Community Water Management for a Liveable London (CAMELLIA)
Lead Research Organisation:
Imperial College London
Department Name: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Abstract
London and the South-East is the economic 'powerhouse' of England contributing 40% of GDP. Currently there is a shortage of housing, particularly affordable homes, and 50,000 new homes per year are planned for London to 2036. The growing population of London and its planned housing require water to be supplied and flooding to be reduced as far as possible. However, the region is vulnerable to water shortages (droughts) and floods. In the spring of 2012 London was facing potentially its worst drought, with concerns whether Affinity Water could provide sufficient water for some Olympic events. By contrast, the prolonged rainfall that then fell over the summer caused localised flooding and the Thames barrier being closed twice. This swing, over half a year, from extreme shortage of water to excess highlights the major challenge London faces to manage the water environment.
This challenge is likely to worsen with climate change alongside the expected economic growth of London and associated increase in population. It also shows how droughts and flooding are two ends of a hydrological spectrum, whose political oversight, i.e. governance, needs to be managed was a whole. It is this need for integrated, collaborative and appropriate management that lies at the heart of CAMELLIA.
Focusing on London, CAMELLIA will bring together environmental, engineering, urban planning and socio-economic experts with governmental and planning authorities, industry, developers and citizens to provide solutions that will enable required housing growth in London whilst sustainably managing water and environment in the city.
CAMELLIA will be led by Imperial College London, working in collaboration with researchers at University College London, the University of Oxford, and the British Geological Survey. The programme is supported by communities, policymakers and industry including: local and national government, environmental regulators, water companies, housing associations and developers, environmental charities and trusts. Ultimately, the programme aims to transform collaborative water management to support the provision of lower cost and better performing water infrastructure in the context of significant housing development, whilst improving people's local environments and their quality of life.
The relationships between the natural environment and urban water infrastructure are highly complex, comprised of ecological, hydrological, economic, technical, political and social elements. It is vital that policy and management are informed by the latest scientific understanding of hydrological and ecological systems. However, for this knowledge to make a change and have an impact, it needs to be positioned within wider socio-technical and economic systems. CAMELLIA will provide a systems framework to translate Natural Environmental Research Council-funded science into decision-making. Enabling a range of organisations and people to contribute to, and apply systems-thinking and co-designed tools to create a paradigm shift in integrated water management and governance underpins CAMELLIA. This will achieve the goal of real stakeholder engagement in water management decisions and provide a template, not just for London's growth, but for other cities, regions and communities both nationally and globally.
The proposed work programme consists of four work packages which address 4 key questions, namely: How to understand the system?; How to model the integrated system?; How to analyse that system?; How to apply this systems approach to create impact? To help focus these questions, four London based case studies are being used, each reflecting a key issue: Southwark (urban renewal); Thamesmead (housing development); Mogden (water infrastructure regeneration); Enfield (Flood risk and water quality). From these, an integrated systems model will be applied to the entire city in order to help guide policy, planning and water management decisions.
This challenge is likely to worsen with climate change alongside the expected economic growth of London and associated increase in population. It also shows how droughts and flooding are two ends of a hydrological spectrum, whose political oversight, i.e. governance, needs to be managed was a whole. It is this need for integrated, collaborative and appropriate management that lies at the heart of CAMELLIA.
Focusing on London, CAMELLIA will bring together environmental, engineering, urban planning and socio-economic experts with governmental and planning authorities, industry, developers and citizens to provide solutions that will enable required housing growth in London whilst sustainably managing water and environment in the city.
CAMELLIA will be led by Imperial College London, working in collaboration with researchers at University College London, the University of Oxford, and the British Geological Survey. The programme is supported by communities, policymakers and industry including: local and national government, environmental regulators, water companies, housing associations and developers, environmental charities and trusts. Ultimately, the programme aims to transform collaborative water management to support the provision of lower cost and better performing water infrastructure in the context of significant housing development, whilst improving people's local environments and their quality of life.
The relationships between the natural environment and urban water infrastructure are highly complex, comprised of ecological, hydrological, economic, technical, political and social elements. It is vital that policy and management are informed by the latest scientific understanding of hydrological and ecological systems. However, for this knowledge to make a change and have an impact, it needs to be positioned within wider socio-technical and economic systems. CAMELLIA will provide a systems framework to translate Natural Environmental Research Council-funded science into decision-making. Enabling a range of organisations and people to contribute to, and apply systems-thinking and co-designed tools to create a paradigm shift in integrated water management and governance underpins CAMELLIA. This will achieve the goal of real stakeholder engagement in water management decisions and provide a template, not just for London's growth, but for other cities, regions and communities both nationally and globally.
The proposed work programme consists of four work packages which address 4 key questions, namely: How to understand the system?; How to model the integrated system?; How to analyse that system?; How to apply this systems approach to create impact? To help focus these questions, four London based case studies are being used, each reflecting a key issue: Southwark (urban renewal); Thamesmead (housing development); Mogden (water infrastructure regeneration); Enfield (Flood risk and water quality). From these, an integrated systems model will be applied to the entire city in order to help guide policy, planning and water management decisions.
Planned Impact
Impact lies at the heart of CAMELLIA. This is why we are working with 20 stakeholders (CAMELLIA partners), which include Defra, the Environment Agency (EA), Thames Water, Affinity Water, Transport for London, Homebuilders Federation, GLA, London Boroughs, and community groups (Thames 21; Rivers Trusts) in order to deliver significant, quantifiable impact. These organisations have agreed to work with us, as the expected growth and associated housing development with London and the Thames, can only be delivered affordably, in a sustainable manner, and without significant environmental degradation, if a truly Catchment-Based Approach (CaBA) to water management is adopted.
To deliver new housing that contributes to documented visions of a more "Liveable" London (e.g. the Mayor of London's September 2017 London Housing Strategy), CAMELLIA will provide stakeholders usable information, models and tools, and work with them to use and continue to apply them collectively, thus greatly advancing the CaBA. The impacts we expect CAMELLIA to deliver are:
(1) The tools developed within CAMELLIA to quantify the effects of infiltration management on flood risk, infrastructure performance, and water resources will, for the first time, enable the assessment of 'upstream' intervention on 'downstream' impact. This will provide the evidence that could transform sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) uptake, for example, potentially based on the collective adoption of a SuDS offsetting scheme. This would support sustainable development within the GLA's Opportunity Areas, and could unlock areas currently considered unsuitable for development because of a lack of integrated assessment.
(2) The programme will build community capacity and expertise to engage with a range of organisational and institutional stakeholders based on open and equitable access to scientific knowledge. Engagement of London's citizens in the science of water management and design of infrastructure and policy options will improve their effectiveness, compared to conventional approaches based on public education, behaviour change and outreach.
(3) By applying systems thinking, the common objectives for a truly wide range of stakeholders will be included in a structured decision process. CAMELLIA will deliver an innovative Integrated Systems Analysis, which explicitly focuses on the interactions between the physical, social, management and decision-making system that is created from multiple stakeholder perspectives and with genuine local relevance. It will allow the analysis of differences in short- and long-term effects and avoid unintended consequences.
(4) CAMELLIA will transform access to data, knowledge, models, and tools to support urban water management and decision-making. It will deliver the Community Water Management Portal, a publicly-available web-based platform that will enable stakeholders to: (i) easily find out what data and tools are available and what they can be used for; (ii) access knowledge supporting community understanding; (iii) view and interpret multi-dimensional datasets describing London's urban water system, from anywhere; (iv) use a range of hydrological models and system dynamic models, and interpret their results.
Ten Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) have been specified. These provide measures of the main outcomes from the programme. They enable CAMELLIA's impact with respect to user engagement and innovation, along with the benefit for society, business, the environment and policy to be quantified and costed against the consortium's baseline data.
Of the many examples cited by our partners, Peabody believe that "we can build a good case for investment around clear benefits that demonstrate value for money" and Thames Water state that "we are confident that we can collectively deliver better outcomes at lower cost". Given their annual investment in assets of £1bn, this represents huge potential savings and a long-lasting legacy.
To deliver new housing that contributes to documented visions of a more "Liveable" London (e.g. the Mayor of London's September 2017 London Housing Strategy), CAMELLIA will provide stakeholders usable information, models and tools, and work with them to use and continue to apply them collectively, thus greatly advancing the CaBA. The impacts we expect CAMELLIA to deliver are:
(1) The tools developed within CAMELLIA to quantify the effects of infiltration management on flood risk, infrastructure performance, and water resources will, for the first time, enable the assessment of 'upstream' intervention on 'downstream' impact. This will provide the evidence that could transform sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) uptake, for example, potentially based on the collective adoption of a SuDS offsetting scheme. This would support sustainable development within the GLA's Opportunity Areas, and could unlock areas currently considered unsuitable for development because of a lack of integrated assessment.
