PINPOINT provides training, support and advice materials to individual Rivers Trusts and CaBA partnerships so that they can better advise farmers in England on how to reduce diffuse water pollution from agriculture.

Encourage and facilitate the use of the spatial data in ARCGIS. Train practitioners to develop their GIS and spatial data skills and, in so doing, build capability in their organisations. Environmental professionals are often highly ‘geographically literate’, but they do still require specialised, application-based training to become skilled GIS technicians who can then incorporate the robust and effective use of GIS into their day-to-day work.

The main component of a CaBA catchment plan is a list of projects and activities that move the partnership towards its vision for the catchment, whilst delivering the strategic objectives of key CaBA organisations including the Environment Agency, Natural England, Water Companies and Local Authorities.

Develop shared priorities for a catchment so CaBA partnerships have an opportunity to feed in local evidence about other benefits, in addition to WFD.

Farmscoper is a decision support tool developed by ADAS, that can be used to assess diffuse agricultural pollutant loads on a farm and quantify the impacts of farm mitigation methods on these pollutants.

Your catchment partnership will need to refresh your vision every five years. Here are some examples to get your started.

An overview of how to get started on your catchment management plan.

Urban Pollution Patrol – A trained volunteer taskforce that can provide the first line of response to assess the situation and report back to the EA.

East London’s rivers are some of the most polluted in Britain, polluted water flows down the Lea Valley past the homes of thousands of people, reducing the quality of the rivers they enjoy. To address this challenge, Thames21 launched the Love the Lea Campaign.

A list of mobile apps and maps which are most suited to capturing data and evidence related to catchment management.

A list of suggested monitoring kit used by catchment partnerships, for monitoring primarily water quality, but also some biological monitoring supplies.

Citizen Science is a fundamental data gathering and engagement tool for Catchment Based Approach (CaBA) partnerships to help develop an understanding of the issues in catchments and also to engage their local communities in identifying and delivering solutions.