OUR PROWATER project stands for protecting and restoring raw water sources through actions at the landscape scale.
Since 2017, we have been working as partners in the cross-border scheme to build resilience to climate change. The project has done this by restoring the natural landscape’s ability to absorb and hold on to water after rainfall, then slowly releasing it into our river systems throughout the year.
Our work has demonstrated how Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) measures, which are nature-based solutions designed specifically to build resilience to climate change, can be used.
Plus, we have developed a mechanism to unlock funding for these schemes and created tools that can be used to help design them.
Tree planting at one of our sites with Friends of Pebblebed Heaths. Photo credit: Kim Strawbridge
For more information on the project and to see the outputs, visit wrt.org.uk/project/prowater.
As part of this project in the South West, our EbA examples include tree planting, wetland creation and Natural Flood Management style water retentions features.
For more information on what we delivered see our case study at pro-water.eu/west-east-devon-uk.
The PROWATER project has received funding from the Interreg 2 Seas programme 2014-2020 co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund.
Interreg 2 Seas is a European territorial cooperation programme for the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands and Belgium (Flanders).
