Assessing a “Catchment Nervous System:” Can Catchment-Wide Monitoring Restore Health to U.K. Rivers?

from AquaPod: Water Monitoring Stories from the Field

In this episode, Tom Stone and Rob Passmore discuss strategies and questions around implementing water quality monitoring programs to satisfy data collection and reporting requirements laid out by the U.K.’s Environment Act and the implications of data collection and collaboration on a national scale.Additional Resources:• How Will U.K. Water Companies Meet Daunting CSO Monitoring Requirements Under the 2021 Environment Act? An Interview with Kayleigh Smith and David Claridge• Real-Time Monitoring Supports Green Recovery Initiative for U.K. Rivers• Additive Catchments• Additive Earth• Combined Sewer Overflow Monitoring• Tom Stone on LinkedIn• Rob Passmore on LinkedInFollow In-Situ on social media for updates on podcasts, success stories, product launches and more.LinkedIn | Facebook | X | Instagram | YouTubeWe want to hear from you! Let us know what you think about the show and any feedback you have for our team.

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The U.K.’s 2021 Environment Act (EA) set ambitious targets for an exhaustive nationwide water quality monitoring program. But putting this legislation into practice raises questions around data reliability and accuracy, reporting transparency and data interpretation, cross-sector collaboration, additional use cases for EA data and how monitoring will translate into remediation efforts. In-Situ’s Tom Stone and Rob Passmore, CEO and Co-Founder of U.K.-based Additive Earth, discuss the U.K.’s way forward as water companies, government bodies, non-profit organizations and other stakeholders navigate the new requirements and begin to strategize about approaches to data collection.