(2) The programme will build community capacity and expertise to engage with a range of organisational and institutional stakeholders based on open and equitable access to scientific knowledge. Engagement of London's citizens in the science of water management and design of infrastructure and policy options will improve their effectiveness, compared to conventional approaches based on public education, behaviour change and outreach.
(3) By applying systems thinking, the common objectives for a truly wide range of stakeholders will be included in a structured decision process. CAMELLIA will deliver an innovative Integrated Systems Analysis, which explicitly focuses on the interactions between the physical, social, management and decision-making system that is created from multiple stakeholder perspectives and with genuine local relevance. It will allow the analysis of differences in short- and long-term effects and avoid unintended consequences.
(4) CAMELLIA will transform access to data, knowledge, models, and tools to support urban water management and decision-making. It will deliver the Community Water Management Portal, a publicly-available web-based platform that will enable stakeholders to: (i) easily find out what data and tools are available and what they can be used for; (ii) access knowledge supporting community understanding; (iii) view and interpret multi-dimensional datasets describing London's urban water system, from anywhere; (iv) use a range of hydrological models and system dynamic models, and interpret their results.
Ten Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) have been specified. These provide measures of the main outcomes from the programme. They enable CAMELLIA's impact with respect to user engagement and innovation, along with the benefit for society, business, the environment and policy to be quantified and costed against the consortium's baseline data.
Of the many examples cited by our partners, Peabody believe that "we can build a good case for investment around clear benefits that demonstrate value for money" and Thames Water state that "we are confident that we can collectively deliver better outcomes at lower cost". Given their annual investment in assets of £1bn, this represents huge potential savings and a long-lasting legacy.
Organisations
- Imperial College London (Lead Research Organisation)
- Thames Water Utilities Limited (Collaboration)
- Stantec (Collaboration)
- Friends of the River Crane Environment (Collaboration)
- Anglian Water Services (Collaboration)
- SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL (Collaboration)
- Greater London Authority (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Thames 21 (Collaboration)
- MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- Royal Bank of Canada (Collaboration)
- Environment Agency (Collaboration)
- PEABODY TRUST (Collaboration)
- The Home Builders Federation (Project Partner)
- Affinity Water (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Southwark Council (Project Partner)
- Peabody (Project Partner)
- Enfield Council (Project Partner)
- Leathermarket JMB (Project Partner)
- Thames Water (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Transport for London (Project Partner)
- Ofwat (Project Partner)
- The Rivers Trust (Project Partner)
- Thames21 (Project Partner)
- Stantec Consulting Inc (Project Partner)
- Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Project Partner)
Publications
Zimmermann N
(2021)
Moving online: reflections from conducting system dynamics workshops in virtual settings.
in System dynamics review
Zhang Z
(2023)
Assessing the co-benefits of urban greening coupled with rainwater harvesting management under current and future climates across USA cities
in Environmental Research Letters
Zhang Z
(2021)
Planning London's green spaces in an integrated water management approach to enhance future resilience in urban stormwater control
in Journal of Hydrology
Zhang Z
(2022)
A mechanistic assessment of urban heat island intensities and drivers across climates
in Urban Climate
Salvia G
(2022)
Understanding Urban Green Space Usage through Systems Thinking: A Case Study in Thamesmead, London
in Sustainability
Salvia G
(2021)
The wicked problem of waste management: An attention-based analysis of stakeholder behaviours.
in Journal of cleaner production
Rowan T
(2023)
On the development of opensource 3D printed impeller flowmeters for open channels
in Flow Measurement and Instrumentation
Rowan T
(2022)
On the Development of Opensource 3d Printed Impeller Flowmeters for Open Channels
in SSRN Electronic Journal
Puchol-Salort P.
(2020)
Natural Capital Impact Assessment for New Urban Developments
Puchol-Salort P
(2021)
Urban Water Neutrality at City Scale: CityPlan Evaluation and Design Module
Puchol-Salort P
(2021)
An urban planning sustainability framework: Systems approach to blue green urban design
in Sustainable Cities and Society
Puchol-Salort P
(2022)
Water neutrality framework for systemic design of new urban developments.
in Water research
Pluchinotta I
(2022)
The importance of eliciting stakeholders' system boundary perceptions for problem structuring and decision-making
in European Journal of Operational Research
Pluchinotta I
(2024)
Dealing with soft variables and data scarcity: lessons learnt from quantification in a participatory system dynamics modelling process
in System Dynamics Review
Peters, H
(2021)
Performing Digital Water Publics: A Computational Approach
Peters H
(2021)
Exploring Digital Water Publics
Peters H
(2021)
The public and its assets: Performing appraisal and advocacy for blue and green infrastructure in London, England
in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
Peleg N
(2022)
Mapping storm spatial profiles for flood impact assessments
in Advances in Water Resources
Paschalis A
(2022)
On the Uncertainty Induced by Pedotransfer Functions in Terrestrial Biosphere Modeling
in Water Resources Research
Paschalis A
(2021)
Urban Forests as Main Regulator of the Evaporative Cooling Effect in Cities
in AGU Advances
Paschalis A
(2020)
Rainfall manipulation experiments as simulated by terrestrial biosphere models: Where do we stand?
in Global change biology
Paschalis A
(2023)
When do plant hydraulics matter in terrestrial biosphere modelling?
in Global Change Biology
Parolari A
(2021)
Precipitation variability can bias estimates of ecological controls on ecosystem productivity response to precipitation change
in Ecohydrology
O'Keeffe J
(2022)
Evaluating natural capital performance of urban development through system dynamics: A case study from London.
in The Science of the total environment
Muhandes S
(2023)
A method for adjusting design storm peakedness to reduce bias in hydraulic simulations
in Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Water Management
Muhandes S
(2022)
The Value of Aggregated City Scale Models to Rapidly Assess SuDS in Combined Sewer Systems
in Frontiers in Water
Muftah H
(2021)
Towards open-source LOD2 modelling using convolutional neural networks
in Modeling Earth Systems and Environment
Moustakis Y
(2021)
Seasonality, Intensity, and Duration of Rainfall Extremes Change in a Warmer Climate
in Earth's Future
Moustakis Y
(2020)
Atmospheric convection, dynamics and topography shape the scaling pattern of hourly rainfall extremes with temperature globally
in Communications Earth & Environment
Moustakis Y
(2022)
Insensitivity of Ecosystem Productivity to Predicted Changes in Fine-Scale Rainfall Variability
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
Moore G
(2023)
Handbook of Transdisciplinarity: Global Perspectives
Mijic A
(2023)
A meta-model of socio-hydrological phenomena for sustainable water management
in Nature Sustainability
Meili N
(2022)
Diurnal and seasonal patterns of global urban dry islands
in Environmental Research Letters
Liu L
(2022)
Hierarchical systems integration for coordinated urban-rural water quality management at a catchment scale.
in The Science of the total environment
Liu L
(2023)
Water quality management at a critical checkpoint by coordinated multi-catchment urban-rural load allocation.
in Journal of environmental management
Liu L
(2023)
Optimisation of urban-rural nature-based solutions for integrated catchment water management.
