Water Management
With high importance placed on Scotland’s water quality, how we manage land is key to protecting and improving our water resources.
Our rivers are important habitats for a large variety of animals and plants and play a vital role in connecting habitats.
Riparian areas provide shelter, food, shade, and a buffer area to prevent runoff from adjacent fields, helping to prevent pollution from reaching the watercourse. Root systems from riparian vegetation aid riverbank stabilisation and can help prevent erosion.
Reducing diffuse pollution risks to watercourses can benefit your business in a number of ways, for example making better use of nutrients in slurry and manure or an improvement in livestock health through cleaner drinking water supplies. It can also help you to stay on the right side of the Regulations and protect farm payments, whilst protecting the surrounding water quality.
Publications






News
Valuing Your Soils – Practical Guidance for Scottish Farmers
Valuing Your Soils – Practical Guidance for Scottish Farmers
read more >Managing water on your farm – Arran: event summary
July 17, 2018Soils, drainage & grassland, Shetland – Event summary
July 17, 2018Forth Priority Catchment Area: Doune – Event Summary
March 14, 2018Upcoming Events
Feb
Ayrshire Soil & Nutrient Network: 2nd event – Counting the value of slurry
SAC Consulting, JF Niven Building read more >Feb
Slurry Lagoon Storage & Construction – Lanark
Quothquan Village Hall, read more >Feb
Slurry Lagoon Storage & Construction – Ayrshire
Knockrivoch Farm read more >Feb
Slurry Lagoon Storage & Construction – Dumfries
Cummertrees Village Hall read more >Feb
Digestate: The facts – Moray
The Mill House Hotel read more >Feb
Be the Solution to Diffuse Pollution – Nairn
Cawdor Tavern read more >Mar
Slurry Lagoon Storage & Construction – Stranraer
Green Valley Golf Academy read more >Mar
Slurry Lagoon Storage & Construction – Stirling
Blair Drummond Hall read more >Useful links
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