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Assessing the relationship between agricultural groundwater abstraction and ecological impacts in the Cam and Ely Ouse catchment Francisco Aguilar, Thomas Barden, Benjamin Jeannot, Susan Lynch and Rebecca Perkins Contact email address: [email protected] www.cranfield.ac.uk Context Water Framework Directive (WFD) puts pressure on countries to improve ecological status. Over abstraction may detrimentally affect the ecological status. Environment Agency may impose abstracting conditions to renew all time-limited licences. Rivers and towns in the Cam and Ely Ouse catchment Objectives Understand where abstraction occurs in relation to catchment characteristics. Investigate the ecological vulnerability to abstraction. Assess if abstraction timing affects the ecological status. How we are going to do this Mapping the abstraction points, ecologically significant sites and assessment points. Data analysis of abstraction quantities compared to current licence conditions. Groundwater and water balance modelling. With your help Key questions for us to answer Do time-limited abstractions affect the aims of the WFD? Are only time-limited groundwater abstraction licences responsible? What other factors could be hindering good ecological status? The Team Benjamin Thomas Francisco Susan Rebecca MSc in Environmental Water Management MSc in Integrated Landscape Ecology Water available No water available Over-licensed Over-abstracted Reference: Hess, T.M., Knox, J.W., Kay, M.G., and Weatherhead, E.K. (2010). Managing the Water Footprint of Irrigated Food Production in England and Wales. In Hester, R.E. and Harrison, R.M. (Eds) Issues in Environmental Science and Technology 31: Sustainable Water. pp.85. ISBN: 9781849730198 Figure from Hess et al. (2010) Water resource availability by crop sector. Data from 2008 for England and Wales Potatoes Field Vegetables Soft Fruit 100% 50% 0%
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Assessing the relationship between agricultural groundwater abstraction and ecological impacts in the Cam and Ely Ouse catchment
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Assessing the relationship between
agricultural groundwater abstraction
and ecological impacts in the Cam and
Ely Ouse catchment
Francisco Aguilar, Thomas Barden, Benjamin Jeannot,
Susan Lynch and Rebecca Perkins
Contact email address: [email protected]
www.cranfield.ac.uk
Context
Water Framework Directive (WFD) puts pressure on countries to improve ecological status.
Over abstraction may detrimentally affect the ecological status.
Environment Agency may impose abstracting conditions to renew all time-limited licences.
Rivers and towns in the Cam and Ely Ouse catchment
Objectives
Understand where abstraction occurs in relation to catchment characteristics.
Investigate the ecological vulnerability to abstraction.
Assess if abstraction timing affects the ecological status.
How we are going to do this
Mapping the abstraction points, ecologically significant sites and assessment points.
Data analysis of abstraction quantities compared to current licence conditions.
Groundwater and water balance modelling.
With your help
Key questions for us to answer
Do time-limited abstractions affect the aims of the WFD?
Are only time-limited groundwater abstraction licences responsible?
What other factors could be hindering good ecological status?
The Team
Benjamin
Thomas Francisco Susan Rebecca
MSc in Environmental Water Management
MSc in Integrated Landscape Ecology
Water available
No water available
Over-licensed
Over-abstracted
Reference: Hess, T.M., Knox, J.W., Kay, M.G., and Weatherhead, E.K. (2010). Managing the Water Footprint of Irrigated Food Production in England and Wales. In Hester, R.E. and Harrison, R.M. (Eds) Issues in Environmental Science and Technology 31: Sustainable Water. pp.85. ISBN: 9781849730198
Figure from Hess et al. (2010)
Water resource availability by crop sector. Data from 2008 for England and Wales
Potatoes Field Vegetables Soft Fruit
100%
50%
0%
