About Drought Showcase Review (Post-Event)
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Newsletter<br />
<strong>Event</strong> debrief: Business impacts of water scarcity<br />
What are the potential impacts of drought on UK<br />
businesses? And what are the priorities when it comes<br />
to sharing information about water scarcity? These<br />
were two themes discussed at a Business Stakeholder<br />
workshop held at UWE, Bristol, on 31.10.17.<br />
Discussions pointed up uncertainty about the<br />
future, and the need for earlier warning systems<br />
(for businesses to understand with greater lead time<br />
when water restrictions would occur; the later the<br />
warnings, the more expensive it becomes). Read more<br />
at: http://aboutdrought.info/event-debrief-20171031/,<br />
and if your business could contribute to this UK-wide<br />
discussion, please contact: Lindsey.McEwen@uwe.ac.uk<br />
Films are available from MaRIUS Live! and are published<br />
at http://aboutdrought.info/marius-managing-therisks-impacts-and-uncertainties-of-drought-andwater-scarcity-live/<br />
and on the MaRIUS website<br />
mariusdroughtproject.org.<br />
If you attended MaRIUS LIVE! But have not yet<br />
given your feedback, please do so here: https://goo.gl/<br />
forms/18gGmNXzllKJWlqh1.<br />
The post event delegate pack, including slide<br />
presentations and other materials, are available here:<br />
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1axroXhYqRjnTdkxt1-<br />
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<strong>Event</strong> debrief: Which communities and why?<br />
<strong>Event</strong> debrief: MaRIUS LIVE!<br />
Trevor Bishop, Director of Strategy and Planning<br />
at OFWAT, described MaRIUS as “one of the most<br />
important bits of research that we’ve seen in drought<br />
and water scarcity” as more than 80 delegates met<br />
to hear presentations setting out the findings of the<br />
project’s research and the outputs available for use.<br />
The project researchers outlined their findings on the<br />
effects of drought on people and the environment, on<br />
government, communities, water quality and resources,<br />
ecology, agriculture, the economy and electricity supply.<br />
How best do we connect a diverse range of publics<br />
and communities with research arising from the NERC<br />
<strong>Drought</strong> and Water Scarcity research programme?<br />
This was a theme discussed at the first Community<br />
Stakeholder workshop held at UWE, Bristol on<br />
27.10.17. This group forms the basis of a ‘community of<br />
practice’, developing and testing evidence that can be<br />
used in engaging communities in drought risk decisionmaking.<br />
Read more at: http://aboutdrought.info/eventdebrief-20171027/,<br />
and if you or your organisation<br />
would like to get involved, please contact: Lindsey.<br />
McEwen@uwe.ac.uk<br />
Click here to sign up<br />
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