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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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
There is increasing concern about the resilience of England's water supplies, because of the effects of population growth, climate change and the need to ensure enough water for natural ecosystems. Due to these pressures...
Funded by: STFC
Lead research organisation: University of Oxford
The project specifically addresses the improvement of water resource modeling for England and Wales, providing a national-scale model and proposing a new open-source model using Pywr.
Water is our most precious of shared resources and any decision regarding its abstraction, storage and discharge has important implications for all stakeholders both within a given catchment area, and for those within ad...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: YELLOW SUB GEO LTD
The project is developing a water balance modelling and stakeholder communication platform, which will help in making better decisions about water management, but it does not fully address the modelling of water resource availability for the environment.
Reliable water supply is fundamental to human health and wellbeing, and in the UK is underpinned by inter-linked infrastructure for abstraction, storage, treatment and conveyance of potable and wastewater. Climate change...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: University of Oxford
The project aims to develop analysis tools and data on climate change and future demand to enhance the resilience of the UK water system, which directly addresses the question of improving water resource availability.