Enabling Water Smart Communities

Thanks to everyone who joined today's introductory webinar! We had an insightful presentation by Catherine Moncrieff and Bec Chau, followed by some great discussion in the Q&A session. There is still time to join tomorrow's webinar "Water for People and Places" - hosted by John Hernon from Thames Water. You can register here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d3afTkAQ To those who have already signed up - we look forward to seeing you there! More details below 👇

Final call to sign up for this week's Enabling Water Smart Communities (EWSC) webinars! We have two great sessions to kick off the EWSC autumn webinar series: 🌟 Introduction to Enabling Water Smart Communities (02 October, 2-3pm) - This session introduces the project and its key workstreams and is hosted by Catherine Moncrieff from CIWEM (The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management) and Bec Chau from Arup. Register here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ee_JRumX -- 🌟 Values focus: Water for People and Places (03 October, 1-2pm) - This session will share insights from existing water reuse systems and integrated water management plans, and implications for optimising the shared value of water reuse between developers, local authorities and water companies, and is hosted by John Hernon from Thames Water. Register here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d3afTkAQ -- Registrations to these sessions close tomorrow morning - so be quick! You can learn more about this webinar series here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eDfqBAPz NOTE: We apologise for having to reschedule the last week's introduction session, due to technical issues. These have now been resolved. #enablingwatersmartcommunities #webinar #water #autumn #housing

Enabling Water Smart Communities are proud to be a part of The Ripple Effect video series.   Stay tuned for our own film in this campaign, which highlights Eddington in Cambridge, a water smart housing development by the University of Cambridge, working with Cambridge Water and Cambridge City Council. Learn more below 👇

📢 Final call for sign-ups for the first webinar in our autumn series - registration closes tomorrow! Wednesday's introduction webinar ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dzWgt-5m More information about the series ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eDfqBAPz 💬 Please drop a message if you have any questions about this webinar series

A recent BBC article on new homes in Oxfordshire highlights the shared challenges between the water and housing sector.   The article explains how a lack of sewerage capacity could delay the delivery of more than 10,000 homes and commercial developments.   This is an issue across the country. Ageing wastewater infrastructure (including pipes, pump stations and treatment plants) result in insufficient treatment capacity, leaks and sewage spills. Housing growth puts greater pressure on these overloaded systems - not just by adding extra sewage to them, but also by adding more surface water run-off from new developments.   This is one of several shared challenges between the building and water sectors - with others including water scarcity and flood risk.   These challenges are explored in two articles by Arup, developed as part of the #EWSC project's 'discovery phase' ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eQXZtibJ -- https://lnkd.in/erenZciZ

🍂 EWSC's Autumn Webinar Series starts next week! 🍂 This is a chance for you to discover more about the project and our initial findings from some of the key workstreams. Kicking things off are Catherine Moncrieff from CIWEM (The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management) and Bec Chau from Arup on 25 September at 1pm. As well as introducing the project, they will: 👉 explore the challenges it’s aiming to address 👉 discuss the EWSC vision and framework 👉 explain what people can expect from the webinar series Register here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dzWgt-5m See you there! 👏 📌 Note: Webinar registration closes approx. two days before the session starts. Direct any registration questions to Nathan Gore ([email protected]). #enablingwatersmartcommunities #webinar #environment

Are you looking to create a more water-smart development and community?    We’d recommend the Enabling Water Smart Communities (EWSC) Autumn webinar series. EWSC is an Ofwat funded innovation project exploring the relationship between integrated water management, community engagement and practices and housing development to unlock new opportunities for cross-sector delivery and stewardship. The Hub is working with the EWSC to provide advice on the homebuilder and developer perspective, to share and input relevant insights and findings from the Hub’s work on water issues, and to promote and disseminate the EWSC’s own work to a wider development audience.   The webinars, aimed at practitioners in the building and water sector, include:    - Introduction to EWSC: 25th September, 1-2pm https://lnkd.in/dzWgt-5m - Values focus: 3rd October, 1-2pm https://lnkd.in/d3afTkAQ - Community focus: 16th October, 1-2pm https://lnkd.in/djxd7hRR   - Assets focus: 22nd October, 1-2pm https://lnkd.in/d5BtZfc6 - Stewardship focus: Date TBC    For more information, please visit: https://lnkd.in/eDfqBAPz   #WaterSmartCommunities #EWSC #Sustainability #ClimateChange

Anglian Water's George Warren will be speaking this morning at the Water Resource Management Expo (WRM Expo), on behalf of Enabling Water Smart Communities (EWSC). ➡️ 11:45 - 12:00, Water Resource Management Keynote His session will give an overview of the EWSC project, how it was born out of the challenges currently faced by the water and housing sectors, and how collaboration is needed in overcoming those challenges. He'll also talk about how the project has identified barriers, enablers and opportunities to accelerate the uptake of Integrated Water Management within new housing developments, and what's next for the project. If you are attending the event today, it would be great to see you there! You can learn more about the EWSC project here➡️https://www.ewsc.org.uk/ #watersmartcommunities #ESS24 #WRM24 #WaterSustainability

Today at the World Water Week #UKPavilion, the Ofwat Innovation Fund launched its second Learning Report, spotlighting 8 funded projects working to support and empower communities to water efficiency, including: ·      Testing and developing more sustainable water and energy solutions for people’s homes ·      Understanding how water is used and valued in different faiths and cultures, to develop bespoke water saving interventions and behaviour change campaigns ·      Introducing new technologies that will minimise water demand and offset water consumption in new housing developments. Read the report in full: https://lnkd.in/ec3C9pZZ #WWWeek Challenge Works, Arup & Isle Utilities

When you think of water smart communities and cities of the future, what is the mind drawn to? Usually, it's the physical features: water efficient buildings, rainwater use schemes and SuDS such as pavement gardens and wetlands.     But equally important is the ‘software’ of these communities. Resilience and sustainability requires us to care for infrastructure and resources with the future in mind. It requires long term place-making and managing water as a treasured resource. In other words, it requires ‘stewardship’. The Discovery Phase of the EWSC project explored water stewardship – its various definitions, interpretations and models, alongside case studies. The insights gleaned are shared in a series of articles by Dark Matter Labs, CLES - Centre for Local Economic Strategies and Arup - hosted on the project’s Medium site.    Check out this web post for an introduction to some of the concepts introduced by these articles ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eKmyM9jZ   The EWSC project is drawing on these concepts, and more, to explore and develop a community-led stewardship model that empowers diverse actors to adopt, operate and maintain water assets such as SuDS.   #SuDS #watersmartcommunities #stewardship #infrastructure