A case Study – A market-based approach using systems thinking to deliver multiple ecosystem improvements with benefits spanning water quality, flood management, resilience, development and population growth, and socio-economic impact.

A case study about the Farm to Tap scheme – Where Severn Trent Water works with farmers to help mitigate the impact from pesticides and other run-offs from agricultural land on water quality.

A case study about how Norfolk Rivers Trust have implemented a total catchment partnership approach to achieve an improved rating for the River Stiffkey Catchment under the EU Water Framework Directive.

A case study about the grant programme run by Severn Trent as part of their ongoing commitment to protect the environment, biodiversity, soil and water, while supporting the productive sustainable use of these valuable resources.

The Environment Agency has identified 40 projects in the Environment Agency’s Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk
Management current investment programme that include NFM measures as part of their solution.
The Environment Agency has surveyed project managers and practitioners to learn more about NFM, to have more confidence in it, and be able to use it as one of
the tools to reduce flood risk.

Trent Rivers Trust, working in partnership with Severn Trent Water, The Rivers Trust and the Environment Agency engaged the local community in surveying the Alfreton Brook for sources of urban pollution using a methodology first developed by Zoological Society of London.

Case study – Farmer engagement projects to reduce metaldehyde runoff to watercourses used as drinking water sources.

Case Study – A project to research options to reduce pharmaceuticals entering the environment through two intervention pathways: social prescribing and disposal of unused medicines.

Case Study – The collaborative Moors for the Future Partnership is actively resorting peatland to improve water quality and reduce end of line costs for consumers.

A case study – Modelling Natural Flood Management (NFM) interventions for multiple benefits and developing a market to drive investment for catchment and property resilience. 

The following guidance and case studies have been created by the CaBA Urban Water Group to help catchment partnerships and planners in urban areas create sustainable catchments.

In this review, Westcountry Rivers Trust explores the data and evidence available, which, taken together, demonstrate qualitatively and quantitatively that the delivery of integrated catchment management interventions can realise genuine improvements in water quality.