The EWSC Water Stewardship Blueprint summarises the research from the EWSC Enabling Actions Project, detailing the stages of housing development and identifying the steps needed to foster water stewardship in new sites. It highlights barriers to water stewardship at each stage and focuses on communal assets in the public realm of new estates, such as sustainable drainage systems (SuDS), rather than retrofitting water assets.
The blueprint helps stakeholders align their perspectives toward a common goal by exploring this question: How might we transition from traditional approaches to managing new residential housing in both the private and social sectors — relying on service charges and grounds maintenance — to models offering mutually operated stewardship that genuinely benefit communities and can capture and share water’s value in perpetuity.
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Access the EWSC Water Stewardship Blueprint as an Excel Spread Sheet here:
EWSC Stewardship - Blue print.xlsx
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The blueprint provides a detailed description of the different stages, the insights we've gathered, roles and responsibilities, potential barriers, testable ideas, and key questions to consider. Use the toggle function to explore more:
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The project has identified five key opportunities to enable water stewardship across the housing development pipelines: