Each project is bespoke to its catchment’s issues, needs and potential. All of them are evidence-based, with monitoring underway to help us understand how we can work together for the best impact for our rivers and the communities who use and enjoy them.
We are working with a range of partners in each location, using the best skills and expertise for each part of the project. See a list of our major projects and lead partners below. We recognise many more partners will contribute through the 10-year life of these projects.
Chew Valley Reconnected
Through the Chew Valley Reconnected Partnership Project, we aim to improve water quality in the upper Chew catchment and boost nature recovery across the catchment.
Somer Valley Rediscovered
Through the Somer Valley Rediscovered Partnership Project, we are helping to improve and protect the Cam and Wellow Brook, particularly concentrating on improving water quality, promoting sustainable land management and boosting nature recovery.
Resilient Avon
Focussing on the Upper Hampshire Avon catchments, this project builds on our previous investigations and partnership work to reduce the impacts of our abstractions on the Special Area of Conservation and improve the catchment’s resilience to climate change.
Stour Chalk Streams and Clay Vales Improvements
This project aims to improve the Stour catchment through working with landowners to improve water quality in the ‘clay vales’, which are the headwater catchments of the Stour, while also reducing nutrient and sediment inputs into the river and improving soil health through sustainable land management.
Frome Headwaters Flagship Chalk Stream Restoration
We started this project following the 2021 National Chalk Stream Restoration Strategy’s recommendation that water companies should form a national network of ‘flagship’ restoration projects to demonstrate that it is possible to restore chalk streams.