This document summarizes a meeting of the East of England Water Partnership. The objectives of the meeting were to establish a common purpose and priorities for water management in the region, identify key stakeholders, and ensure commitment to agreed plans. Presentations were given by water companies on their strategies. Groups discussed developing a concordat to define the partnership's purpose, aims, membership, governance and commitments. They also discussed strategic priorities and plans for 2015-2020, including partnership approaches to resilience, growth, customer behavior and climate change. The meeting aimed to facilitate collaboration on water stewardship and delivery of regional projects.

1. East of England Water Partnership
5th November 2013

2. Welcome from Chair
Jane Hunt
Environment Agency

3. Objectives for today
• Ensure that we leave with a common sense of
purpose for the Water Partnership
• Identify the priorities for water management
and water stewardship in the region
• Identify the key stakeholders we need to make
it happen
• Give ourselves confidence that everyone is
committed to what we agree

4. Group Discussion
Ambition for the Partnership

5. Group discussion
Vision
• Work collaboratively and show leadership on water
management
• Oversee delivery of key regional projects such as Water
Resource East Anglia and water efficiency initiatives
• Organise wider water forums which give all water users a say
on water management
• Work across sectors and organisations to improve resilience
for future droughts
• Promotes best practice in communications
• Shape governance arrangements for national water resource
management and to prepare for future droughts
• Ensure a coordinated and planned response to the pressures
of population growth and climate change.

6. Group discussion
Concordat
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Purpose
Aims and objectives
Membership
Governance
Commitment

7. Professor Elise Cartmell
Professor of Water Technology
Cranfield Water Science Institute

8. Cranfield University

9. Who Are We?
• A global centre of expertise in
science, technology, engineering
and management (STEM)
• An environment for strongly
business-engaged research,
innovation, and postgraduate
education
• Renowned for delivering
programmes that transform
professional lives

10. Thematic & Sector
Focus
• Aerospace
• Automotive
• Defence & Security
• Energy
• Environment
• Health
• Management
• Manufacturing

11. Our Graduates
• Cranfield dominates areas of
UK Postgraduate Education
• MBA Ranked No. 1 in the UK
and No. 3 in the World*
• Cranfield is one of the top UK
universities for graduate
employment **
• Truly international
* The Economist & The Wall Street Journal
** 93% (source HESA)

12. Number of postgraduate students studying Engineering and Technology:
2010/11
Number of postgraduate students
3500
3000
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0
Source: HESA (2012). NB: Only HEIs with more than 500 students registered in engineering and technology are shown.

13. Research
• One the UK‟s top five research
intensive universities*
(with Oxford, Cambridge and London‟s
Imperial College and UCL)
• Ranked 3rd in the UK for „research
power‟ in Mechanical, Aeronautical
& Manufacturing Engineering
(UK RAE, December 2008)
*research income as percentage of turnover

14. Strategic Partnership
Examples
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Airbus
ARA
AVIC
BAE Systems
Boeing
Civil Aviation Authority
DEFRA
DSTL
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Jaguar Landrover
P&G
QinetiQ
Rolls Royce
Severn Trent Water
Unilever
Yorkshire Water

15. Cranfield Water
Science Institute

16. Cranfield Water Science Institute
Aim to drive water innovation and deliver excellence
Internationally-recognized centre of excellence
undertaking research, consultancy, and education in
science, engineering and management of water in the
municipal, industrial and natural environments.

17. Water
Irrigation
Biochem Risk
Chemical Management Modelling
Engineering
Engineering River
Analytical
Restoration Water and
Chemistry
sanitation
Membrane
Science
Gas Systems
Extensive Catchment Climate Change Molecular
Processes Management Asset
Microbiology
Economics
Management

18. Focus on thematic research areas
Maintaining the flow
International water
development
Sewage works of the future
Infrastructure and governance
Securing food in a changing
world
Membranes
Catchment processes
Instrumentation and control

20. Examples of
Research Clients –
UK Water
Facilities

22. Sewage treatment works facilities

23. Pilot hall
• Three 1 m3 pilot
wastewater treatment
plants
• Gas testing
• MBRs,
• Media beds
• Anaerobic processes
• Ponds
• UASBs
• Anaerobic digesters

24. Laboratories
Media development
Conventional and advanced
water, wastewater and surface
analysis

25. Renewable energy demonstrator
1.5 m3 pilot digester linked
to a CHP engine and
combustion and gasification
pilot plants

