Rivers Trust Director speaks to Lords as part of EU Freshwater Inquiry

• Parliament TV: Freshwater Policy
• Inquiry: Freshwater Policy
• EU Sub-Committee D - Agriculture, Fisheries and Environment

Witness

At 11am, Wednesday 1 February, Committee Room 3A, Palace of Westminster:

• Dr Dylan Bright, Trust Director, Westcountry Rivers Trust

The Westcountry Rivers Trust is an environmental charity working to preserve, protect, develop and improve the UK’s freshwater system in the West Country. The Committee are particularly interested in the Trust’s experiences of applying the ecosystem services concept to water management (by paying farmers for clean water), an approach which may become more widespread as implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) continues.

The Committee will question Dr Bright on issues such as:

• his view on the UK’s current arrangements for water management and the impact of the WFD on water management and river water quality so far
• whether the payment for ecosystem service approach could be expanded beyond farming and integrated with other benefits such as carbon capture
• what governments can do to help with these changes and what role the EU can play in making it happen

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