The UKWRA is a trade organisation established to represent the water reuse, waste-water and sustainable drainage sectors, and to promote water re-use as the best and most cost-effective way of helping to reduce future flood and water-shortage risks.

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The Association is the only trade organisation in the UK which advocates addressing both risks at the same time, rather than separately, the aim being to ensure that measures taken to alleviate flood-risks, for example, do not heighten water shortages.

 

Conversely, investment in measures designed primarily to alleviate water shortages, but also help to alleviate flood-risks, need to be encouraged to optimise the UK’s overall management of its rainfall bounty.

 

Flood events are well advertised when they occur, not least due to their human, environmental and economic impact.  The risk of floods is therefore high on the political agenda, resulting in substantial national investment in alleviation measures.

 

As these measures hinge on safely ushering excessive water safely out to sea during extreme weather events, they have a counter-productive element in terms of safeguarding subsequent water-supplies.

 

Less well publicised, is the existing pressure on water-supplies, which the Environment Agency predict will grow under the twin impacts of population growth and changing rainfall patterns.  According to the influential International Panel on Climate Change, the future risk of water shortages pose a greater threat to the UK than future flood risks.

 

Flood events are well advertised when

they occur, not least due to their human, environmental and economic impact.

The risk of floods is therefore high on the political agenda, resulting in substantial national investment in alleviation measures.

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As these measures hinge on safely ushering excessive water safely out to sea during extreme weather events, they have a counter-productive element in terms of safeguarding subsequent water-supplies.

 

Less well publicised, is the existing pressure on water-supplies, which the Environment Agency predict will grow under the twin impacts of population growth and changing rainfall patterns.  According to the influential International Panel on Climate Change, the future risk of water shortages pose a greater threat to the UK than future flood risks.