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Integrated Water Management Hub

This page of the Integrated Water Management Hub is designed for anyone whose work involves developing national policy that affects the environment. For example, it may be relevant to those who work in Defra Group, treasury and wider government, or for those involved in green finance and wider investment. By selecting the projects below, you will find information on how the elements of our programme are relevant to your area of work, both in terms of evidence and impacts on the ground. It also includes some key messages from the project specifically for your specialisms. If you are interested in reading more there are links for you to download further information.

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Rainwater Harvesting

This project identified if the pressure on public water supply could be alleviated in the Oxford to Cambridge area by at scale adoption of rainwater harvesting in non-household settings.

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Rethinking Water Planning

This project looked at how we can better integrate water investment portfolios across the water disciplines, we used three separate case studies across the Lea, Nene and Ouse catchments to test two alternative approaches.

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Local Nature Recovery Strategy through a Blue Lens

This pilot project designed and trial a method to take a dated approach to identifying and prioritising water environment opportunities in the LNRS (Local Nature Recovery Strategy) process working with the Bedfordshrire LNRS team.

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Maximising planning for water

The project explored the impacts and opportunities of local planning policy on the water environment. We worked with three case-study authorities: West Oxfordshire, Greater Cambridge Shared Planning, and Milton Keynes, to develop guidance and a toolkit to help maximise opportunities for water and the water environment through local plans.