NCE Floods & Water Management Bill Round Table
NCE has teamed up with Hydro International to deliver a round table debate on the Floods & Water Management Bill. Watch the highlights here.
Round Table: news
Fears over Floods Bill's Suds loophole
Engineers warned this week that new national standards for sustainable drainage systems would be used by developers to avoid installing them in projects.
Round Table debate: Introduction
On 10 September at the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM), NCE and Hydro International brought together a panel of key experts for a Round Table debate on the Floods & Water Management Bill.
Watch: NCE/Hydro flooding roundtable
Round Table: the debate reviewed
NCE/Hydro round table: Flood of ideas
Last week NCE and Hydro International organised a round table discussion in London to influence forthcoming flooding legislation. Bernadette Redfern reports.
Round Table panel members
Chair: Alastair Moseley, CIWEM and WSP Group
Alastair Moseley is the president of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM).
Professor Richard Ashley, Sheffield University
Richard Ashley is Professor of Urban Water at Sheffield University and MD of the Pennine Water Group.
David Rooke, Environment Agency
David Rooke is the Environment Agency’s head of strategy and engagement within the Flood and Coastal Risk Management Directorate.
Vicky Dawe, Defra
Vicky Dawe is the head of the Non-Agricultural Diffuse Water Pollution Team at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
Jeremy Jones, JRJ Consulting
Jeremy Jones is an independent consulting engineer and advisor to regulators, water companies and industry.
Alex Stephenson, Hydro International
Alex Stephenson is director of Hydro International’s Stormwater Division.
Terry Fuller, CIWEM
Terry Fuller is chair of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) River and Coastal Group.
Gordon Hunt, Oxfordshire County Council
Gordon Hunt is manager of the Drainage Team at Oxfordshire County Council which undertakes the county’s capital drainage programme.
Floods Bill news
Venables: Defra lacking in expert flooding engineers
Former ICE president Jean Venables has hit out at the government for employing too few engineers with flooding expertise.
Government pledges Energy, Floods and High Speed action
In today’s Queen’s Speech, the Government included both an Energy Bill to fund Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and a Floods and Water Management Bill to allocate responsibility for floods in addition to action on a high speed rail link between London and Scotland, although opposition MPs claim the legislative timetable is unrealistic.
Tories plan emergency floods bill
A Conservative government would support an emergency floods bill if the Floods and Water Management Bill does not reach Parliament by the general election, shadow minister for the environment, food and rural affairs Anne McIntosh MP said yesterday.
