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杂影响，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、途径和过程以及污染物混合物如何影响河流生态系统的理解。英国淡水质量计划的倡导者将帮助建立一个跨学科的实践社区，其中包括研究人员、实践者和政策制定者，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。领军者将通过确保在方案内和更广泛的范围内资助的所有研究项目的综合来实现这一点，并加强利益攸关方的参与，以确保方案实现其目的和目标。为了实现方案的有效整合和协调，发展跨学科能力和利益攸关方参与，并最大限度地发挥影响，我们提出了一系列活动，以个人资助的项目内的研究和知识交流为基础。这些活动将有助于制定更好的计划，以适应、缓解和检测现在和未来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.