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Institute of Water Scottish Area Autumn Seminar - Back to the Future 2 This year’s theme is Back to the Future 2, we will look briefly back at how things have changed over the last 25 years in the Water Industry before looking ahead and working on some of the challenges that we might face over the next 25 years. This will be done under various sub-headings... read more 18th October 2017	AWS Global Water Stewardship Forum 2017 - Edinburgh, 31 Oct-1 Nov The Alliance for Water Stewardship, with Scottish Government support, will host the Global Water Stewardship Forum in Edinburgh (31 Oct - 1 Nov 2017). This event provides a platform for knowledge sharing on water stewardship by practitioners, stakeholders, and those new to the field. Details... read more 9th October 2017
Policy update: Drinking Water Quality Regulator DWQR regulates Scottish Water and supervises the regulation of private water supplies (PWS) by local authorities. It is the latter supplies which create many of the policy challenges we currently face. Questions such as “How can we persuade people of the health risk their private supply presents?”... read more 10th August 2017	Hydro Nation Scholarship Programme 2018 Applications are now welcome for project proposals based on our topic themes for 2018. Full details of the programme can be found on the Hydro Nation Scholars website. The Hydro Nation Scholarship Programme is an open competition for PhD scholars to undertake approved projects hosted within... read more 13th July 2017
Valuing Your Soils workshop Girvan 17th July The fifth ‘Valuing Your Soils’ awareness raising workshop for farmers is taking place at Girvan Mains farm (KA26 9JD) on 17th July. There will be machinery demos, a tour of an anaerobic digestion plant and open soil pits. Further information will be available shortly. 5th July 2017	Demonstration Test Catchment national consortium The conference programme has been finalised. Bookings are now being taken for this event. Please note that the deadline for new bookings is 30th June 2017. Since being commissioned in December 2009, the DTC research programme has developed, tested and promoted cost-effective management... read more 7th June 2017
Valuing your soils: Cultivating resilient farming systems The fourth ‘Valuing Your Soils’ awareness raising workshop for farmers is taking place at Leitfie farms (near Blairgowrie) on 16th March. There will be machinery demos and open soil pits. For more details on the event please see the SRUC project page. 7th March 2017	Impact Evaluator vacancy at University of Leeds: Project iCASP - Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme More information on this post is available from the University of Leeds website. 15th February 2017
Valuing your soils: benefits of precision agriculture workshop, 23rd February The third ‘Valuing Your Soils’ awareness raising workshop for farmers is taking place at West Mains of Kinblethmont (near Arbroath) on 23rd Feb. There will be a drone flight and other SoilEssentials Ltd technology demonstrations. For more details on the event please see the SRUC project page. 9th February 2017	Valuing Your Soils: Improving Farm Efficiency workshop - 14th February, Brechin This workshop is supported by CREW at the request of SEPA. The programme includes talks from Neil MacLeod from Southesk Farms and experts from SRUC and SEPA on improving farm efficiency, the challenges associated with cultivating heavier ground and practical guidance, a farm tour with open... read more 20th January 2017
Impact Evaluator vacancy at University of Leeds: Project iCASP - Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme More information on this post is available here. 16th December 2016	Pharmaceuticals in the Water Environment, 4-7th Sept. 2017 This conference focuses on the comprehensive issue of occurrence of pharmaceuticals in the water environment. This is done by considering the entire pathway of pharmaceuticals from their source (human use of medicins, etc.) as sewage water to waste water treatment plants releasing their effluent to... read more 14th October 2016