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Understanding how water moves, behaves and influences communities and industries across the globe.
Water is becoming scarcer in many places and increasingly volatile in others. Building sustainable communities, industries and infrastructure is becoming more challenging. Our wide range of projects highlights our innovation, our creativity, and our focus on finding solutions that rise to that challenge and positively impact our clients and the communities they serve.
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Buscot Park lake: a heritage dam reinvented
Buscot Park Lake, a historic 18th-century feature in Oxfordshire, UK, faced safety concerns due to its aging dam. A statutory inspection revealed it couldn’t adequately handle floods or emergency drawdown, prompting the need for urgent upgrades. To tackle this, HR Wallingford partnered with the
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Preserving the National Botanic Garden of Wales’ heritage landscape
Leaking dams at the historic National Botanic Garden of Wales posed risks to public safety, heritage, and the environment. We designed and supervised sensitive remedial works that restored structural integrity, preserved the Regency landscape, and protected local ecology.
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RAIN: Innovative approaches to flood resilience
With climate change predicted to bring wetter, stormier weather to the UK, more communities will be at risk of flooding. Identifying properties at risk in these communities and helping residents adapt to the impacts of climate change presents a huge challenge for society, particularly in areas where
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Sapphire: using AI to improve river and bathing water quality
As one of the finalists for the Manchester Prize, our goal is to develop an AI tool to help alleviate water pollution stemming from storm overflows, agriculture, and urban areas.
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Water for tomorrow
Access to water is vital for people and industry. But with the pressure of increasing demand and the impact of climate change, the UK government has set targets to significantly reduce water abstraction in England by 2050 to safeguard ecosystems and environments.
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Water for tomorrow
Access to water is vital for people and industry. But with the pressure of increasing demand and the impact of climate change, the UK government has set targets to significantly reduce water abstraction in England by 2050 to safeguard ecosystems and environments.
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A new water information system for St Kitts and Nevis
HR Wallingford has developed a national Water Information System for the Caribbean islands of St Kitts and Nevis to support effective and efficient management of water resources.
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