drought

Applications to attend workshop closes: 27^th June 2016      

Closing date: 16:00 on Tuesday 6^th September

As part of the GCRF, NERC, AHRC & ESRC invite proposals to address the challenge of Building Resilience in developing countries.

This project assessed the performance of different types of public water supply systems in England and Wales in a range of droughts, including those that are more severe than the worst droughts in the historical record.

This information was used to identify the relative sensitivity of different supply systems under stress. The results of these ‘stress tests’ will help to improve our understanding of water supply system sensitivity to drought.

Application closing date: 15 February 2016

NERC, Unilever, the Big Innovation Centre and Hackmasters are inviting expressions of interest from academic partners to collaborate in a five-day hack-week focused on the challenge of water scarcity. Academics are invited to apply to take part in this event by completing the form below.

The hack-week will be held in London on 7-11 March 2016, 09:00-18:00 daily. Applicants must attend for the entire week.

Current water resources planning in England and Wales tests the resilience of public water supply systems against the worst historical droughts in the observed record. This approach, however, does not assess how a water supply system would respond when pushed beyond these historical design conditions. This project aimed to understand the performance of different types of water supply systems to a range of droughts, including those that are more severe than the worst case historical droughts, 

A new report from the UK Water Partnership, Droughts and Floods – towards a more holistic approach has just been published. It can be found here with an accompanying blog by the leading author Jim Wharfe.

The UK Water Partnership is now exploring how to take forward the recommendation for a more holistic environmental approach to flooding and drought research, innovation and implementation, including opportunities for a range of ecosystem-related markets.