SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF FRESHWATER RESOURCES: BRINGING OUR RIVERS BACK TO LIFE
SESSION 1. Background and some key issues
Chair: Penny Lewns CEcol CEnv MCIEEM, CIEEM Vice President of Wales
Washed of all deaths? A perspective on river pollution in Wales
Steve Ormerod, Cardiff University
River fragmentation at local, national and global scales
Josh Jones, Swansea University
SESSION 2. Community and partnership projects
Food web transfer of plastics to an apex riverine predator
Joe D’Souza, Cardiff University
Dr. Kathleen Carpenter (1891-1970) and the Rivers of Wales
Dr. Catherine Duigan, UK Nature Conservation Committee
Dee LIFE River restoration Project
Joel Rees- Jones, Dee LIFE Project Manager
Roots and Water The Severn Rivers Trust approach to application of the principles of SMNR
Lisa Barlow, Severn Rivers Trust
SESSION 3. Water quality
Chair: Max Wade CEcol CEnv FCIEEM, CIEEM President
Treatment wetlands A Nature-based solution for water treatment
Rob Cunningham & Jonah Tosney, Anglian Water & Norfolk Rivers Trust
Slurry: The problem, the regulations and the Solutions Welsh Dee Trust
Peter Powell, Welsh Dee Trust
SESSION 4. Nature-based Solutions
Dr Tristan Hatton-Ellis, Natural Resources Wales
Beavers the ultimate a nature-based solution
Alicia Leow-Dyke & Roisin Campbell-Palmer, Wildlife Trusts