in Journal of environmental management
Huang W
(2023)
Economic valuation of temperature-related mortality attributed to urban heat islands in European cities
in Nature Communications
Fatichi S
(2019)
A Mechanistic Model of Microbially Mediated Soil Biogeochemical Processes: A Reality Check
in Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Dobson B
(2021)
Integrated Modelling to Support Analysis of COVID-19 Impacts on London's Water System and In-river Water Quality
in Frontiers in Water
Dobson B
(2022)
A Reduced Complexity Model With Graph Partitioning for Rapid Hydraulic Assessment of Sewer Networks
in Water Resources Research
Dobson B
(2022)
Predicting catchment suitability for biodiversity at national scales
in Water Research
Dobson B
(2020)
Protecting rivers by integrating supply-wastewater infrastructure planning and coordinating operational decisions
in Environmental Research Letters
Dobson B
(2023)
Water Systems Integrated Modelling framework, WSIMOD: A Python package for integrated modelling of water quality and quantity across the water cycle
in Journal of Open Source Software
Description | - We developed methods to undertake a co-design process to engage local people in water-related issues to design green solutions. An online tool was also developed to support the design process and estimate the water requirements of the new green space - A model integrating all the data for water supply and wastewater in London was created and an example of its use has been to simulate how water quality and water demand was affected by the reduced movement of people during the Covid-19 pandemic - Through a number of workshops, we supported a group of stakeholders (NGOs, water industry, developers etc) to agree on a shared problem related to a new housing development in London, and integrated their different perspectives. This was done using a System Dynamics participatory method, which supported a shared understanding of how various variables affecting the use of blue and green space (the shared problem identified by stakeholders in this instance) are connected to each other according to the stakeholders - We created a tool called the Water Data Explorer to visualise and investigate data related to water pollution, flooding and other issues to support the understanding and decision-making of expert (eg. water industry staff) and non-expert (eg. local residents) audiences - The Water Quality Browser, an interface using a water quality model for two catchments in the London Borough of Enfield, was created and tested with Thames21. The browser is an accessible tool for NGOs such as Thames21 (working directly with volunteers in the local community) to help residents build an understanding of the water quality issues in their area. This can also support with identifying the right stakeholders to talk to to address and solve the issues -We developed a Road Pollution Solutions Tool which can estimate and visualise the amount of pollution from major roads across London and shows where, and what type of, sustainable drainage schemes could be constructed to mitigate this. The development of the web-based application has been completed, working in partnership with Thames 21, Imperial College London (Centre for Transport Engineering and Modelling), and Middlesex University, and in consultation with multiple stakeholders across London (e.g., GLA, London Boroughs). - We developed the London Land Use Map with creation of a 2m resolution land cover map for London which will be released through the Open Government License. This has involved collaboration with the Ordnance Survey. It will be made available via National Geoscience Data Centre. - We developed the Water Neutral Garden Calculator tool as a building on the initial success of the CAMELLIA prototype digital tool used to design an urban garden for the Kipling Estate in Southwark, the new Water Neutral Garden Calculator can be used to explore the water neutrality impacts of garden design in any UK location. This tool enables users to explore the design of their house and garden in terms of external water demand and runoff reduction The calculator is now being adopted and adapted for use by two London Councils, Barnet and Harrow through the project "Action for Silk Stream" for use as part of their community engagement. Discussions are underway to tailor the website for their project by adding additional functions and exploring the costs and benefits of creating a mobile phone-based app. An official launch for the website is also being planned." - Throughout the CAMELLIA project, the development of digital tools to enable communities to understand, visualise, and engage with the urban water cycle and the water industry has been paramount. To ensure these tools are available to our stakeholders and their partners both during and after the project, we are developing our Water Information Hub. This is a repository of knowledge, data and the accompanying digital tools either directly or via links. - we developed the Wetland Explorer tool which is a web-based application that lets you explore the effect of creating wetlands on the water quality in two rivers in north London: the Pymme's and Salmon's Brooks. Wetlands can improve river water quality by removing pollutants from surface water. |
Exploitation Route | - We are developing a general purpose on-line graphical water calculator tool for use with both communities and individuals (see https://dist.bgs.now.sh/) for assessing runoff attenuation and water demand which will be made freely available - The general purpose online water calculator can be used by any group of local people to support their design process for funding applications to develop or re-develop green spaces in urban areas. The co-design method is available to use by various groups, from local governments to water companies, to put local people at the forefront of new design solutions addressing environmental issues - Tools and models which investigate data and test scenarios can a) shift the direction of strategies, such as how to deal with wastewater in the London network, b) inform policy and regulation for managing licences and protect the environment, and c) provide evidence for the effectiveness of solutions, such as retrofitting SuDS or implementing a blue/green design for new housing developments - The Water Quality Browser has been tested and is awaiting final modifications before being handed over to Thames21 to use with community groups across London -The Road Pollution Solutions Tool estimates and visualises the amount of pollution from major roads across London and shows where, and what type of, sustainable drainage schemes could be constructed to mitigate this - The creation of a 2m resolution land cover map for London has been completed, which will be released through the Open Government License. This has involved collaboration with the Ordnance Survey. It will be made available via National Geoscience Data Centre - The Water Neutral Garden Calculator web-tool is a guide for how much water your garden needs, how often to water, and how your garden can contribute to flooding. Gardening has a range of social and environmental benefits, from improving gardeners' well-being to increasing biodiversity. The water impacts of gardening are less often discussed. Gardens and urban greening can play an important role in absorbing rainwater. This can reduce the amount of flooding and avoid overburdening sewers during storms. Many people use tap water to keep their plants watered, and this creates pressure on urban drinking water supplies. London currently struggles to provide enough drinking water for its population. Storing rainwater for use in your garden means you use less drinking water as well as increase the ability of our sewers to cope with storm water - We have held a series of internal workshops to produce initial designs and prototypes for the Water Information Hub and its subsequent initial release. There will be focus group consultations with CAMELLIA partners and wider community members throughout the development process - The application lets you explore how wetlands can improve river water quality. Changes in the flow of the rivers as well as changes in nitrate, phosphorus, and ammonium concentrations have been modelled. You can also examine what the climate of 2050 might mean for the flow in the rivers and their quality |
Sectors | Education Environment |
URL | http://www.camelliawater.org |
Description | - A co-design methodology and graphical water calculator tool have been successfully used by a group of residents on a housing estate in central London to bid for funding from Southwark Council to develop a community water garden. - CAMELLIA was used as a case study in the Policy Connect Bricks and Water Report: Building Resilience Homes for England. The report forms Policy Connect's response to the Housing, Communities, and Local Government Committee's call for evidence on the Future of the Planning System in England. - Insights from the CAMELLIA team have been used to inform a Private Members' Bill being submitted to Parliament by Philip Dunne MP and these have helped shape amendments being considered in the current passage of the Environment Bill. In addition, a CAMELLIA PhD student is on secondment to Philip Dunne's team and is helping with the development of the Bill. - The CAMELLIA team have been assisting Thames Water with their Drainage and Wastewater Management Plan (DWMP) strategic planning and provided input on citizen engagement. - CAMELLIA are part of a Crane Valley Partnership group, which is part of Thames Water's Smarter Water Catchments programme. - - CAMELLIA is an active partner on The Net Gain Planning Tool (NGPT) project, a co-developed tool for built environment professionals for assessment and measurement of net gains achieved in new built environment plans and developments - Dr Ana Mijic was appointed Co-Director of the Systems Engineering and Innovation to Civil Infrastructure - Dr Mijic has provided input / feedback on the Water wise 'Review of Water Neutrality in the UK' report that will be published soon. - The CAMELLIA team is working with Sainsburys on a rainwater harvesting and water neutrality project for across the UK supply chain. - The CAMELLIA team have provided expert advice to the Royal Borough of Chelsea local authority on their local plan. - Adrian Butler and David Balmforth (Chair of CAMELLIA Advisory Panel) have been continuing to assist Philip Dunne (Chair of UK Government's Environmental Audit Committee). Due to impacts from the pandemic on parliamentary time, the PMB ran out of time before it could receive its second reading. Instead, key amendments incorporating elements of PMB have been accepted by the government. These include placing a duty on government to publish a plan by September 2022 to reduce sewage discharges from storm overflows; a duty to report regularly to Parliament on progress on implementing the plan; and a duty on water companies to publish data annually on storm overflow operation. - Adrian Butler (ICL)represent CAMELLIA on the Steering Board for the Crane Smarter Water Catchment. As a Board member, Adrian had been asked to sign off a report by Atkins, which has been seeking to assess carbon benefits in the catchment. They have been working largely from the CEH Land Use map. This has a 10 m resolution and means that the urban areas have simply been classed as "urban" and with zero carbon sequestration/emissions, due to the coarse resolution. This means that any carbon contributions from gardens and trees have been completely neglected. The work is a preliminary assessment, and they have a list of recommendations and next steps. Adrian thought that would be a very interesting piece of work suggested for the analysis to be redone using the high-resolution land use data produced in CAMELLIA. - Adrian Butler (ICL) and Jacob Tompkins set a meeting with the Rivers Trust (Rob Collins and Allison Furber). The meeting was to discuss CAMELLIA's work, mainly the digital tools and engagement approaches in order to see how CAMELLIA's work can link with theirs. - Adrian Butler(ICL) and Tse-Hui The (UCL) had meeting with Action for Silk Stream team on December 2023, aiming to review the progress of the CAMELLIA tool and assess its suitability for integration into the "Action for Silk Stream for Community Fund Idea" project. - CAMELLIA's team from ICL and BGS had a meeting with the GLA's team. During the meeting, Adrian Butler presented CAMELLIA's work (Digital tools for interactive community engagement in urban water management) and he also showed his presentation at the AGU conference (Investigation of Urban Cooling using Permeable Paving under Different Wetting Conditions). The GLA team was interested in the Permeable Paving work. Also, they were interested on the Garden Water Neutral Calculator and the High-Resolution Land Use Map. A follow up meeting and further discussion was agreed to be during early 2024. - CAMELLIA's team from ICL and BGS will attend the Thames Rivers Trust forum to present CAMELLIA's tools and to set up some pilot projects with catchment partnerships to look at the use of WSIMOD in their work. |
