WaterLIFE & CaBA Partnerships

Rob Collins – The Rivers Trust rob@theriverstrust.org

Overarching Objectives Water Stewardship: wider business commitment to support delivery of WFD in EU (Objective 2)

Civil society engagement: local and regional third sector groups engaged in River Basin Management Plan development and delivery (Objective 3) ‘Working with Communities, Businesses and Government for Healthy Rivers’ Collaborative working at a catchment scale – NGO’s, businesses, water companies, local authorities to deliver improvements to our freshwater environment

Policy Enabling Conditions • Catchment Pages in RBMP’s

Policy Enabling Conditions Flood Risk Management increasingly seen by Government as a catchment wide issue

Policy Enabling Conditions

• Building the Business Case - Letter to Secretary of State,

• Cascade Economic Report • Opportunity to influence Defra 25 year

Environment plan • Greater CaBA involvement in WFD Liaison

Panels

Capacity Building

Urban Water Management

• Series of Urban Water Management Workshops

• Aimed primarily at engaging Local Authorities (planners, flood specialists, highways etc)

• Building the case for wider engagement and collaborative working

• Capacity Building component for CaBA partnerships; SuDS, misconnections, green infrastructure etc

• Worcester Workshop – April 19th

CaBA Data Package

http://waterlife.org.uk/2015/10/brand-new-citizen-science-toolkit-launched/

Upscaling; from demo catchment to RBD

• Encourage Regional Partnership Hubs

• Drive Knowledge Exchange across the Severn RBD

• Build a shared evidence/information platform

• Help to build capacity

• Encourage development of Catchment Plans

• Support to Magnificent 7?

Shared Information Platforms & Story Maps

Engaging key stakeholders

• Series of WaterLIFE ‘how to engage’ Guides • Local Authorities, Local Businesses, Water

Companies, Agriculture Sector, LEP’s etc • Understand their business drivers • Convey the benefits to them of collaborative working

Catchment Plans • Local stakeholders collectively

prioritise action

• Catchment Plans inform WFD River Basin Management plans

• Plans capture robust evidence and data

• Can incorporate a series of project proposals

• Rationale, Outcomes, Timelines, Roles & Responsibilities

• Build confidence in the partnerships as a delivery partner

WaterLIFE, WFD & CaBA

Rob Collins – The Rivers Trust rob@theriverstrust.org