26. Experimental farm 120 hectares
Soil lysimeters
Boreholes

27. FAAM
Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Monitoring

28. Cranfield Airport

29. Masters Level
Teaching

30. We offer Masters courses that can
be completed full-time or parttime.......
MSc in Water:
Water & Wastewater Engineering
Environmental Water Management
Community Water & Sanitation
MTech in Water Processes

31. MTech Water Processes
Scope
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Asset planning and management
Process optimisation
Water company R&D
Process design
Careers
• Water companies
• Environmental / engineering consultancies
• Research
Dr Pete Jarvis
Course tutor

32. Professional development short courses

33. Relevant work at
Cranfield

34. Field studies and monitoring
Catchment
Studies
Data analysis
Holman et al (2010),
STOTEN 408, 1847-1857
Catchment Modelling
1.3
Simulated Mineral Phosphorus
1.2
Measured Ortho-phosphorus
Flood risk management
1.1
Concentration (mg l-1)
1.0
0.9
0.8
0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0.0
01/01/88
01/01/89
02/01/90
03/01/91
04/01/92
04/01/93
Date (Day)
05/01/94
06/01/95
07/01/96
07/01/97
Hess et al. (2010) Hydrolog Proc 24(10), 1357-1368

35. Nar:
• Land and soil
management
• Recharge
The Fens:
• Land drainage &
Carbon
• Wetland restoration
Wensum:
• Water resources
• Water quality
• DTC consortium
• Soil structure
Bure & Ant:
• Water resources
• Water quality
• Catchment
management
Thurne:
• Water resources
• River modelling
• Drainage
• Wetland
restoration
• Salinity
East Anglia:
• Land use modelling
(RegIS)
• Climate change impacts
• CFMP Land Management
Delivery Tool

36. Irrigation & water resources
Irrigation technology
Irrigation scheduling
Water user groups
Farm reservoirs
Water trading

37. Climate change impacts
Potatoes near Cambridge
UKCP09 data, with 10% and 90% probability error bars
(wet years)
(dry years)
Probability density (per mm) .
0.007
0.006
0.005
2050L
0.004
2050H
Actual
0.003
0.002
0.001
0
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
Irrigation requirement (mm)
Source: © Cranfield University
450
500
550

38. Water footprinting - potato production in England
Water used in
processing 0.3 m3/t
Blue water withdrawn
0.3 m3/t
Consumed
0.1 m3/t
Returned
0.2 m3/t
• Water use 109 m3/t
• 68% green water
Water used in growing
108.7 m3/t
Blue water withdrawn
35.0 m3/t
Consumed
21.0 m3/t
Returned
14.0 m3/t
Green water
73.7 m3/t
Consumed
73.7 m3/t
• Total water consumption 95 m3/t
• 78% green water
• Almost all in the growing phase

39. Water risk mapping
(Source: EA, 2008)

40. Climate change impacts on crop production and land suitability
Baseline
2030H
2050H
Cropped area
2030L
2050L
Daccache, A., Keay, C., Jones, R.J.A., Weatherhead, E.K, Stalham, M.A., and Knox, J.W
(2012). Climate change and land suitability for potato production in England and Wales:
impacts and adaptation. Journal of Agricultural Science 150: (2): 161-177

41. Water quality risk
Relative hazard exposure potential for livestock suppliers – runoff and sediment

42. Improving water use efficiency and
water capture in field crops
• Improved water use efficiency: Genetic
manipulation of abscisic acid biosynthesis in
tomato: a model crop system to study the
impact of elevated ABA on water use
efficiency and root hydraulics.
Improved root systems for water capture: Genetics of root
development in tomato: discovery and fine-mapping of QTL and
monogenic mutants that impact on long-term root distribution in soil
Novel tomato rootstocks to confer water use efficiency and
resistance to abiotic stress: e.g. EU FP7 project: “ROOTOPOWER”.
2012-2015

44. Group Discussion
Areas of common ground

45. Thoughts for afternoon
and next steps

46. East of England Water Partnership
Networking lunch

47. East of England Water Partnership
Stakeholder Session
5th November 2013

48. Welcome from Chair
Jane Hunt
Environment Agency

49. Presentations from the Water
Partnership
Peter Simpson – Anglian Water
John Devall – Essex & Suffolk Water

50. Group Discussion
David Webb - Sustainability East

51. Group discussion
Strategy and Plans for 2015 – 2020
• Partnership and collaboration in practice
e.g. Water stewardship
• Topics that could benefit most from a
partnership approach
e.g. Resilience, growth, customer behaviour,
climate change
• Concepts, tools and projects to deliver aims
e.g. behaviour change, projects such as Water
Resources East Anglia

52. Summary and Next Steps