Delivery of Sandpit: Advanced Technology for Addressing Challenges in Water Runoff from Agricultural Land in the UK

农田径流是一个巨大的全球经济和环境挑战。它可能导致土壤流失、地表水污染、下游用户的处理费用、水道和洪水的维护费用。英国处于研究的前沿，寻求通过研究、监管和第三部门组织(例如NFU和农业社区)提供的技术和政策措施来应对这种影响。尽管有这些努力和一些进展的例子，但问题和影响在很大程度上仍然没有得到解决。STFC认识到，通过与一系列其他学科合作，包括那些与径流管理更传统的学科合作，将其专业知识、技术和设施应用于处理田间径流的挑战方面，可能存在巨大的潜力。人们的期望是，STFC的专业知识和能力可以带来解决问题的阶段性变化。为了探索STFC和其他学科的潜力，重新评估挑战和解决方案的性质，STFC计划举办一场为期两天的沙坑活动，以建立涉及STFC资助的研究人员的多学科合作。根据沙坑活动的结果，将资助一些小型项目，目的是为径流提供先进的技术解决方案。CEH将通过举办研讨会和初始资金募集来支持STFC，基于CEH作为诚实经纪人的受人尊敬的地位，我们在组织和运营利益相关者参与活动方面的经验，以及在水文学、洪水、土地利用和污染方面的技术权威；了解每个项目对应对挑战至关重要。

Water runoff from fields is a large, global economic and environmental challenge. It can lead to soil loss, pollution of surface waters, treatment costs to downstream users, maintenance costs for water courses and floods. The UK is at the forefront of research seeking to tackle such impacts via technical and policy measures delivered by research, regulatory and third sector organisations (e.g. NFU, and the farming community). Despite these efforts and some examples of progress, the issues and impacts remain largely unresolved.STFC has recognised that significant potential may exist in bringing its expertise, technology and facilities to the challenge of tackling runoff from fields by working with a range of other disciplines, including those more traditionally associated with the management of runoff. The anticipation is that STFC expertise and capabilities can bring about a step-change in resolving the issue. In order to explore the potential of STFC and other disciplines to evaluate the nature of the challenges and solutions afresh, STFC is planning to run a two day sandpit event to build multidisciplinary collaborations involving STFC-funded researchers. Based on the outcomes of the sandpit event, a number of small projects will be funded with the aim to deliver advanced technology solutions to water runoff.CEH will support the STFC by delivering the workshop and initial funding call, on the basis of CEH's respected position as an honest broker, our experience in the organisation and running of stakeholder engagement events, and technical authority on hydrology, flooding land-use and pollution; understanding of each being critical to addressing the challenge.