The challenges facing our water environment in the Solway Tweed

Overview

The water environment is essential to life and is integral to the health and wellbeing of local communities. However it is under pressure from climate change and a legacy of historic demands. We must protect the water environment from further harm and look for opportunities to restore it.

River Basin Planning, and the legislation which underpins it, is the main way that this work will be delivered. It will contribute towards bringing wider benefits, reducing waste and pollution by improving resource efficiency and increasing resilience to climate change.

This report focuses on the challenges to the water environment in the catchments that include the border between Scotland and England and are shown on Map 2. In these catchments SEPA and the Environment Agency work closely together and with our partners to achieve improvements within the framework of our individual regulations.  

You may also be interested in The Significant Water Management Issues report consultation, which covers the whole of Scotland, including all of the Scotland River Basin District and the parts of the Solway Tweed River Basin District which lie in Scotland. The Environment Agency have also launched a consultation seeking views on the challenges the water environments face and the choices needed to improve and protect this vital and precious resource in England : Water Challenges and Choices Consultation 

Responding online will help us collate and analyse the information you provide and we would prefer responses to be submitted through this tool. This consultation is also available on our website. Alternatively, if you are unable to access the online tool, you can respond by email to [email protected] or by writing to SEPA at:

SEPA RBMP Unit, Strathallan House, Castle Business Park, Stirling, FK94TZ

This consultation runs from 19 December 2019 to 19 June 2020.