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Home News Diary Dates About Membership S&TA Store Issues & Conservation Events Branches Scotland Learning to Fish Becoming a Coach Where to Fish Links Contact Sitemap	Salmon and Trout Association: Blueprint For Water Blueprint Coalition The EU’s Water Framework Directive says we must restore the ecology of Europe’s rivers, lakes and wetlands by 2015, with member states’ plans in place by 2009. This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity. With the Blueprint for Water, a coalition of leading environmental organisations, including the Salmon & Trout Association and representing more than six million people in total, are calling on the Government to act now to give the water of England and Wales a future. How you can help! Write to your MP and encourage him/her to sign the Early Day Motion no. 306 For further information, go to www.blueprintforwater.org.uk/takeaction.html Blueprint for Water Water is our most precious natural resource. It is vital to people’s health and happiness, it is vital for wildlife and vital to our economy. Our water environment is in crisis. Providing enough clean, safe water is becoming ever more difficult and expensive, and climate change is increasing the challenge. Our rivers are under pressure from pollution and abstraction, while most of our wetlands have been lost to drainage. It need not be this way. The Blueprint for Water offers an alternative. An alternative where we are less wasteful of our water; where we keep our rivers flowing, clean and healthy and our wetlands wet. Where the water we use is priced fairly and those who pollute it are made to pay; where our waste is properly treated and not washed straight into waterways. The Government has made a commitment to meet the objectives of the Water Framework Directive, which says the ecology of our waters must be restored to health by 2015. This Blueprint sets out the steps needed to meet this target. 10 steps to sustainable water by 2015 Waste Less water Reduce water consumption by at least 20%, through more efficient use in homes, buildings and businesses Keep our rivers flowing and wetlands wet Amend or revoke those abstraction licences that damage rivers, lakes and wetlands Price water fairly Make household water bills reflect the amount of water people use Make polluters pay Ensure that those who damage the water environment bear the costs through more effective law enforcement and tougher penalties Stop pollutants contaminating our water Introduce targeted regulations to reduce harmful pollutants in water Keep sewage out of homes and rivers and off beaches Upgrade the sewage system to reduce discharges of sewage into urban environments and ecologically sensitive areas Support water-friendly farming Help farmers to prevent pollution and restore degraded soils, rivers and wetlands through advice, training and payments Clean up drainage from roads and buildings Construct modern drainage systems that prevent pollution entering rivers from buildings and roads Restore rivers from source to sea Regenerate rivers, lakes and wetlands in partnership with local communities Retain water on floodplains and wetlands Restore large areas of wetland and floodplain to create vital wildlife habitats, improve water quality and quantity, and reduce urban flooding For full Blueprint for Water, click here…
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