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.
Technical Support & TrainingUrban Water ManagementCase Studies & ProjectsDelivering Improvements
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.
Rural Land ManagementMonitoring ChangeUsing Data & EvidenceCase Studies & ProjectsWater Quality
Yellow fish is simple project where yellow fish are painted next to drains to remind people that what is put down a drain impacts aquatic life.
Water QualityEngaging StakeholdersCase Studies & ProjectsVolunteers & Citizen Science
As part of the Natural Course project, City of Trees created a wet woodland in the heart of Salford to help improve the failing water quality of the Worsley Brook. A year on and the wet woodland is now thriving with greenery and wildlife is returning to the area.
Urban Water ManagementWater QualityDelivering ImprovementsCase Studies & Projects
The Sheffield Waterways Strategy shows an inspiring vision of Sheffield’s rivers by 2022; once again providing places where people choose to live, work and invest.
Urban Water ManagementCase Studies & ProjectsDelivering Improvements
Environmental Stewardship is a land management scheme that provides funding to farmers and other land managers in England to deliver effective environmental management on your land.
Norfolk Rivers Trust have created an innovative, natural treatment plant for over a million litres of water a day to help improve the quality of water that is returned to the River Ingol, one of Norfolk’s precious chalk streams.
Delivering ImprovementsWater ResourcesCase Studies & ProjectsRiver Restoration & WildlifeWater Quality
This note provides some basic guidance for CaBA Partnerships on how to engage their LEP and provides examples of collaboration.
Case Studies & ProjectsEngaging StakeholdersUrban Water ManagementTechnical Support & Training
Upstream thinking is an initiative which looks at how land is managed to protect our rivers. By working with landowners, we can make changes to how land is managed to keep unwanted things out of rivers.
Delivering ImprovementsCase Studies & ProjectsWater ResourcesFlood ResilienceWater Stewardship
This policy work was led by WWF and had a focus on chalk streams: the crystal-clear, havens for wildlife rivers characteristic of southern and eastern England.
Case Studies & ProjectsWater QualityRiver Restoration & WildlifeRural Land Management
Water Co-Governance (WaterCoG) is an Interreg VB EU project aiming to share knowledge, develop and promote best practice approaches to water co-governance
Delivering ImprovementsCase Studies & Projects
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.
Volunteers & Citizen ScienceCase Studies & ProjectsWater Quality