Amount awarded: £8,028,022
Led by: United Utilities
Partners: Affinity Water Limited, Anglian Water Service Limited, Arup, Dwr Cymru Cyfyngedig (Welsh Water), Jacobs UK Ltd., Mott MacDonald Ltd., North Star Transition, Northern Ireland Water Ltd., Northumbrian Water Limited, Ribble Rivers Trust, RSK Group (ADAS, Salix, WRc), SES Water Plc, Severn Trent Plc, South East Rivers Trust, South West Water Limited, Southern Water Services Limited, The Nature Conservancy, The Rivers Trust, United Utilities Water Limited, Water Resources South East, Westcountry Rivers Trust, Wildfowl and Wetland Trust
Nature-based solutions have the potential to provide multiple socio-economic and environmental benefits by tackling flooding, drought and water quality issues at landscape scale. This transformational programme of work brings together multi-sectorial expertise and leadership to collaboratively create and test new solutions to remove these barriers through real-life case studies and facilitate and enable transition of nature-based solutions into business-as-usual to deliver greater value for customers, society, environment.
“Water companies want to use lower carbon and more environmentally-friendly solutions to serve our customers; the know-how is limited and solutions can be expensive for scale. This project will help us to lower the total cost of nature-based solutions, including customers in decision-making and help us all go greener faster.” – Kieran Brocklebank, Head of Innovation, United Utilities
