Which interventions can be used to incentivise improvements in water quality in the environment?
Background
Clean and plentiful water underpins human activity and supports natural ecosystems. A robust evidence base is required to develop policy to ensure there is a plentiful supply of water in the long term and to significantly enhance the quality of water available to all forms of life.
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Related UKRI funded projects
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UpStream: Using Participatory approaches to instigate improvements in water quality
The UpStream project aims to improve water quality in the UK and Taiwan by working with citizens to gather data, share knowledge and experiences, and develop new technologies. Motivated by environmental issues already id...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
The UpStream project aims to improve water quality by working with citizens to gather data, share knowledge, and develop new technologies.
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NERC Freshwater Quality Champions: understanding changes in quality of UK freshwaters
Deterioration in UK freshwater quality and associated effects on ecosystem services along with compounding effects of climate change and the cost-of-living crisis means research is urgently required to transform our unde...
Funded by: NERC
Why might this be relevant?
The NERC Freshwater Quality Champions project focuses on understanding changes in UK freshwater quality, but does not specifically address interventions to incentivise improvements.
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Identifying, developing and embedding citizen science techniques in action research to evaluate locally led solutions for water quality monitoring
Our NERC PATHWAYs project (NE/R003645/1) is part of a 3-year collaboration between the Department of Sciences and Technology (India) and the Natural Environmental Research Council (UK). The aim is to develop mathematical...
Funded by: BBSRC
Why might this be relevant?
The Identifying, developing and embedding citizen science techniques project focuses on evaluating locally led solutions for water quality monitoring, which partially addresses the question of incentivising improvements in water quality.