A two day conference was hosted by the River Restoration Centre and held at Nottingham University in April. The event presented some of the most cutting edge and innovative ways of achieving river restoration to a 200 strong audience of international environmental experts.

If you could make small changes to your lifestyle to protect and ‘Love Your River’, would you do it? 

That is the question that is being asked of everyone following the launch of a groundbreaking campaign to raise public awareness about the link between the health of our rivers and water use.

 Freshwater scarcity is a growing concern, placing considerable importance on the accuracy of indicators used to characterize and map water scarcity worldwide.

East Anglia and the South East are officially in drought. Other areas continue to be affected by dry weather.

Tips on how to save water:

• Save water

• Conserve water in your business

Droughts explained

As part of water management in the future it is important that we improve our rivers so that they are better able to cope with the changing climate.

In response to Pitt Review Recommendation 27, a report has been published with guidance on greater working with natural processes in flood and coastal erosion risk management.Go to:

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/research/planning/136425.aspx

Let us know your thoughts on the measures identified - are these appropriate?