Sector | Education,Environment |
Impact Types | Societal Policy & public services |
Description | Bricks & Water report citation |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/13216/pdf/ |
Description | Crane Valley Partnership (CVP) Smarter Water Catchment |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Description | DWMP Strategic Forum (Thames Water) |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | Environmental Bill |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Description | Greening Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) - Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Description | Inland flooding enquiry (EFRA) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/5063/html/ |
Description | Innovation competition consultation (Ofwat) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://www.ofwat.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Innovation-funding-and-competition-decision-desi... |
Description | Mogden Technical Working Group (Thames Water) |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | Sewage (Inland Waters) Bill by Philip Dunne MP |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://www.philipdunne.com/sites/philipdunne.com/files/2021-01/hcb16_-_sewage_inland_waters_bill_1.... |
Description | Sustainable Living Places (Royal Academy of Engineering) |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
URL | https://www.raeng.org.uk/publications/reports/sustainable-living-places-(1) |
Description | Thames Water Strategy 2050 |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | Integrated Water Planning Portal for Digital Planning Applications and Sustainable Urban Design |
Amount | £194,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2023 |
End | 09/2024 |
Description | Permeable Paving Cooling |
Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Greater London Authority (GLA) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start |
Description | Resilience scenarios for integrated water systems |
Amount | £329,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2023 |
End | 03/2025 |
Description | Rethinking water planning |
Amount | £45,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Environment Agency |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2023 |
End | 12/2023 |
Description | Road Pollution Solutions Tool development |
Amount | £6,300 (GBP) |
Organisation | Thames 21 |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 06/2022 |
End | 04/2023 |
Description | Road Pollution Solutions Tool: further development and application to River Thames catchment between Maidenhead and Teddington |
Amount | £24,767 (GBP) |
Organisation | Thames 21 |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2022 |
End | 07/2023 |
Description | Road run-off - wider implications |
Amount | £40,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Environment Agency |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2022 |
End | 07/2022 |
Description | Tech for Nature |
Amount | £70,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Royal Bank of Canada |
Sector | Private |
Country | Canada |
Start | 07/2020 |
Description | Twitter Dashboard development (ESRC Impact Acceleration Account) |
Amount | £9,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start |
Description | Virtual decision rooms for water neutral urban planning (VENTURA) |
Amount | £809,576 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/V042084/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2021 |
End | 04/2024 |
Title | Co-design method |
Description | Method for local collectives to come up with an intervention. This was trialled in the Kipling estate project where residents co-designed a green roof and received funding from the local council to develop it. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | This method was trialled in the Kipling estate project where residents co-designed a green roof and received funding from the local council to develop it. |
URL | https://www.bottomupinfrastructure.org/method/detailed-design/ |
Title | Community water calculator |
Description | A graphical calculator for water runoff attenuation and water demand from a community water garden design. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | This tools was successfully used as part of a community garden funding bid. |
URL | https://dist.bgs.now.sh/ |
Title | Novel methodology to compare system dynamics models |
Description | Novel method to compare Causal Loop Diagrams based on qualitative (thematic analysis) and quantitative analysis (centrality index) applied to an urban sustainability case study in Thamesmead (London, UK). It analyses the differences between the foci of hydrological modellers, stakeholders with decision power and other groups of stakeholders. A paper on this will be published in due course, further information is available by contacting the researchers. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | This method provides a way of comparing the system perception of modellers, of decision-makers and other groups of stakeholders, as well as comparing methods for large Causal Loop Diagrams (CLDs) providing results that are easily comprehensible by a diverse range of stakeholders. |
URL | https://proceedings.systemdynamics.org/2021/ |
Title | System dynamics boundary objects for research projects |
Description | Participatory system dynamics can be used to create boundary objects for better managing interdisciplinarity in large research projects. The conference paper describing this method further explains how such activities can help facilitate the communication and transfer of meaning and learning amongst diverse sub-teams and contribute to the better management of research projects. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | These activities helped bridge differences in perspectives within different members and disciplines of the CAMELLIA team to create a shared understanding of the system that the project is aiming to improve through its activities and research. |
URL | https://proceedings.systemdynamics.org/2020/papers/P1473.pdf |
Title | Urban Planning Sustainability Framework (UPSUF) |
Description | - Theoretical framework incorporating blue-green solutions in the urban planning system. - Urban natural capital evaluation, providing a common language for urban stakeholders.• - Quantification of urban natural capital indicators using a GIS tool. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | The framework was presented at two conferences in 2020. |
Title | Virtual SD workshops |
Description | Method for engaging stakeholders in system dynamics workshops online |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | This new method for moving workshops typically carried out in-person to on-line, allowed the CAMELLIA team to effectively continue carrying our their work plan. A paper on this method was recently published explaining how these online workshops can be set up successfully for System Dynamics participatory activities. |
Title | Water management lesson plans |
Description | Educational resources to help students understand the complexities of providing clean and safe drinking water. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Educational resources to help students understand the complexities of providing clean and safe drinking water. |
URL | https://waterinfohub.org/education.html |
Title | CatchWat |
Description | A catchment water management model that integrates environmental impacts, human activities, and management measures as three hierarchical levels. CatchWat simulations are evaluated against observed river flow and pollutant data including suspended solids, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus. |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | A first use of the model on the Cherwell Catchment emphasises the importance of systems boundaries in integrated water quality modelling and simulating the mechanisms of seasonal water quality behaviour. Incorporating these mechanisms is required to develop coordinated strategies for river water quality management, that can ultimately lead to more efficient and sustainable catchment management. |
Title | CityNC |
Description | A system dynamics (SD) modelling framework to assess the natural capital performance of development and aid design evaluation. |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | The model can explore how combined or individual changes in development design can affect natural capital and the provision of ecosystem services, for example, biodiversity or flood risk. By evaluating natural capital and ecosystem services over time, greater justification for their inclusion in planning and development can be derived, providing support for increased blue and green space within cities, improving urban sustainability and enhancing quality of life. |
Title | CityWat London |
Description | The lumped model integrates London's water system, from abstraction to wastewater treatment. A semi-distributed version of the model created for certain areas and processes (eg. sewage) can investigate scenarios in more detail and support with the planning. |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | The model was used to investigate the effect of Covid-19 on London's water quality and demand, showing the effect of the reduced movement of people (paper accepted). |
URL | https://github.com/barneydobson/citywat |
Title | CityWatStorm model of Norwich's surface water runoff and foul flows |
Description | CityWatStorm is a novel representation of a combined sewer system that captures flood volumes and combined sewer overflows by considering the sewer discharge limit to rivers which is normally determined based on a specified rate (termed as greenfield runoff rate). |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | CityWatStorm is able to capture the SuDS betterment within 95% accuracy, and the total flood volume and CSOs with an accuracy ranging from 78 to 83%. This makes the aggregated model suitable for a wide range of applications such as sensitivity analysis of catchment interventions for long-term planning under future uncertainties. |
Title | Detailed land use dataset London |
Description | Small-scale, detailed land use dataset for London |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | The dataset was used within the CityWat model to achieve the results published in the Covid-19 paper (awaiting publication) |
Description | Anglian Water |
Organisation | Anglian Water Services |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | - Provided consultation on climate change adaptation report - Created a CityWat model for Norwich to support their planning and decision-making around interventions. |
Collaborator Contribution | Provided data required for the model, as well as their time and feedback. |
Impact | The project is still ongoing - too early to say. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | CAMELLIA advisory board & case studies |
Organisation | Stantec |
Country | Canada |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Use of data and develpment of modelling techniques. |
Collaborator Contribution | Strategic directions for project work, these include the development of a low-cost domestic smart water tank for combining rainwater harvesting and with reduced storm runoff using low-cost sensor technology and new ways of working with stakeholders in water management decision making. |
Impact | Development of a prototype smart water tank for use in domestic water management. Disciplines include hardware and software developments. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | FORCE |
Organisation | Friends of the River Crane Environment |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | - analysed water quality data collected through the group's citizen science activities |
Collaborator Contribution | Provided access to datasets and involved CAMELLIA experts in their internal meetings |
Impact | Results provided by CAMELLIA were presented at their AGM |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | GLA/Interpave - Impact of evaporative cooling from permeable paving |
