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“Water Demand Management in a Changing Climate”  Our next CCN Water Scarcity Focus Area Workshop will be held in Birmingham on February 1^st . The event will explore a variety of facets of demand management as a key variable in the twin-track approach to water security. The day is free to attend with support from CCN and registration is now open. More Details

“Flood Risk Assessment and Brownfield Regeneration” Our next Flood Risk Focus Area Workshop will be held at LEC on February 15th in conjunction with the North West Brownfield Regeneration Forum. It will give an overview of the impact and new duties associated with the Flood and Water Management Act and explore the topic from a variety of practitioner perspectives. The day is free to attend with support from CCN and registration is now open. More Details

“Exploring Diffuse Pollution in the Landscape: New initiatives and opportunities” Phil Haygarth is leading a KE event at LEC in early March for staff at the North East Region of the England Catchment Sensitive Farming Delivery Initiative (ECSFDI). If you’d like to explore setting-up a similar initiative, please get in touch.

Lancaster exchanges diffuse pollution knowledge across China Maria-Fernanda Aller (LEC), Phil Haygarth (LEC) and Roger Pickup (School of Health and Medicine) travelled to China last week to attend several events that focussed on diffuse pollution, water   contamination and antibiotic resistance as part of the UK China Bridge project. The team are developing Anglo-Sino links in the area of eutrophication, lake restoration and catchment science. More details

CCN Annual Conference – the date for your diary is Tuesday 6^th July 2010 Our first CCN Annual Conference is designed to take forward the debate around catchment management in an uncertain future and explore challenges and opportunities for research to fill current gaps. It will summarise key elements of the CCN ongoing Workshop Programme across flood risk, water scarcity and water quality and outline progress on the guidance documentation that each of these areas are producing. More details and registration information will be available on our CCN Annual Conference page

Water Resources Management in a Changing Climate The Catchment Change Network (CCN) held a successful Workshop on ‘Water Resources Management in a Changing Climate’ on February 10th 2010. Led by Enda O’Connell (Newcastle University) and Adrian MacDonald (Leeds University) the Workshop explored methods for using the UKCP09 future climate scenarios in water resources assessment and mechanisms for transferring this knowledge to water companies so that they can update their water resources assessments using the best available science. More details

Catchment Change Network provides early-stage platform for national strategy development Two successful workshops looking at uncertainty and flood mapping & water quality and diffuse pollution were recently held by the Catchment Change Network at the Lancaster Environment Centre.  More details

Lancaster consortium wins Eden National Demonstration Test Catchment  A consortium including staff from LEC together with others including the Universities of Durham, Newcastle, Cumbria and the Eden Rivers Trust have been successful in a bid to Defra to develop a new National Demonstration Test Catchment (DTC) on the River Eden. The project, worth nearly £2 million is led by Professor Phil Haygarth and Dr David Oliver and will run initially until March 2014.  More Details