2.  Focus on agriculture/land management and impacts on
water
 Where to access Defra R&D
 Some key completed and ongoing projects (UK and EU)
 Embedding R&D
focus on knowledge transfer
Synthesis work - key handbooks/ publications
- Systematic reviews,
 Working with others to make tools available

5.  EA regulatory advice and sanctions
 CAP
o Cross compliance
o Agri-environment
o Forestry
o Capital grants
o Catchment sensitive farming
 CAP reform
o Greening, better targeting of existing tools, innovation fund
 Water company catchment schemes

6.  Foundation for water
research
(includes EA and Defra WFD
information (Defra Water
Stakeholder Forum
documents)
http://www.euwfd.com/html/en
gland_and_the_wfd.html;
 Defra R&D
http://randd.defra.gov.uk/Defa
ult.aspx?
Menu=Menu&Module=Theme
&Completed=0
ongoing & completed projects
http://www.defra.gov.uk/publications/
files/pb13471-eis-110427-
annex2.pdf

7.  WQ0106
o Cost curves for multiple diffuse pollutants
o Development of FARMSCOPER tool (tool allows users to select the most cost
effective combinations of mitigation measures to achieve defined targets for water
pollutants, greenhouse gasses and ammonia).
o Development of Revised User Guide of 83 measures for mitigating diffuse
water pollution, ammonia emissions and emissions of greenhouse gasses.
WQ0111 Faecal Indicator Organism Losses from Farming Systems Establishing
the processes and pathways of faecal indicator organism (FIO) losses from
farming systems to surface waters, and to identify the relative contribution of
different potential FIO loss routes to the overall FIO burden of surface waters. A
large number of bathing waters are currently failing due to agricultural pollution.
 WQ0108 & WQ0118 cracking-clay experimental platforms
o Understanding behaviour of livestock manure multiple pollutants through
contrasting cracking clay soils and testing practical mitigation methods that can
be adopted by industry.

8.  WQ0128 ecological impact of fine sediment
o framework for targeting mitigation of agricultural sediment losses
o techniques for targeting on-farm measures for reducing sediment loss from
agriculture according to the risk to freshwater ecology.
 WQ0129 Delivery of Phosphorus and Faecal Indicator Organisms
from Agricultural Sources to Watercourses - PEDAL 2
o Development of a decision-support tool that enables pollution risks from agriculture
within catchments to be identified where information is scarce.
o makes predictions of water quality impacts which take account of inherent
uncertainty.

9.  WQ0111 Faecal Indicator Organism Losses from Farming Systems.
o Establishing processes and pathways of FIO losses from farming systems to
surface waters (BW), and to identify the relative contribution of different potential
FIO loss routes to the overall FIO burden of surface waters.

WQ0203
o Optimising effects of practical field-scale interventions to reduce FIO fluxes
impacting on bathing waters.
o Testing mitigation measures for reducing losses of FIOs from farm steadings
(using constructed wetlands) and grazing livestock (exclusion of animals from
water-courses).

10. Demonstration Test Catchments
Defra Contacts:
Daniel McGonigle
Bob Harris

12.  To test the hypothesis - it is possible to
cost effectively reduce the impact of
agricultural diffuse water pollution on ecological function while
maintaining food security through the implementation of multiple on-
farm measures.
 To develop a research platform to host collaborative research and
thus test:
◦ More efficient and effective ways of undertaking research
◦ How interdisciplinary working can inform integrated policy.
 To explore a new model for catchment management centred around
local knowledge and understanding.

13.  5 year programme
 3 (4) Catchments
 10 sub-catchments
 each 10 Km2
in area
 £6.5 million budget
 >40 Institutions

14. Building a shared knowledge base from shared catchments
Scientific challenges – drawing it together

15.  Obtaining and using existing data, information and
knowledge more effectively, and linking currently
disparate research
 Developing a better definition of the weight of
evidence on agricultural diffuse pollution for policy and
regulation
 Obtaining and using higher resolution data using
“modern” systems; and
 By developing “communities of practice” within and
between researchers and wider stakeholder groups;

18.  http://www.wensumalliance.org.uk
Wensum Consortium: Dr. Kevin Hiscock, UEA
 http://www.edendtc.org.uk/what-is-the-river-eden-
demonstration-test-catchments-project/
Eden Consortium: Prof Phil Haygarth, Lancaster
University
 http://www.avondtc.org.uk/
Avon Consortium: Prof Adrian Collins, ADAS

20. River Basin Network
- Helen Taylor and Paul Bryson
at EA
- Janette MacDonald - SEPA

23.  WG 1. Indicators to monitor the implementation of
measures
 WG 2. Financing the agricultural measures
 WG 3. Farmers involvement, strategies and experiences
 WG 4. Interplay between the Flood Directive and flood
related measures
 WG 5. Cost-effectiveness of agricultural measures (co-
leader: England and Wales UK)
 WG 6. Comparison of policies and implementation
strategies to reduce diffuse agricultural pollution (co-
leader: Scotland (UK))
 WG 7. Irrigation related measures

24. Moving to delivery

25.  Compendium available
on EA website v. soon
 Contact Jamie Letts at
EA

26.  Right tree, right place
 http://www.forestry.gov.u
k/website/pdf.nsf/pdf/Woo
dland_and_WFD_mappin
g.pdf/
$FILE/Woodland_and_W
FD_mapping.pdf

28. Rivers Trusts ecosystem service
mapping

32.  Learning from tools used in WFD catchment
pilots
 Developing catchment appraisal and mapping
tools (spec out for tender 1-2 years)
 Systematic review for agricultural measures
 Provision of modelling and decision support tools
to get value out of r&d in guiding local delivery
 Application of ecosystems approach and PES to
water and land management - NEA (2)