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Water Quality Planning and Regulation – How to Protect the Water Environment

Short course

In Bedfordshire ()

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Description

  • Type

    Short course

It is aimed at current and future practitioners, regulators and conservationists who require a detailed understanding of EU water regulations and guidance on how to navigate the UK permitting process. It can be taken as a three day course, or individual days.  Organised into daily themes and delivered by experts in water quality strategy, regulation and planning, and academic researchers working in the fields of water treatment processes, catchment science, and soil erosion and conservation. Day One of the course focuses on the UK and EU regulation that underpins our current and future management of the water environment, waste water and pollution reduction options. Day Two outlines how these regulations have been transposed to the UK, and provides a clear step-by-step account of the permitting and compliance process. Day Three focuses on how the Water Framework Directive is driving the UK to a catchment-based approach and explores current approaches to integrating wider environmental and social-economic issues into sustainable water management. The course is available as three individual days. The course was developed in partnership with the Foundation for Water Research (FWR) and is accredited by the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM)

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Subjects

  • Approach
  • Quality
  • Planning
  • Quality Training
  • Regulations

Course programme

Course structure The course will be delivered primarily via lectures and will be supported by site visits, such as to Cranfield University’s sewage treatment works, pilot plant and test farm.
What you will learn

On successful completion of this short course you will be able to:

  • Explain the current approach to water quality planning and regulation in the UK
  • Describe how EU regulations are translated into UK policy
  • List the key EU Directives, their regulatory functions and timelines for implementation
  • Identify the steps to permitting for water quality in the UK and repercussions for violation of water quality standards
  • Link WFD planning with goals of other EU directives
  • Outline the wider environmental and social-economic issues related to catchment-based water quality management, and approaches
  • Locate all relevant policy and regulatory documents
  • Understand how regulation links to the implementation of research and the need for ongoing dialogue on these issues.

Water Quality Planning and Regulation – How to Protect the Water Environment

Price on request