Organisation | Greater London Authority (GLA) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Three members of the CAMELLIA team worked on the GLA/Interpave project at White City Hall Campus over the course of 6 months. Two experimental pads were installed a monitored and the data collected and analysed. An MSc project sought to model the data in order to aid in the interpretation and wider significance of the work. |
Collaborator Contribution | The GLA/Interpave partnership provided funding, material, technical expertise and labour for construction of the permeable paving at White City Campus in London |
Impact | The project is still on-going - this is an multi-disciplinary project between academic researchers, a local authority and private company ( practitioners) |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | New water management approaches for London |
Organisation | Thames Water Utilities Limited |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Developing models for improved water management. |
Collaborator Contribution | Data provision, meeting attendance & strategic direction |
Impact | MSc projects |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Progress towards net zero water use for housing development |
Organisation | Peabody Trust |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Organising and leading stakeholder engagement meetings in order to find a collative view and shared values for the work using system dynamics workshops . |
Collaborator Contribution | Contribution to stakeholder forum, participation in stakeholder workshop and provision of site visits to Thamesmead, a key case study site within CAMELLIA. |
Impact | Improved understanding of stakeholder needs and views for the Thamesmead site. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Road runoff pollution solutions |
Organisation | Environment Agency |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Development of GIS visualisation tool |
Collaborator Contribution | Thames21: Collection of road runoff data Middlesex University: Chemical analysis of road runoff data ICL Transport Centre: Provision of road network traffic density data EA: Funding, guidance and advice GLA: Funding, guidance and advice Surrey CC: Funding, guidance and advice |
Impact | Online GIS tool which provides a visual representation of estimates of pollution from roads (incl. Cadmium, copper, pyrene, benzo-a-pyrene, zinc, total suspended solids). Used to provide indications where different types of SuDS could be implemented to mitigate these pollutants. Launched by the Mayor of London in Nov 2023. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Road runoff pollution solutions |
Organisation | Greater London Authority (GLA) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Development of GIS visualisation tool |
Collaborator Contribution | Thames21: Collection of road runoff data Middlesex University: Chemical analysis of road runoff data ICL Transport Centre: Provision of road network traffic density data EA: Funding, guidance and advice GLA: Funding, guidance and advice Surrey CC: Funding, guidance and advice |
Impact | Online GIS tool which provides a visual representation of estimates of pollution from roads (incl. Cadmium, copper, pyrene, benzo-a-pyrene, zinc, total suspended solids). Used to provide indications where different types of SuDS could be implemented to mitigate these pollutants. Launched by the Mayor of London in Nov 2023. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Road runoff pollution solutions |
Organisation | Middlesex University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Development of GIS visualisation tool |
Collaborator Contribution | Thames21: Collection of road runoff data Middlesex University: Chemical analysis of road runoff data ICL Transport Centre: Provision of road network traffic density data EA: Funding, guidance and advice GLA: Funding, guidance and advice Surrey CC: Funding, guidance and advice |
Impact | Online GIS tool which provides a visual representation of estimates of pollution from roads (incl. Cadmium, copper, pyrene, benzo-a-pyrene, zinc, total suspended solids). Used to provide indications where different types of SuDS could be implemented to mitigate these pollutants. Launched by the Mayor of London in Nov 2023. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Road runoff pollution solutions |
Organisation | Surrey County Council |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Development of GIS visualisation tool |
Collaborator Contribution | Thames21: Collection of road runoff data Middlesex University: Chemical analysis of road runoff data ICL Transport Centre: Provision of road network traffic density data EA: Funding, guidance and advice GLA: Funding, guidance and advice Surrey CC: Funding, guidance and advice |
Impact | Online GIS tool which provides a visual representation of estimates of pollution from roads (incl. Cadmium, copper, pyrene, benzo-a-pyrene, zinc, total suspended solids). Used to provide indications where different types of SuDS could be implemented to mitigate these pollutants. Launched by the Mayor of London in Nov 2023. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Road runoff pollution solutions |
Organisation | Thames 21 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Development of GIS visualisation tool |
Collaborator Contribution | Thames21: Collection of road runoff data Middlesex University: Chemical analysis of road runoff data ICL Transport Centre: Provision of road network traffic density data EA: Funding, guidance and advice GLA: Funding, guidance and advice Surrey CC: Funding, guidance and advice |
Impact | Online GIS tool which provides a visual representation of estimates of pollution from roads (incl. Cadmium, copper, pyrene, benzo-a-pyrene, zinc, total suspended solids). Used to provide indications where different types of SuDS could be implemented to mitigate these pollutants. Launched by the Mayor of London in Nov 2023. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Water Futures - a teaching case study |
Organisation | Royal Bank of Canada |
Country | Canada |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | BGS: Development of teaching tools UO: Modification of water management teaching tool |
Collaborator Contribution | Thames21: Scientific input and assisting with testing |
Impact | On-line education programme that introduces students to water management. Comprises a series of lessons and activities based on water resources management based around future management of drinking water supply and infrastructure in relation to the issues of population increase and climate change. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Water Futures - a teaching case study |
Organisation | Thames 21 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | BGS: Development of teaching tools UO: Modification of water management teaching tool |
Collaborator Contribution | Thames21: Scientific input and assisting with testing |
Impact | On-line education programme that introduces students to water management. Comprises a series of lessons and activities based on water resources management based around future management of drinking water supply and infrastructure in relation to the issues of population increase and climate change. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Title | Community water calculator |
Description | A graphical calculator for water runoff attenuation and water demand from a community water garden design. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | The tool was successfully used as part of a community garden funding bid. |
URL | https://dist.bgs.now.sh/ |
Title | Gridded 2m resolution land cover map for Greater London |
Description | The creation of a 2m resolution land cover map for London has been completed, which will be released through the Open Government License. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Impact | This has involved collaboration with the Ordnance Survey. It will be made available via National Geoscience Data Centre. |
Title | Rainwater harvesting calculator |
Description | Web tool to calculate rainwater usage and collection requirements |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | The tool led to the development of the Kipling calculator and its second iteration for wider application. |
URL | https://calculator.iilab.org/rwh/ |
Title | River Sentiment App |
Description | People talk about rivers online: from complaints about pollution to celebrations of wildlife, rivers provoke passionate social media comments. When people express their feelings about rivers on Twitter, we get a glimpse of how nature affects human wellbeing. The River Sentiment Dashboard displays social media sentiment about more than 450 rivers and other waterbodies in the Thames basin in England alongside data about their ecological status. This prototype was developed by the University of Oxford and Thames21. The project was supported in 2021-2022 by the University of Oxford's ESRC Impact Acceleration Account. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | Not yet aware of any impact |
URL | https://riversentiment.app |
Title | River Sentiment Dashboard |
Description | The River Sentiment Dashboard supports river stewards with live information about social media sentiment regarding 400 water bodies in the Thames basin. The tool answers the question how Twitter users feel about a specific water body. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Impact | The River Sentiment Dashboard supports river stewards with live information about social media sentiment regarding 400 water bodies in the Thames basin. The tool answers the question how Twitter users feel about a specific water body. |
URL | https://riversentiment.app/ |
Title | Road Pollution Solutions Tool |
Description | The tool estimates and visualises the amount of pollution from major roads across London and shows where, and what type of, sustainable drainage schemes. This tool is could be constructed to mitigate this. It is currently under development to underpin future work by team: Thames21, British Geological Survey, Middlesex University, and Imperial College London |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Impact | Decision Support Tool for prioritising locations for road runoff treatment |
URL | https://mapapps.bgs.ac.uk/road-pollution-solutions/ |
Title | Water Data Explorer |
Description | Online GIS tool that enables users to view spatial publically available hydrological and hydrogeological data related to water management for any site within the UK. It also allows users to upload their own information to the site and view it with the other available data sources. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | Being used in a project with GLA (Greater London Assembly) and Thames 21 in order to assess source - pathway - receptor linkages across London associated with road runoff. |
URL | https://mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/waterdataexplorerlondon/home.html |
Title | Water Data Explorer |
Description | Visualise all of the water-related data at once or interrogate and add your own data using our online web GIS. This application is recommended for users with experience in geographical information systems (GIS) or with online map viewers. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Impact | Visualise all of the water-related data at once or interrogate and add your own data using our online web GIS. This application is recommended for users with experience in geographical information systems (GIS) or with online map viewers. |
URL | https://mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/waterdataexplorer/index.html |
Title | Water Information Hub (WIH) |
Description | This is a repository of knowledge, data and the accompanying digital tools either directly or via links. WIH is a digital tools to enable communities to understand, visualise, and engage with the urban water cycle and the water industry has been paramount |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Impact | WIH is live but we have not yet promoted this as still populating it. Very little impact as yet, this will come after final release. |
URL | https://waterinfohub.org/home.html |
Title | Water Quality Dashboard |
Description | The Water Quality Dashboard allows the visualisation of measurements of river water quality across London. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Impact | The Water Quality Dashboard allows the visualisation of measurements of river water quality across London. |
