New water management website launched

A new website has just been launched that provides scientific knowledge to help policy-makers in government and industry, businesses, researchers and the public to cope with increasing water demands.

It provides detailed, interdisciplinary hydro-ecological research needed to help manage permeable lowland catchments, now and in the future.

The Natural Environment Research Council's £10m Lowland Catchment Research Programme (LOCAR) has allowed scientists to unravel the complexities of how water and the material it carries move through permeable catchments. Catchments like these provide much of the drinking water for England, but both ecosystems and our drinking water are under threat from rising demand for water, a changing climate and a pollution 'time bomb' from agricultural chemicals and other pollutants already in the ground.

The website is NERC's first detailed themed science website and was designed and built by the British Geological Survey at Wallingford. It describes the issues addressed by the LOCAR Programme as well as giving more detailed descriptions of the projects and their application. It includes valuable resources such as access to LOCAR data and details of over 150 peer-reviewed publications, reports and conference abstracts that were produced by researchers working for the Programme.

Research was carried out under LOCAR from 2000 to 2006. It was funded by NERC with additional funding from Defra, the Environment Agency and the Joint Infrastructure Fund.

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New water management website launched

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