The Sustainable Catchment Management Programme (SCaMP) aims to apply an integrated approach to catchment management across all of the 56,385 hectares of land United Utilities own in the North West, which they hold to protect the quality of water entering the reservoirs. 

Water Quality Catchment Approach provides an integrated understanding and evidence for pollution management on sites which have been identified as failing to meet their required water quality or ecological objectives.

The “Citizen Crane” project is the Crane Catchment’s citizen science project, monitoring chemical and biological water quality.

To make our rivers and streams clean again, we need to be able to work out where the pollution is coming from. SCIMAP is a risk-mapping framework designed to identify where in the landscape diffuse pollution is most likely to be originating.

Several organisations have now developed walk-over survey methodologies for locating sediment pollution in river catchments.

One target system to diagnose the effects of contaminant exposure on organisms in the environment is to monitor biological damage by examining effects on their DNA.

The evaluation of invertebrate communities living in a river or stream is one of the best methods we have for assessing the impacts of environmental stress on the health of an aquatic ecosystem.

The Bathing Water Data Explorer is an application designed to enable people to explore information about English and Welsh designated bathing waters that has been produced by the Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales.

The Catchment Data Explorer (CDE) is an online data download and visualization tool for river basin planning data.

The Ribble Life Partnership aims to engage people from local communities, farmers, public sector organisations and local businesses to help improve water quality at a local, catchment level.

There is increasing interest in the use of fluorimetry in water quality research owing to its ability to provide an efficient means of tracing organic inputs to watercourses.

A huge amount of information can be obtained using un-attended in situ water quality monitoring equipment.