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Integrated water management and economic growth


In this webinar Dr Jonathan Fisher explores the impacts of integrated water management on the following main drivers of economic growth:

  • Enhancing Capital Assets and infrastructure including environmental infrastructure (water and flood risk management) on which he provides supporting evidence.
  • Reducing burdens on business. He demonstrates that sound and well-resourced integrated water management (and in particular the Water Framework Directive regulations) are well in line with the Department for Business and Trade’s proposed seven behaviours of smarter regulation.

He concludes with an overall assessment that recommends key requirements to enhance the impacts of integrated water management on sustainable economic growth.