Triple C

The conventional approach to water management is top-down and involves expensive hard engineering. The complex nature of climate change and its associated water-related effects requires a catchment-based and collaborative approach, with greater landowner involvement. This project seeks to foster this through new ways of driving practical delivery in the field, via participatory approaches to problem solving and implementation, supported by scientific understanding and a professional cadre of technical providers, able to work with landowners and encourage them to take action.

TRIPLE C will enable a more effective integration of practical implementation and decision-making in environmental management, with a greater role for effective intermediaries to convene, communicate, mediate and translate the best available understanding to the farming community. This will increase the implementation of cost-effective actions, thereby improving adaptation capacity.

Main objective of the project is to reduce flooding in the participating catchment areas by demonstrating and validating, through a series of pilot projects, how farmers can create cost-saving water retention and erosion control measures upstream. Co-developed by networks of farmers and water managers, these will take better control of additional rainfall at the source of the issues and result in wide ranging benefits to both the farmers and local communities and other stakeholders.

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