Water Resources West launches online collaboration platform

Regional water planning group Water Resources West has launched "IdeaStream" – an online collaboration platform which will allow people to get involved in consultations and plans to shape the future of water resources across the North West, the Midlands and the cross-border catchments with Wales.

Richard Blackwell, director of Water Resources West, explained: “Making sure we have a sustainable and resilient future for our water resources is incredibly important. We estimate that the region will need over 200 million litres of additional water per day by 2050 – that’s over and above what we use now and it has to come from somewhere. This means that we must work together to find new opportunities to meet these needs. And this is what IdeaStream is all about.”