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WATER MANAGEMENT: How can
water management be sustainable
for the future?
Beverley Parrish, waste sector director, WSP UK (chair)
Chris Griffiths, commercial product manager, Marshalls
Gordon Rogers, climate change manger - environment
strategy team, Yorkshire Water
Innes Thomson, area flood risk manager, Environment
Agency
Dr Judith Thornton, post-doctoral research fellow,
water@leeds, University of Leeds
11.09.12
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• Climate change combined with increased urban
development is creating serious issues with excess
surface water run-off.
• Of the 57,000 homes affected in the 2007 summer
floods, over two thirds were the result of surface water
run-off – NOT swollen rivers.
• This situation should not be considered unusual; this is
the new normal. We can’t keep blaming “freak weather
conditions”!
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• Marshalls head office is based in Elland, in the Calder
valley.
• This year, the Calder valley has been subject to some
of the worst flooding in recent history
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We put this short film together about the floods…
Note from Base: Please view the film using the link
below, the file is too large to embed into this
powerpoint
http://www.youtube.com/marshallsgroup
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• Our objectives:
– To keep flooding on the agenda: just because the water’s gone
away, it doesn’t mean that the problem has too!
– To advocate sustainable landscaping: by adopting simple
and cost effective SUDs (Sustainable Urban Drainage)
techniques, we can mitigate the worst effects of flooding.
– To give something back to the community: flooding devastates
communities and businesses.
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• We understand that soft SUDs (attenuation ponds,
swales, trenches etc) need to co-exist with hard SUDs
(permeable paving)
• We need to work with architects, local authorities and
particularly SABs (SUDS Approval Bodies) to help
them to understand this fast evolving philosophy
• We need clear guidance and legislation to work
towards (the National SUDs Standards, for example,
have still yet to be released).
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Thank You
Climate change and
water management
Gordon Rogers
Climate Change Manager
Our climate change strategy
Adaptation
Mitigation
Preparing for
inevitable change
Reducing
greenhouse gases
Communication
Collaborating for an
effective response
Understanding our risk
• Completed our most comprehensive CCRA to date
• Increasing challenge to our services:
– water resources and quality
– excess water
• Opportunities:
– Further enhance resilience
– Innovation
– Avoid costs
Position outlined in our new publication
Managing our risks
Our climate change strategy
Adaptation
Mitigation
Preparing for
inevitable change
Reducing
greenhouse gases
Communication
Collaborating for an
effective response
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Customer
Supply Chain
Operational
310 ktCO2e
394 ktCO2e
1,814 ktCO2e
Managing our emissions
Demand reduction
Energy generation
Cultural change
Thank you
www.yorkshirewater.com/climatechange
Sustainable flood risk
management
Innes Thomson
Area Flood Risk Manager
11 September 2012
Just because the water has gone….
Working together
Community resilience
Delivering flood risk management
Flood and Water Management Act
Flood risk planning
Funding
Communication and awareness
Flood response
The future
Increased winter rainfall
Drier summers
Increased summer storms
Increased storminess
Education