News | BAWAG | Broadland Agricultural Water Abstractors Group

At Today's AGM at Honingham Thorpe Anthony Seaman was elected as the new Chairman and thanks were given to Jamie Lockhart for all his hard work over the years. William Sands was elected as Vice Chairman and Nick Deane remains Treasurer. Interesting presentations were given by Neil Punchard of the Broadland Catchment Partnership and John Patrick from ESWAG on the Deben Water Transfer Project.

Entry added: 07 Mar 2018

The BAWAG Committee has had a number of meetings about the Bure, Ant & Muckfleet catchment and information can now be found under the new tab on the left underneath the Abstraction Reform tab.

Entry added: 07 Mar 2018

The latest BAWAG Newsletter and the Environment Agency Briefing for the Ant, Bure and Thurne are available to download in the Newsletter section on the left.

Entry added: 05 Feb 2018

The latest newsletter and GW maps are available in the tab on the left!

Entry added: 11 Dec 2017

Shaping a new agricultural policy for Irrigators.
A discussion event for NFU members who use water to produce food or who let land with access to water.
Speakers: Jerry Knox (Cranfield)
Steve moncaster (Anglia Water)
Paul Hammett (NFU) Guy Smith (NFU)
Friday 8 December 2017 11am - 2pm at the NFU Regional Office Newmarket. Please book your place with the Regional office on 01638672100 or east.anglia@nfu.org.uk
Please see the flyer in the Newsletter section.

Entry added: 17 Nov 2017

An opportunity to share your views on water efficiency and resilience in field vegetable cropping-----------------
Cranfield University are leading an international project with partners from South Africa, the UEA, Oxford and NIAB-EMR to identify ways to make the UK’s fresh fruit and vegetable system more resilient to water-related risks. They have mapped water scarcity ‘hotspots’ in the UK’s fresh fruit and vegetable supply (including imports and domestic produce), revealing the great advantage of consuming domestically grown produce in terms of reducing our national water scarcity footprint. This will have important implications for supporting access to water for irrigated production in Eastern England. Their research is now seeking to interview a small number of growers involved in potato and field vegetable production in the region to hear their views on how water management could be improved through adoption of new technologies or management practices and how strategies for increasing water efficiency are impacting on the resilience of their own farming business. If you are interested in learning more about the project or would be happy to participate in a short informal interview, please get in touch with Dr Chloe Sutcliffe at c.sutcliffe@cranfield.ac.uk. Any support for this will be much appreciated and will feed into the water strategy being developed for the Anglian region.

Entry added: 17 Oct 2017

Water abstraction lie costs farm business £5,500.See the full article in the Abstraction Reform section on the left.

Entry added: 22 Jul 2017

There is a lot of interesting information available in the latest BAWAG newsletter available to download from the Newsletters section on the left!

Entry added: 26 Mar 2017

Please check out two recent reports done by Cranfield for Anglia Water and WRE (Water Resources East) in the UKIA Information tab on the left. One is on quantifying baseline demand, and the other summary notes from a workshop we held in Feb looking forward and trying to identify drivers of change and impacts of socio econ change on agriculture in anglian region - there's some interesting info in this report.

Entry added: 16 Mar 2017

Please check which water body your abstraction comes out of by going onto the Environment Agency's website and looking for "what's in my backyard" or copy the link below:
http://maps.environment-agency.gov.uk/wiyby/wiybyController?ep=maptopics&lang=_e

Entry added: 09 Dec 2016