The Water for Tomorrow (WfT) programme involved a partnership of 5 organisations from across France and England, who aimed to improve the management of water resources to increase environmental, economic and societal resilience to water scarcity and drought.
The project developed and tested innovative water management approaches in five pilot areas:
- Broadland Rivers catchment
- Territoire du Syndicat Mixte de l’Aulne (Sud Finistère)
- Cam and Ely Ouse catchment
- Territoire de la communauté d’agglomération de Béthune-Bruay Artois-Lys Romane (CABBALR)
- East Suffolk catchment
Working across all concerned sectors, WfT supports the development and implementation of new and innovative operational management tools and processes that enable more responsive short-term management, and better long-term planning and investment, at the local scale.
This €4million project was funded through the EU INTERREG VA France (Channel) England Programme which committed €2.8million through the European Development Fund. The project ran until March 2023 and delivered the following outcomes:
- Innovative environmental data collection and management systems to improve the management of water resources
- Multi-sector collaboration that supports the future uptake and roll out of these systems, enabling a transformation in the management of water resources across the area
Pilot areas
Broadland
Brittany
Cam & Ely Ouse
Hauts-de-france
East Suffolk
WRE Outputs
Water Resources East has specifically been working to establish a method for catchment-scale modelling of water resource challenges and future options, under long-term and uncertain future scenarios.
Guidance pack document (English version, French version) covering all principal partners projects within Water for Tomorrow and including WRE sections on:
- Water resources modelling
- Decision support modelling
- The catchment management system
Developing catchment-scale options
- Options development – final technical report (Atkins, 2022)
- Options development database (Atkins, 2022)
Water resource modelling
- Hydrological and water resource modelling report (HR Wallingford, 2023)
- Kestrel hydrological model factsheets
- Pywr water resources allocation models of the Waveney, Yare, Wensum and Bure catchments within the Broadland River management catchment (please contact us if you are interested in these)
Environmental and carbon considerations
Decision support modelling
Catchment management system
Other resources are available through the Water for Tomorrow Resources page.
If you have any questions, please contact Julia Beeden on contact@wre.org.uk.
Partner and project outputs
Across the whole programme the different partner projects and outputs include:
- The Water for Tomorrow guidance pack document which provides summaries of all WfT projects
- Supporting agricultural engagement and gathering data on farm responses to drought
- Groundwater availability maps for East Suffolk
- Rainfall simulation and soil monitoring
- Participatory model (exploring a whole-system approach)
- Map of drinking water withdrawals and transfers in the CABBALR region
- Real-time aquifer (groundwater borehole) monitoring network
- Climate change modelling and statistical analysis
- Hydro-economic modelling of public water supply
- Hydrological and water resource modelling for the Broadland Rivers Catchment
- Decision support modelling for the
- Broadland Rivers Catchment
The outputs from other partners are available on the Water for Tomorrow website.