Triangle

 

SDG goal 14 - Life Below Water

Water Works is a group of more than 140 multidisciplinary researchers from across the university’s campuses in the UK, Malaysia and China. The group’s research informed the Nottingham City Council’s Carbon Neutral 2028 action plan and has driven the water resilience agenda nationally and internationally, including UN calls for action of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans.

 

 

500 million

people live in delta regions

Up to 600 million

microplastic particles found in daily Trent basin surveys

140+

researchers in multidisciplinary Water Works group

 

 

Research

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Tackling nitrate pollution in Vietnam’s Red River Delta

International collaboration and data insights could protect southeast Asia’s giant freshwater ecosystems, which are under increasing threat from urbanisation, changes in agricultural practices and climate change.

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Learning and students

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Key role of tomorrow's engineers

Nottingham’s Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department is rated as among the best in the country. Watch Professor Rachel Gomes MBE talk about her research into wastewater and training the engineers of tomorrow.

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Engagement and impact

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Informing UN report on plastic marine pollution

Evidence-based recommendations from the Water Works research group was presented to the United Nations Environment Assembly and informed its subsequent report on marine plastic pollution and call for urgent global action.

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Policy and operations

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Reducing water usage in our labs

The university’s Environmental and Sustainability Policy includes a commitment to reduce water consumption and increase the efficiency of our water systems. We’ve signed up to the Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework and across our labs we are reducing water use.

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To read more about our impact in this goal you can download our report

Goal 15 - Life on land
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