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Neil Edwards – Responsible Use of Rivers- V10final Responsible Use of Rivers Neil Edwards AquaInform Ltd 29th April 2021 Is there such a thing as responsible use of rivers? Or is any use to be actively discouraged, minimised and ultimately phased out. if ‘no such thing’ Public Water Supply Drainage Recreation Routing and storage Flood management Angling Wastewater Agri/Food Walking margins Conveyor Irrigation In stream (kayaking, swimming, boating …) ‘self-purification’ Industry Commercial Fishing Navigation Hydropower Human transport Process water Trading Cooling 2 Case Study : Upland Interests, Lowland Interests & Perceived Change in Flood Risk 1878-9 3 Aspects of Responsible Use of Rivers Legal Framework Development The current water resource challenge in England Strategic decision making with some major implications Flavour of trade-offs in current water resource planning Scope Discussion Case Study – Upland Interests v Lowland Interests : Flooding Risk ❑ Main presentation – Neil Edwards (AquaInform) ❑ Active chat – Ben Williams (RWE Generation UK) ❑ Chat Themes – Ben will collate as necessary ❑ Discussion / Case Study – free for all + chat 4 Responsible Use of Rivers Responsible Use Rivers • Having obligation, authority • Abstraction • Water control, duty of care • Discharge • Banks & Bed • (to) being answerable to an • Drainage • Margins authority • Navigation • Flood plain • Primary cause, carrying blame • Fishing • Catchment or getting credit for something • In stream recreation • Morally accountable for • Margin Recreation behaviour • Structures/Buildings • Having good judgement and the ability to act correctly • (of a job) Having importance, independence or control • Capable of being trusted ‘Responsible’ involves ‘value’ Affected non-user parties judgment (morality, correctness) beyond mere ‘legal compliance’ Local interests View points on ‘values’ include … Non-local interests User Investors Other users Regulators User’s customers 5 Does Responsible Use of Rivers Need Controlling or Can Users ‘Sort it Out for Themselves’? Water Wars/Range Wars – ‘derogation’ of Need a future-facing system to deliver sufficient ‘existing water rights’ confidence for would be users to commit to invest in new activity/infrastructure & provide a Protection of environment degree of protection (but not fossilise) existing It can’t compete for itself users eg Agent(s) acting for environment (eg Environment against new (excessive) upstream consumptive Agency, Natural England, Rivers Trusts, Wildlife use, or diversion or excess Groups…) against new upstream (excessive) impairment of Social mechanisms tend develop to resolve quality dispute once dependence on rivers evolves eg ie Planning Risk of unavailability of water resource Anticipating problems and avoiding them Intrinsically uncertain subject to natural seasonal and weather related statistical distribution Towards ‘best’ use? Risk of Flood Risk of adverse water quality Intrinsically uncertain subject to natural seasonal and weather related statistical distribution 6 Illustration: Water Resource Management in England – Focus on Abstraction from Rivers 7 England – Water Resource Regulation Development 1930 (Land Drainage Act) 1948 River Boards Act <1878 2000-3000 individual •17 River Boards •47 of 100 identified Catchment ‘local’ Acts of Parliament 1878 River Conservancy Bill •Expanded to 32 Boards created 1945 (national policy on (Local Sanitary Authorities, – advocated integrated •Subsumed Fisheries Boards proper use of water Statutory Water water management at river resources) Undertakers, basin scale Conservancies) 1951 Rivers (Pollution 1963 Water Resources Act 1973 Water Act 1989 Water Act 1995 Environment Act Prevention) Act •27 River Authorities •10 regional Water Authorities •10 Water Companies (PWS) + 1 National •1 Environment Agency integrates 1 •Abstraction licensing (first come first Rivers Authority (Aq Env Regulation) National Rivers Authority with Her •discharge licences served) Majesty’s Inspectorate of Pollution and multiple Waste Authorities 2000-date Water Framework 1999-2013 various changes to 2017 Abstraction Plan replaces Directive River Basin Management water resource management 2013-2017 Reform Initiative to fix Planning planning and abstraction licensing abstraction licensing regime 2019 5 Regional Water •11 River Basin Districts (Eng & Wales) including all new licences to be perceived no longer fit for time limited to 12-24 years purpose Resource Planning Groups •14 Catchment Abstraction Management •Unsustainable abstraction to be remedied (England) introduced Strategy ‘areas’ •Catchment Based Approach (100+) •Each with several (3-10) Catchments Detail in supplementary slides 8 Key Regulatory Theme – Much Simplified Institutional arrangements New integration requirement via Water Framework Directive (2000) 1879-1973 - towards functional integration at river basin scale : Integrated Management Planning at River Basin District scale with Environment Agency as Competent Increasing geographic scale to whole watersheds Authority controlled by a single institution Requires public participation Across sufficient range of interrelated issues and Balance of costs and benefits in setting targets services including PWS 2000-2015 RBDLP Liaison Panels (acting as critical = Integrated river basin management friend to EA) Knowledge Dismantled in 2016 to focus at catchment scale Power/Authority New National and Regional Water Resource Planning initiatives Funding Water Company and Environment Agency dominated Culminating in the Water Authorities of 1973 as public bodies Consideration of non-Public Water Supply interest 1973-date – ‘oscillation on scale’ and more emphasis on ‘economics’ principles : Water Authorities dismantled in privatisation of 1989 (economics principles applied in many settings not just ‘water’) Separation of regulation & ‘activity’ 9 Primary features of an abstraction licence (England) & factors influencing determination Features Protected Area requirements Abstraction position / (area) Biota Protection Abstraction volume flows permitted for purpose(s) Entrainment/impingement/ modification of flows … Instantaneous, hourly, daily, [weekly], Annual User protection Possibly linked to river flow/level Against derogation (of existing licence right) Hands Off Flows (HOF) Reasonable need and efficient use test Hands Off Levels (HOL) For the purpose Reporting requirements Does not consider the ‘worth of the purpose’ Compliance System does not always result in economic efficiency of use of scarce water resource Information Is First Come First Served (FCFS) {Biota Protection Provisions eg behavioural deterrents, fish recovery and return arrangements} But not all non-trivial abstractions require an abstraction licence! [formerly included specification of land on which use takes place] Coastal waters out of scope of abstraction licensing Factors Aquatic environmental protection (Water Resources) Environmental Flow Indices (EFI) 10 Does compliance with a licence constitute responsible use of water? With a reputable licensing system, what can possibly go Agri/food – market develops to favour more water intensive wrong…? products Would be users with higher economic value purposes … change eg appear Technology/techniques evolve to be more water efficient if all available rights have been issued then barrier to their market entry What was reasonable need when granted may no longer be reasonable for the purpose role for markets/trading to supplement or replace existing water resource allocation? Production/demand tails off but leaks/losses/inefficiencies develop Climate May not be cost efficient for user to fix leaks if cost of fixing > Timing, frequency, duration and intensity of rainfall events cost of water eg long period until leak fix project payback changing differently in different areas affecting water supply and storage Views on environment needs change Changing snow occurrence and snow melt timing Higher allocation to environment now thought desirable or become legally required What was once appropriate allocation of water More licencing might have been issued than is now thought resource (and implied use of rivers) may not continue consistent with desired environment protection to be as things change Could imply occurrence of environmental damage (in fully licenced scenario) if nothing is done on licensing/restricting actual use Growth in demand from existing users PWS- Population growth and change in affluence leads to demand outstripping improvements in household water use efficiency 11 ‘Jaws of Death’ Speech 2019 James Bevan (EA Chief Exec, March Assumptions for power/energy based on DECC 2011 (pre net zero/hydrogen …!) 2019) ‘Abstractors should not assume they can Action is needed to avoid demand for water always meet future growth using volumes exceeding supply in the next few decades of water held on their licences but as a result of … historically unused’ Climate change Context indicates because of EA view of environmental pressures & WFD no deterioration Population growth interpretation Environmental ambition Not all required reductions are currently quantified EA National Framework for Water Acknowledges uncertainty in projecting Resources (March 2020) non-PWS future water demand Defines Regional Planning including Creating challenges and opportunity in ‘alignment’ between regions regional planning EA assess there is enough water for each ?What is a ‘valid’
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