The Water Roadmap: Building environmental and business resilience together

Summary

By collaborating with a range of food and agricultural businesses, we are developing solutions to help both businesses and the local water environment become more resilient to a changing climate, improving water management, soil health and biodiversity.

Project description

Norfolk and the Cam and Ely Ouse (CamEO) catchments are key sourcing areas for pig and poultry production, potatoes, vegetable and salad crops as well as cereals (wheat, barley and oats), oil seeds and sugar beet.

In a region home to globally rare chalk rivers and associated species, diffuse pollution from agriculture is a significant contributor to the poor health of the local water environment. Additionally, the region faces water availability pressures, exacerbated by unsustainable water use and climate change.

By working with farms and supply chain businesses, we are developing and implementing solutions to tackle these challenges and improve the resilience of our water environment. This includes providing targeted farm support to deliver bespoke on-farm measures that improve water retention, reduce runoff, protect soils, enhance biodiversity, and strengthen the resilience of the surrounding water environment.

Find out more about this Water Resource Action Plan (WRAP) Water Roadmap project.

Project actions and goals

Engage with agri-businesses to identify challenges and opportunities within
supply chains.
Develop innovation and evolve best practice with key sectors - cereal growers,
root vegetable growers and livestock farmers.
Facilitate knowledge-exchange and collaboration opportunities through supply
chains.
Communicate and encourage uptake of best available techniques.