Mobilising Communities for Adaptation
Living with Water and the University of Sheffield have been working with communities to really try to understand current feelings about flooding and learn about their desires to use raintanks to contribute to reducing local flood risk.
Background
Living with Water is a flagship partnership already gaining external recognition for its innovative partnership working.
There are four principal leads in the “Living with Water” Partnership comprising representatives from:
- Hull City Council,
- East Riding of Yorkshire Council
- Environment Agency and
- Yorkshire Water
This body has agreed to work collaboratively to deliver the Board’s vision:
“…to create a thriving community in Hull and Haltemprice through working together on flood risk management to become an international exemplar for living in harmony with water”.
Working with external partners from the University of Sheffield, Living with Water has developed a strong relationship to deliver the ‘Mobilising Communities for Adaptation’ project.
The team has worked with two communities in Hull and the East Riding, Derringham and Bilton to really try and understand residents’ current feelings about flooding and specifically learn about their desires to embrace use raintanks that allow them to contribute to reducing local flood risk.
Messages from the project include:
- Mobilising communities is a form of community engagement that takes time, it requires two-way engagement – listening as well as talking – and close and coordinated partnership working
- Subject to the intensity of uptake and the type of rain tank, community and household rainwater storage has the potential to make a significant contribution to reducing flood risk
- Mobilisation initiatives also have the potential to enable fuller community understanding of flood risk mitigation in Hull.
To complement the MoCA findings, we have invited speakers from two other projects concerned about community involvement in water management:
Test Sites Calder: Anthropologist Megan Clinch (Queen Mary University) and Artist Ruth Levene have collaborated in a study of communities’ experiences of flood risk and flood resilience in the Calder Valley.
CAMELLIA (Community Water Management for a Liveable London). The growing population of London and planned housing require water to be supplied and flooding to be reduced as far as possible. However, the region is vulnerable to water shortages and floods. CAMELLIA enables a range of organisations and people to contribute to, and apply systems-thinking and co-designed tools to create a paradigm shift in integrated water management and governance. The goal is for real stakeholder engagement in water management decisions and to provide a template, not just for London’s growth, but for other cities, regions and communities both nationally and globally.
Why attend
To showcase the outcomes of the project alongside work linking community engagement with sustainable drainage elsewhere in the UK
Programme
09:45 Registration & networking
10:30 Welcome & Introductions
Lee Pitcher,
Head of Resilience – Yorkshire Water & General Manager – Living with Water
10:35 Setting the scene
Living with Water: An interactive presentation bringing to life the award-winning
Living with Water project’s challenges, early successes and what comes next
Lee Pitcher
11:05 Partnership working to Mobilise Communities for Adaptation
- How the project was shaped and who was involved
- What were the key outputs to be achieved
Liz Sharp, Senior Lecturer, Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield
& Martin Armour, Portfolio Manager at Yorkshire Water
11:25 The Learning from MoCA
- What the science tells us about rain water harvesting
Ruth Quinn, Research Associate, University of Sheffield
& Virginia Stovin, Professor of Green Infrastructure for Stormwater Management,
University of Sheffield
12:05 Panel of Experts Q&A
Chaired by Lee Pitcher
12:20 Lunch
13:20 The Learning from MoCA
A consolidation of the community research, what it is telling us and how it informs future thinking
Christine Sefton
13:50 Panel Discussion
Chaired by L Pitcher
14:15 Test Sites; Calder
Ruth Levene, Artist and Megan Clinch
14:35 Community co-design for water resilience
Sarah Bell, Professor of Environmental Engineering, University College London
14:50 Q & A
Chaired by L Pitcher
15:00 Closing Remarks
Reflections
Lee Pitcher
Who should attend
- Policy makers concerned with blue-green infrastructure– OFWAT, CCW, Defra, CCC
- Local authority drainage engineers and those working on regeneration in areas with drainage-related investment
- Water company drainage and waste water management specialists
When
Tuesday 14th January 2019
10:30 - 15:00 (registration from 09:45)
Where
CIRIA offices
Griffin Court
15 Long Lane
EC1A 9PN
Fees
FREE for all to attend
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