URL | https://bgs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=57cb1b40a0424b109d474c27dfddba41 |
Title | Water Systems Integrated Modelling framework, WSIMOD: A Python package for integrated modelling of water quality and quantity across the water cycle |
Description | Release following the JOSS review process |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | Publication Dobson et al., (2023). Water Systems Integrated Modelling framework, WSIMOD: A Python package for integrated modelling of water quality and quantity across the water cycle. Journal of Open Source Software, 8(83), 4996, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.04996 Used in an increasing number of applications. |
URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7662569 |
Title | Water neutral garden calculator |
Description | This tool is a guide for how much water your garden needs, how often to water, and how your garden can contribute to flooding. Gardening has a range of social and environmental benefits, from improving gardeners' well-being to increasing biodiversity. The water impacts of gardening are less often discussed. Gardens and urban greening can play an important role in absorbing rain water. This can reduce the amount of flooding and avoid overburdening sewers during storms. Many people use tap water to keep their plants watered, and this creates pressure on urban drinking water supplies. London currently struggles to provide enough drinking water for it's population. Storing rain water for use in your garden means you use less drinking water as well as increase the ability of our sewers to cope with storm water. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Impact | The tool was introduced to Silk Stream stakeholders |
URL | https://mapapps.bgs.ac.uk/CamelliaCalculator/ |
Title | Wetland Explorer |
Description | This web site lets you explore the effect of creating wetlands within the catchment of the Pymme's and Salmon's Brooks on the level of pollution in the rivers. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Impact | Training workshop with stakeholder Thames21 who wish to use the software |
URL | https://wetland-explorer.bgs.ac.uk/ |
Description | An interview with CIWEM |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | CIWEM magazine interviewed one of CAMELLIA researcher on the project that looks at using AI and Twitter to help find out how people feel about rivers |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.ciwem.org/news/river-sentiment-app-helge-peters-interview |
Description | BBC London News Interview |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | CAMELLIA PI was interviewed by BBC London News on water resources strategy for South East England |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | BBC national news- Interview |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Ana Mijic (ICL) had an interview with the BBC national news to show the methodology support from Dr Gemma Coxon (University of Bristol), Dr Nick Voulvoulis(Imperial College London), Dr Barnaby Dobson (Imperial College London) on Counting the dry spills. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66670132 |
Description | Barney Dobson contributed to Imperial College podcast "When droughts lead to hosepipe bans" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Barney Dobson contributed to Imperial College podcast "When droughts lead to hosepipe bans" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://soundcloud.com/user-499485249/when-droughts-lead-to-hosepipe?in=user-499485249/sets/podcast-... |
Description | Barney Dobson contributed to The Guardian article "River pollution goes unchecked as testing in England falls to 10-year low" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Barney Dobson contributed to The Guardian article "River pollution goes unchecked as testing in England falls to 10-year low" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/02/river-testing-england-fallen-sharply-decade-data... |
Description | Barney Dobson contributed to The Independent article "'The shape of summers to come': Why new drought is more ominous than parched days of 1976 and 1995" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Barney Dobson contributed to The Independent article "'The shape of summers to come': Why new drought is more ominous than parched days of 1976 and 1995" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/drought-1976-1955-2022-climate-change-b2144052.htm... |
Description | Barney Dobson presented the poster "Clustering networks: reducing the complexity of urban hydrology models with graph partitioning for fast and flexible simulations" at EGU Conference 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Clustering networks: reducing the complexity of urban hydrology models with graph partitioning for fast and flexible simulations (Dobson et al): poster presented at EGU Conference 2022 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | CAMELLIA Newsletter |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The first quarterly CAMELLIA newsletter was published in February 2020 and it has since been sent regularly to inform partners and other interested stakeholders of the progress in CAMELLIA. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
URL | https://www.camelliawater.org/newsletter |
Description | CAMELLIA Water Youtube Video channel |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The CAMELLIA water YouTube channel currently has 5 videos uploaded. One is a video that CAMELLIA team recorded for World Water day 2021, and 4 remaining video are extracts from the CAMELLIA event held in November 2021, which explain some of the tools developed to date. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJPoFzBwZCxs8BEDCykGD4Q/featured |
Description | CAMELLIA blog |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Blog posts translating CAMELLIA research and activities into a more accessible and shareable format, published on the website. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
URL | https://www.camelliawater.org/blog |
Description | CAMELLIA stakeholder event - Do we have an urban water quality crisis (and what can we do to solve it?) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | In November 2021 we held an on-line event for our stakeholder and the public exploring the question of dealing with an urban water quality crisis. We had speakers from the water industry, NGOs, consultants and politicians addressing the question and we showcased the tools in interactive sessions that the CAMELLIA team have been developing to contribute to solving the issue. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.camelliawater.org/events |
Description | CAMELLIA website |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The project's website went live in April 2020 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
URL | https://www.camelliawater.org |
Description | Co-designing Infrastructures |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Tse-Hui The (UCL) podcast for the "Co-designing Infrastructures" book with talking about the Kipling case study from CAMELLIA |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Co-designing Infrastructures: Community collaboration for liveable cities. Book launch event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Co-designing Infrastructures: Community collaboration for liveable cities. Book launch event |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Coletta, Fratino, Pagano, Pluchinotta, Zimmermann, Giordano presented: Flood risk management in a complex urban system using a participatory System Dynamics approach. (at 2022 International System Dynamics Conference) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 2022 International System Dynamics Conference: Coletta, Fratino, Pagano, Pluchinotta, Zimmermann, Giordano presented: Flood risk management in a complex urban system using a participatory System Dynamics approach. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Community modelling workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | University of Oxford, supported by colleagues from BGS, ran an in-person community modelling workshop with Thames 21 and volunteers in Enfield in May 2023 as the final step in the co-design of the Wetland Explorer tool. The Wetland Explorer (WE) is a user-friendly computer interface that enables lay people to explore scientific modelling of local water issues. The workshop assessed its usability for non-scientists to engage with scientific modelling analysis of the potential impacts of constructed wetlands on water quality in local rivers. After the workshop a webinar was organised to present the WE to the Enfield Council water management team. The next step for CAMELLIA is to develop the WE further for use in other catchments in combination with WSIMOD. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Croydon schools engagement - January 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Imperial College led an engagement day in partnership with Mott MacDonald with 3 Croydon schools on designs for flood alleviation. Students designed and built small coffer dam prototypes using lego that were tested in the Civil Engineering department's fluids lab. Teachers provided positive feedback and reported good engagement and interest in students. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Digital tools for interactive community engagement in urban water management |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Adrian Butler (ICL) presented CAMELLIA work (Digital tools for interactive community engagement in urban water management) at the FOODEXUK conference. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://floodex.co.uk/presentations/#waterways |
Description | Enfield Meridian Waters development |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | We held a workshop with Enfield Council teams involved in the Meridian Waters housing development to discuss how CAMELLIA can support the project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
Description | Evening Standard article - January 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Online article on Evening Standard (free newspaper in the London area) warning about water challenges and describing the CAMELLIA programme and objectives. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-faces-severe-water-droughts-as-population-grows-profes... |
Description | Final Thamesmead Case Study Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The UCL team (Nici Zimmermann, Irene Pluchinotta, Gemma Moore, Yuhong Wang, Pepe Puchol-Salort, Virginia Coletta) invited all stakeholders related to the Thamesmead case study as well as members from the CAMELLIA team to a final workshop. The workshop took place at the new-built community centre in Thamesmead and was attended by about 30 people. The team presented all different streams of the work (participatory workshops and qualitative modelling, three quantitative modelling streams on the use of natural space, natural space performance, flooding) and included a Socratic talk on the work with the community on the planned active travel path to the Thames. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | FloodEx National Drainage Show |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | CAMELLIA was invited to participate in the FloodEx National Drainage Show at the ExCel Centre on 23-24 November 2022. As well as running a stand to showcase various CAMELLIA products, two talks were given on CAMELLIA's contribution to new techniques in wastewater management. The event also provided useful contacts and interactions with members of the wastewater industry. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | FloodEx talk on community engagement |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | A talk was given by Adrian Butler on community engagement, as part of CAMELLIA's contribution to the FloodEx National Drainage Show at the ExCel Centre on 23-24 November 2022. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | FloodEx talk on rainfall emulation in wastewater design |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | A talk was given by Samer Muhandes, former CAMELLIA PhD student now working with Autodesk, on rainfall emulation in wastewater design, as part of CAMELLIA's contribution to the FloodEx National Drainage Show at the ExCel Centre on 23-24 November 2022. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Friends of the River Crane |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | CAMELLIA held a number of meetings and supported the group's water quality monitoring activities by carrying out analyses and reporting data. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
