The Holistic Water for Horticulture [HWH] project works with growers across the South East of England, with an emphasis on the Medway river catchment. Launched in May 2019, HWH builds collaborative action and promotes best practise around holistic water management for a more resilient horticultural sector and food supply chain. HWH benefits businesses, communities and the wider environment by promoting measures to:

• Identify high risk/low resilience areas in the catchment to focus grower engagement and development/delivery of suitable measures for
  • improved water self-sufficiency for irrigation through innovation and alternative approaches, such as rainwater harvesting, water trading, water offsetting and storage for crop irrigation;
  • Reducing environmental impacts from excess runoff using Nature based Solutions that have the capacity to provide multiple benefits [mitigate flood risk, improve water quality and/or soil condition, reduce soil erosion, support biodiversity, sequester carbon, promote well-being]