The ESi Environmental Podcast Tony Hanson

Funding for woodland and habitat creation, the Environment Agency's Regulatory Position Statement on rainwater harvesting and The Fairways Foundation.

Funding abundance for environmental land management...

The consultation on the draft water resource plans are at the consultation stage, as the regional water groups try to identify demand reduction and alternative sources of supply to reduce the deficit of 3,425 million litres of water per day forecast by 2050.

Climate is changing, population is growing, consumption is historically high and reductions in water consumption are unavoidable, with difficult choices at every stage.

But, there is a solution and the leisure sector can help...

The Environment Act 2021 is going to require every business in the UK to review their environmental management to ensure compliance, and changes to water availability will impact the leisure sector reliant on water for turf irrigation.

The Water Resilience Project has worked with the leisure associations and developed the toolkit, infrastructure, assistance and potentially funding to help leisure operators develop water resilience and protect their future. 

This podcast provides a re-run of sections of the water awareness podcast from July 2020, with an update on the water resilience project and the July 2021 launch of the water industry backed Leisure Association and Leisure Operator Water Charters.

Working with the water sector has never been so important for the leisure sector, and there has never been more help available for the leisure sector from the water sector...

In this edition we tour the headlines, review UK Government reports, and focus on electric vehicles - great for UK urban air quality, maybe not so good for the environment...  

In this edition we look at consultations and policy papers about water company drought management plans, abstraction licenses and river basin management as the National Framework for Water Resource milestones are coming thick and fast.

News about the proposed Fawley Desalination plant and Wheatley Water Source abstraction trading platform and an update on the Water Use and Resilience Project as we enter the report writing phase.