Description | Futile efforts? Digital innovation in environmental citizen science projects |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Catharina Landström ( Oxford University) discussed CAMELLIA related work as an oral presentation of paper ( Futile efforts? Digital innovation in environmental citizen science projects) in parallel panel. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://4sonline.org/ |
Description | Geography Hub for London Teachers |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Presented the newly launch water futures training (sustainable water management training for secondary school pupils) to secondary teacher in London region |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.camelliawater.org/waterfutures |
Description | H2O Global News |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Global Water News responded to the PR and uploaded it to their website. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://h2oglobalnews.com/new-course-launched-to-prepare-next-generation-on-the-future-of-londons-wa... |
Description | Haringey Rivers Forum |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | We continue to participate to the Forum's regular meetings to provide scientific support and advice. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020,2021 |
Description | Investigation of Urban Cooling using Permeable Paving under Different Wetting Conditions |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Adrian Butler, Tom Rowan and Thanos Paschalis (ICL) presented their CAMELLIA work (Investigation of Urban Cooling using Permeable Paving under Different Wetting Conditions) at the AGU2023 conference in Francisco, California |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.agu.org/fall-meeting |
Description | Kipling co-design workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Three workshops were held between April - Sept 2019 with residents of Kipling estate. The first workshop one focussed on what the resident aims were of the co-design project e.g. to create growing opportunities and increasing biodiversity. Workshop 2 (May) focused on strategy and the third focused on the layout of garden and calculating the water impacts. Resident developed garden designs and used the bespoke calculator developed by BGS to calculate volume of water required for their design options. Residents came up with a final outline design which was used as the basis for funding applications. Two funding calls identified (GLA & LB Southwark). A residents group formed to write and submit bids with support from Leathermarket JMB, UCL and CAMELLIA project team. The residents were successful in winning £19,000 grant from greener city fund. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/engineering-exchange/research-projects/2019/may/co-designing-community-garden |
Description | Leyung Liu presented the poster "Coordinating systems headroom for more efficient multi-catchment water quality management at a critical checkpoint" at EGU Conference 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Coordinating systems headroom for more efficient multi-catchment water quality management at a critical checkpoint (Liu et al): poster presented at EGU Conference 2022 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | London Rivers Week 2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Members of the CAMELLIA team took part in 2 separate presentation/debates to celebrate London River Week, topics included river restoration and climate resilience, in collaboration with Thames Water and EA. CAMELLIA also ran a week long twitter campaign supporting London Rivers week. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Meeting with Action for Silk Stream |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The meeting between CAMELLIA's team and the Silk Stream team aimed to review the progress of the CAMELLIA tool and assess its suitability for integration into the "Action for Silk Stream for Community Fund Idea" project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Meeting with London Friends of Green Spaces Network |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Adrian Butler (ICL) had a meeting with the London Friends of Green Spaces Network to present CAMELLIA tools mainly the Water Information Hub (WIH) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Meeting with the GLA's team |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | CAMELLIA's team from ICL and BGS had a meeting with the GLA's team. During the meeting, Adrian Butler (ICL) presented CAMELLIA's work (Digital tools for interactive community engagement in urban water management) and he also showed his presentation at the AGU conference (Investigation of Urban Cooling using Permeable Paving under Different Wetting Conditions). The GLA team was interested in the Permeable Paving work. Also, they were interested on the Garden Water Neutral Calculator and the High-Resolution Land Use Map. A follow up meeting and further discussion was agreed to be during early 2024. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Meeting with the Rivers Trust |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Adrian Butler and Jacob Tompkins set a meeting with the Rivers Trust (Rob Collins and Allison Furber). The meeting was to discuss CAMELLIA's work, mainly the digital tools and engagement approaches in order to see how CAMELLIA's work can link with theirs. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Monthly ebulletin |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A monthly newsletter is being sent to partners actively engaging with the programme to keep them up to date on all the ongoing CAMELLIA activities and future plans. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
Description | Pepe Puchol-Salort et al presented a poster: Integration of the CityWat model into the Urban Planning Sustainability Framework: case study for the Enfield Borough of London (at the 39th IAHR World Congress) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 39th IAHR World Congress. Poster presented: Integration of the CityWat model into the Urban Planning Sustainability Framework: case study for the Enfield Borough of London (Puchol-Salort et al) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Pepe Puchol-Salort presented poster: CityPlan Water Neutrality Framework for New Urban Developments (at EGU Conference 2022) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Urban water neutrality at different scales: CityPlan design and evaluation framework (Puchol-Salort et al): poster presented at EGU Conference 2022 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Pepe Puchol-Salort presented: CityPlan Water Neutrality Framework for New Urban Developments (at Passive Low Energy Architecture conference) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | PLEA (Passive Low Energy Architecture) - (2022's theme: Will Cities Survive?). Pepe Puchol-Salort presented: CityPlan Water Neutrality Framework for New Urban Developments |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Pepe Puchol-Salort presented: Data-Driven Decision-Support Tool for Water Neutral Urban Development at Different Scales (at AGU Fall Meeting 2022) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | AGU Fall Meeting 2022. Pepe Puchol-Salort presented: Data-Driven Decision-Support Tool for Water Neutral Urban Development at Different Scales. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Pluchinotta, Zhou, Salvia, Moore, Zimmermann presented: Grounding simulation models in a participatory process: a case study of use of urban natural space in Thamesmead, London (at 2022 International System Dynamics Conference) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 2022 International System Dynamics Conference: Pluchinotta, Zhou, Salvia, Moore, Zimmermann presented: Grounding simulation models in a participatory process: a case study of use of urban natural space in Thamesmead, London |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Pluchinotta, Zhou, Zimmermann presented: Dealing with soft variables and data scarcity: Lessons learnt from the quantification in a participatory System Dynamics model. (at 2022 International System Dynamics Conference) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 2022 International System Dynamics Conference: Pluchinotta, Zhou, Zimmermann presented: Dealing with soft variables and data scarcity: Lessons learnt from the quantification in a participatory System Dynamics model. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Poster presented by Pepe Puchol-Salort: Data-Driven Design for Water Neutral Urban Development at Different Scales |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Constructing a Digital Environment, CDE Conference 2022. Poster presented by Pepe Puchol-Salort: Data-Driven Design for Water Neutral Urban Development at Different Scales |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://digitalenvironment.org/events/conference-2022/ |
Description | Presentation to Affinity Water |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | We held a number of meeting with Affinity Water to discuss our research and how we could work together going forward. The four area for potential partnerships were: (i)Natural Capital project - CAMELLIA approach on catchment scale with AW (ii) Opportunity to work together for OFWAT innovation fund. (iii) Heat transfer projects (iv)Water Data explorer,. This is on hold for now due to staff changes at Affinity Water |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Presentation to EA staff |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Members of the CAMELLIA presented to staff at the EA on modelling and methods - the EA were specially interested in community modelling as they were about to embark on a year long project involving chalk stream and engaging the local community. We also shared the results of the Twitter phase 1 project ( which explored the public attitudes & engagement to their local rivers via social media comments and tweets) with the EA team |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Provided expert advice on use of water in the home for content for Cbebbies programme- Maddie the home & you series 1 water |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | CAMELLIA PI provided expert advice on water-use in the home to provide content for pre-school tv programme for pre-school and Key Stage1 aged children. The intended purpose of the programme is to educate young children on the importance of water and to share simple ways they can save water in their homes |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000w0dl/maddie-the-home-and-you-series-1-2-water |
Description | Radio 4 interview on Drainage |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Dr Sarah Bell was interviewed on radio 4 on the subject of drainage and flooding ( unfortunately this interview is no accessible on the BBC) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | River sentiment app launch |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | On 25 May 2022, the river sentiment app was launched (https://riversentiment.app/). The River Sentiment Dashboard displays social media sentiment alongside data about the ecological status of more than 450 rivers in the Thames basin in England. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://riversentiment.app/ |
Description | Road Pollution Solutions Tool workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | This workshop presented the Road Pollution Solutions Tool to a range of industry, regulatory and local government stakeholders. The Road Pollution Solutions Tool (https://mapapps.bgs.ac.uk/road-pollution-solutions/) was partly developed on the CAMELLIA project and partly on two projects led by Thames21, which commissioned the BGS CAMELLIA team to further develop the tool. The tool predicts the pollution risk posed by the local strategic road network, identifies pollution pathways into the river and guides and prioritises where and how nature-based solutions can be used to tackle road runoff pollution. To our knowledge, this work, is the first attempt at this scale to develop an evidence-based strategy for the characterisation and resolution of road runoff. The workshop introduced the underpinning model, how to utilise the nature-based solutions decision-making tool, as well as a Q&A session. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://mapapps.bgs.ac.uk/road-pollution-solutions/ |
