NERC Freshwater Quality Champions: understanding changes in quality of UK freshwaters

英国淡水质量的恶化及其对生态系统服务的相关影响，以及气候变化和生活成本危机的复合效应，意味着迫切需要进行研究，以改变我们对河流水污染的来源、途径和处理的理解，以及污染物的混合物如何影响河流生态系统。英国淡水质量计划的支持者将帮助建立一个跨学科的实践社区，包括研究人员、实践者和决策者，能够就淡水中污染物的主要来源、途径、转化和相互作用以及这些过程如何影响淡水生态系统提供有影响力的前沿研究。冠军将通过确保项目内资助的研究项目的综合和更广泛的利益相关者的参与来实现这一目标，以确保项目实现其宗旨和目标。为了实现项目的有效整合和协调，发展跨学科能力和利益相关者的参与，并最大限度地发挥影响，我们提出了一系列活动，以建立在个别资助项目的研究和知识交流基础上。这些活动将有助于制定更好的计划，以便在现在和将来适应、减轻和发现与河流质量下降有关的风险，并为其提供信息。

Deterioration in UK freshwater quality and associated effects on ecosystem services along with compounding effects of climate change and the cost-of-living crisis means research is urgently required to transform our understanding of the sources, pathways and processing of river water pollution and how mixtures of contaminants influence river ecosystems. The UK Freshwater Quality Programme champions will help build an interdisciplinary community of practice that includes researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, capable of delivering impactful frontier research on the major sources, pathways, transformations, and interactions of pollutants in freshwaters, and how these processes impact on freshwater ecosystems. The champions will achieve this by ensuring synthesis across the research projects that are funded within the programme and more widely and enhance stakeholder engagement to ensure the programme fulfils its aim and objectives. To achieve effective integration and coordination of the programme, develop interdisciplinary capability and stakeholder engagement, and maximise impact, we propose a range of activities to build on the research and knowledge exchange within the individually funded projects. These activities will enable and inform the development of better plans for adaptation, mitigation and detection of risks associated with declining river quality, now and in the future.