Document Category: Briefing paper
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A Systems Approach to Managing the Water Environment
This briefing paper considers how a systems approach to the management of the water environment can be implemented. It explains the importance of taking a systems approach to water management, addresses how this aligns with current management practices, using case studies and examples of systems thinking to illustrate previous successes and challenges of a systems…
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Future of water resources
This briefing paper provides an overview of the key challenges currently facing the water sector and explores potential solutions to support the UK in moving towards a sustainable water sector that works for people and nature. Content is informed by a Foundation for Water Research (FWR) roundtable discussion of invited experts. Published February 2025 Header…
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Integrated Water Management and Sustainable Economic Growth
This paper aims to explore the impacts (positive and negative) of integrated water management on key matters concerning these main drivers of economic growth – where integrated water management is defined broadly to cover water quality, water resources and flood risk management – but many of the points could also relate to the narrower definition…
