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by Karma Loveday

Trust calls on government to provide policy support to wetlands

The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) has called on the government to adopt wetland creation as a key plank of its plans to improve its water quality and unlock private sector investment in wetland protection and creation.


In a new Wetlands for Water Quality route map, WWT said policy support is needed to unlock wetland potential. Specifically it called on the government to:

• build confidence in regulators and investors by establishing a pilot scheme for treatment wetlands in the UK by 2025;

• make treatment wetlands the default option for meeting nutrient neutrality targets; and

• establish and develop an effective market in nutrient trading and offsetting by creating a nutrient offsetting code.


The route map set out how treatment wetlands can help address the water quality crisis by absorbing pollutants while simultaneously delivering flood resilience, carbon, biodiversity and wellbeing benefits.

WWT said: “We want to see a world where wetlands line our roads, are integrated into housing developments, treat our sewage and are adopted by farmers across the UK.”


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