EWSC Project Reports

This report sets out a rationale and evidence to the Independent Water Commission (IWC) on the need for a more concerted approach to both harvesting and using rainwater beneficially where it falls, and likewise infiltrating, storing and slowing it to reduce flood risk and pollution from overloaded combined sewer networks and contaminated runoff from highways and other hard surfaces.

This approach should be set within a National Rainwater Management Strategy which flips our outdated mentality towards managing rain around properties, from considering it a waste product and liability to be removed quickly to a resource and asset to be valued. This will need to be underpinned by regulatory and policy change.

By a bold commitment to the future resilience and health of water bodies and communities by government. And by an appreciation of how critical water resilience – both to flood and drought – is to prospects for lasting growth and prosperity.