Cross-sector collaboration
Enabling WSC together
Enabling WSCs requires a group of actors to embrace principles of water stewardship to deliver and care for housing and water cycle assets for the benefit of people and the planet.
Driving positive change
The EWSC project is bringing people from different sectors and disciplines together to explore innovative ways to address today's and future water and housing challenges beyond mere technical solutions.
It is a collaborative endeavour that require us to rethink our current practices, moving away from siloed approaches to collective action.
We are exploring innovative ways of partnership working, creating new joint ventures, governance structures and funding models that generate wider benefits for everyone involved.
Together, we are developing effective stewardship models that can deliver lasting benefits for both communities and the environment.
“Rethinking whole-life water stewardship to accelerate the adoption of integrated water management, supporting communities and the environment to thrive.”
EWSC Project Vision
Striving for innovation
EWSC is seeking to build a better understanding of how deliberate systems change can be mobilised through cross-sectoral collaboration and to provide the right guidance and tools to enable water smart communities.
In doing so, the project is designed to be ‘innovative within itself’ – in its design, governance and processes – and to function as a testing-ground for:
New ways of working collaboratively across disciplines and sectors
Collective knowledge building and sharing to innovate together
Integrative thinking, holding the tension between opposing constraints or points of view, and generating new models
Embracing a reflexive practice, taking in diverse information and adapting ideas in an iterative way.
Developing new knowledge by centring community practices
EWSC Project Partners
We have brought together UK and global water utilities, globally recognised innovators in the built environment and consumer behaviour in water, leading academics and industry bodies.
Lead Delivery Partners
Funded Partners
Support Partners
"This project is urgently needed to bring together the wide range of development partners to identify and break down barriers to integrated water management. It is essential that we come together at a time when water demand is only going to continue through both growth and climate change; to demonstrate a replicable approach for future sustainable development."
George Warren, Integrated Water Management Lead, Anglian Water
