3. Who pays?
Clean Water
Organisational objectives
Beneficiary Pays
Environmental improvements
Society Pays
Legislative requirements
Polluter Pays
Polluted Water
6. What did we deliver?
Quiet Shepherd 2009
Quiet Shepherd 2007
7. What did we deliver?
Ashway Gap 2009
Ashway Gap 2006
8. Benefits valuation
Longdendale case study
1,000,000
Carbon benefits
900,000
Biodiversity benefits
800,000 Recreation benefits
Water treatment OPEX savings
700,000
Value of Benefit (£/year)
600,000
500,000
400,000
300,000
200,000
100,000
0
Year
9. Present value benefits and costs
Longdendale case study
Benefits Present Value
Water quality £269 K
Net present
Non-use Biodiversity £3,202 K
value (NPV)
Recreation £1,439 K
of £7.4M,
Climate regulation £8,328 K but only if
TOTAL £13,238 K the ‘wider’
Costs Present Value benefits are
UU funding £2,570 K taken into
External funding £3,253 K account
TOTAL £5,823 K
NPV £7,414 K
B/C Ratio 2.27
10. Lessons learnt and challenges for
WFD
• There is still a lot to do on land management and understanding the benefits
• Sometimes you have to try things in order to get the benefits you want
• Carbon as a major benefit needs to be recognised and rewarded
• Not all degraded land will deliver benefits to water companies - shared
responsibilities
• Identify your stakeholders and take them with you
– SCaMP projects were developed with input from the RSPB and Natural
England as well as many other local stakeholder groups
– Regulators will also be vital in WFD
• We need time to work out what works
