much is currently used
Multifunctional areas clipped at 7 points = 20% of landscape
Blue = currently not intensive agriculture 13%; Red = conflict between intensive agriculture and eco services 7%
This equals 32,000ha – at the rate we have been working with farms (roughly £5k per ha) this is £160m
