H20:Source2Sea European Union Funding
Total project budget: €2,496,348.60
European Regional Development Fund amount: €1,722,480.51
Name of funding programme - Interreg V A France (Channel) England 2014 – 2020
Start and end dates - January 2019 to March 2023
The H20 (H20:Source2Seas) project aims to overcome barriers to integrated water and ecosystem management in lowland areas adapting to climate change by:
- identifying and valuing natural flood and drought management solutions to supplement and overcoming the high costs of hard infrastructure
- restoring ecosystems in lowland areas
- enhancing the evidence base for climate resilient decision making
- addressing the fragmentation of policy across the water system
- demonstrating natural methods of managing flooding and drought and encouraging the wider roll-out of these across the Channel area and beyond.
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- Kent Wildlife Trust (UK)
- Centre Permanent d’Initiatives pour l’Environnement Val d’Authie (France)
- Nausicaà, Centre national de la mer (France)
- Increase implementation of natural flood and drought management strategies/adaptive water management in Kent and the Channel area
- Increase stakeholder engagement in integrated water management decision-making
- Demonstrate the value of natural flood and drought management in the channel area
- Reduce pollution into transnational and coastal waters
- Reduction in total costs of managing water issues and climate change
- Improvement in water quality by reducing nutrients, pollution and sediment
- Reduction of water stress and improvement of fresh water usage
- Tools and guidance to deliver adaptive water management measures tailored to local scenarios
- Reduction of long-term impacts of flooding, droughts and polluted waterways
- Lowland areas are better adapted to climate change
- Improved water quality and ecosystem benefits