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。它会导致土壤流失、地表水污染、下游用户的处理成本、河道维护成本和洪水。英国在通过研究、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寻求解决此类影响的研究方面走在了前列。尽管作出了这些努力并取得了一些进展，但问题和影响在很大程度上仍未得到解决。STFC已经认识到，通过与一系列其他学科（包括传统上与径流管理相关的学科）合作，将其专业知识、技术和设施带到解决农田径流问题的挑战中，可能存在巨大潜力。期望STFC的专业知识和能力能够在解决问题方面带来一个阶段性的变化。为了探索STFC和其他学科的潜力，重新评估挑战的性质和解决方案，STFC计划举办为期两天的沙坑活动，让STFC资助的研究人员建立多学科合作。根据沙坑活动的结果，将资助一些小项目，旨在提供先进的水径流技术解决方案。CEH将以其诚实的经纪人地位、在组织和运作利益相关者参与活动方面的经验，以及在水文、洪水、土地利用和污染方面的技术权威为基础，为STFC提供研讨会和初始资金呼吁；理解每一个都是应对挑战的关键。

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.