Description | Road Pollution Solutions Tool workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | This workshop presented the Road Pollution Solutions Tool to a range of industry, regulatory and local government stakeholders. The Road Pollution Solutions Tool (https://mapapps.bgs.ac.uk/road-pollution-solutions/) was partly developed on the CAMELLIA project and partly on two projects led by Thames21, which commissioned the BGS CAMELLIA team to further develop the tool. The tool predicts the pollution risk posed by the local strategic road network, identifies pollution pathways into the river and guides and prioritises where and how nature-based solutions can be used to tackle road runoff pollution. To our knowledge, this work, is the first attempt at this scale to develop an evidence-based strategy for the characterisation and resolution of road runoff. The workshop introduced the underpinning model, how to utilise the nature-based solutions decision-making tool, as well as a Q&A session. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://mapapps.bgs.ac.uk/road-pollution-solutions/ |
Description | Road Pollution Solutions Tool workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | This workshop presented the Road Pollution Solutions Tool to a range of industry, regulatory and local government stakeholders prior to its completion. The Road Pollution Solutions Tool (https://mapapps.bgs.ac.uk/road-pollution-solutions/) was partly developed on the CAMELLIA project and partly on two projects led by Thames21, which commissioned the BGS CAMELLIA team to further develop the tool. The tool predicts the pollution risk posed by the local strategic road network, identifies pollution pathways into the river and guides and prioritises where and how nature-based solutions can be used to tackle road runoff pollution. To our knowledge, this work, is the first attempt at this scale to develop an evidence-based strategy for the characterisation and resolution of road runoff. The workshop introduced the state of development of the tool and sought feedback from stakeholders about their requirements to guide the completion of the work. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://mapapps.bgs.ac.uk/road-pollution-solutions/ |
Description | Samer Muhandes presented the poster "A method for adjusting design storm peakedness to reduce bias in hydraulic simulations" at EGU Conference 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A method for adjusting design storm peakedness to reduce bias in hydraulic simulations (Muhandes et al): poster presented at EGU Conference 2022 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Severn Trent meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Presented CAMELLIA activities to representatives of Severn Trent to establish a path for collaboration. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Singapore Public Utility Board Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The CAMELLIA team presented an online workshop to the Public Utilities Board team in Singapore, whom had attended the stakeholder event in November 2021 and were keen to learn more about the Use of models in stakeholder / community engagement. 41 delegates from PUB attended the workshop |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Stakeholder Forum - September 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | All-day meeting with CAMELLIA stakeholders to discuss ongoing work, strategic direction, and to collect stakeholder requirements and feedback. Two new collaborations came about as a result - we are currently engaged with one of these stakeholders on a project, and exploring ways to work with the other. The meeting also led to greater awareness and interest in the programme. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | System Dynamics workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Further development of the CAMELLIA use of space interface with project partner Peabody took place in September 2022. This is being used for strategic planning and community engagement to develop access to water bodies as part of the Thamesmead development planning. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | System Dynamics workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Members of CAMELLIA's ICL & UCL teams ran a final water management related workshop with the Thamesmead stakeholders in July 2023. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Systems thinking workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Nici Zimmermann (UCL) led the systems thinking workshop at Greater London Authority (GLA) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Thames Rivers Trust forum |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | CAMELLIA's team from ICL and BGS will attend this forum to present CAMELLIA's tools and to set up some pilot projects with catchment partnerships to look at the use of WSIMOD in their work. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Thames Water Knowledge Share June 2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Thames Water invited CAMELLIA to present at its lunchtime seminar "Knowledge Share" in June 2021, where over 50 colleagues within the water company participated. The event was focused on the community and modelling outcomes of the programme, which was shared with an audience within Thames Water much broader than the immediate partner contacts we work with on a regular basis. We received positive feedback and the event led to more involved participation on the modelling frameworks. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Thames Water Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Nici Zimmermann(UCL) had a meeting with an expertise team at the Thames Water to discuss some CAMELLIA's projects and possibility to use at Mogden Sewage treatment plant |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Thamesmead systems thinking workshops |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | The workshops brought together Thamesmead key stakeholders and collaborators on the CUSSH/CAMELLIA projects to jointly scope the focus of this work in the area of green and blue spaces, housing, sustainability and health. Stakeholders' perspectives were integrated to achieve a common perception of a problem around the use of blue and green space. Quantification of the resulting qualitative model is in progress. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
Description | The Smart Water Butt technology was featured in a piece by Make Water Famous |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The Smart Water Butt technology was featured in a piece by Make Water Famous: "Awesome water-saving tech for your home" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.makewaterfamous.com/news/water-saving-tech-for-your-home |
Description | Tse-Hui Teh presented: Co-designing a Community Garden as Blue-Green Infrastructure |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Co-Creation: Challenging boundaries interdisciplinary conference. Tse-Hui Teh presented: Co-designing a Community Garden as Blue-Green Infrastructure |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Tse-Hui Teh presented: Co-designing a Community Garden as Blue-Green Infrastructure at Reclaim Network+ Webinar Series |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Reclaim Network+ Webinar Series. Tse-Hui Teh presented: Co-designing a Community Garden as Blue-Green Infrastructure |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGPco7_L20E&list=PL4xPfJG-Mbo4LvhL3rtVptHETgLU6w0GX&index=9&t=5s |
Description | |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Active twitter account to increase visibility of the programme and engage with different audiences. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019,2020,2021 |
URL | https://twitter.com/CamelliaWater |
Description | Twitter dashboard workshops |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | In collaboration with Thames21, a couple of workshops were run with members of the general public to co-design the dashboard for the Twitter water bodies dashboard. This informed the development and functionality of the interface based on potential users' preferences and needs. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Water Data Explorer focus groups |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Focus groups with community members, water industry professionals and local government were held to collect requirements for the tool's potential functionalities and use. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
Description | Water Quality Browser training |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | CAMELLIA trained staff from Thames21 to use the Water Quality Browser developed as part of the programme to use for Community Modelling activities in Enfield. Thames21 staff learned the functionality of the Browser and provided feedback on the accessibility of the information, which informed the final modifications of the interface. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Wealdstone Brook workshop 1 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The team have engaged a variety of stakeholders involved in the Wealdstone Brook conversation around its pollution, causes, and possible solutions by organising 2 workshops in July and September 2022. After a tour of the Brook on 4 July 2022 (9 attendees), the workshops on 26 July 2022 (14 attendees) and on 1 September 2022 (18 attendees) aimed to create a shared understanding of what affects water quality in the Brook and build momentum for projects that would improve the water quality. The impact of these workshops and follow-on planning will be estimated in the months to come. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Wealdstone Brook workshop 2 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The team have engaged a variety of stakeholders involved in the Wealdstone Brook conversation around its pollution, causes, and possible solutions by organising 2 workshops in July and September 2022. After a tour of the Brook on 4 July 2022 (9 attendees), the workshops on 26 July 2022 (14 attendees) and on 1 September 2022 (18 attendees) aimed to create a shared understanding of what affects water quality in the Brook and build momentum for projects that would improve the water quality. The impact of these workshops and follow-on planning will be estimated in the months to come. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Wetland Explorer webinar |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Catharina Landström (OU) and Andrew Hughes (BGS) presented the Wetland Explorer to Ian Russell and his water management team in Enfield Borough Council. The Wetland Explorer was explained and demonstrated for the water management team. Its purpose was clarified and how to use it. An extensive discussion allowed the water management team to form in-depth understanding of its different features and their possibilities to use it in the 90 minute webinar. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Wetland Explorer workshop with Thames 21 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A web application for assessing the impact of constructing new wetlands on river water quality was used in workshop with Thames21. This is supporting the planning of their future engagement and work with the local Enfield community. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | When do plant hydraulics matter in terrestrial biosphere modelling? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Athanasios Paschalis (ICL) presented CAMELLIA's work at the AGU 2023 conference in Francisco, California. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.agu.org/fall-meeting |
Description | Working paper published with Mott Macdonald and EA |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Working Paper "SYSTEMS APPROACH TO REGIONAL WATER PLANNING" by the CENTRE FOR SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND INNOVATION. (Working Paper series #1) As a result of the publication, the Environment Agency contacted team to explore project on chalk stream system study. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/images/non-standard-dimensions/SARWP_FINAL_publish_Sep-2022.pdf |
Description | Ziyan Zhang presented the poster "Assessing co-benefits of urban greening coupled with rainwater harvesting management under current and future climates across USA cities" at EGU Conference 2022 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Assessing co-benefits of urban greening coupled with rainwater harvesting management under current and future climates across USA cities (Zhang et al): poster presented at EGU Conference 2022 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |