UK WIR WAgriCo Mike Pocock UKWIR Client Manager Water Resources and Diffuse Pollution – A National Perspective 5 May 2006, Dorchester.

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UK WIR WAgriCo Mike Pocock UKWIR Client Manager Water Resources and Diffuse Pollution – A National Perspective 5 May 2006, Dorchester

UK WIR UKWIR members ALL Water Service operators in Scotland, Northern Ireland, England and Wales

UK WIR UKWIR - Mission Develop and deliver, in collaboration with other sponsors, regulators and researchers, a research programme that meets the priority needs of the UK water service industry

UK WIR UKWIR aims to “establish sound science for sound regulation and sound practice ”

UK WIR Collaboration ● 62 projects - >40 contractors ● 35 projects shared with others DEFRA, DWI, Environment Agency Scottish Executive, SEPA, SNIFFER EPSRC, NERC, ESRC AWWARF & WERF GWRC DTI – with other utilities EU – with gas sector, agricultural sector

UK WIR Catchment Management ● Protection of water resources ● WFD ● Water Safety Plans ● Source to Tap ● Improved reliability for optimising twin track approach to balance supply and demand ● Protection cf. end of pipe solution

UK WIR Catchment Management ● Good Agricultural Practice Guides ● LOCAR ● RELU ● Water4All ● Voluntary Initiative ● ADAPT ● Catchment Sensitive Farming

UK WIR ● Partnership ● Co-Funding EU Life Programme ● UK and Lower Saxony, Germany ● DEFRA, EA, ADAS, NFU, Wessex ● €6.9million, UK €2.8m - circa £1.9m ● Demonstrate agricultural land use measures can achieve sustained WQ improvements Frome, Piddle, Wey catchments ● UK Project Manager – Roger Trengove WAgriCo

UK WIR WAgriCo ● Outputs Reliability Transferability Repeatability Comparability Durability Investment profile capex/opex Who pays what ? Who gains what ? Investment decisions eg PR09 and WFD Programme of Measures

UK WIR WAgriCo So I thank you for your interest in the project here’s looking forward to an exciting project and now lets get on with it…..

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