EWSC Action Area Projects

Project 3: Community-led stewardship model for water smart communities

Develop and test a community led stewardship model that empowers communities to incorporate, operate and maintain water-smart assets that meet the principles of Integrated Water Management.

Project Description

This project is developing a community led stewardship model through four steps:

Understanding and assessing existing stewardship models.
Co-designing a new community led stewardship model.
Identifying a suitable residential development site to demonstrate the model.
Producing a replicable model that can be applied to all development types.

This project is determining what is required to deliver a community led stewardship model, considering the operational costs of surface water management and reuse technologies. The stewardship model will take the form of a company that manages the site and is run by individuals, with a representative from an overarching national/regional governing body.

EWSC Model entry point

Stewardship

Delivery lens

Led by

The components of the project reside within ‘Stewardship’ part of the ESWC framework at individual, network, and system levels. The community stewardship model will incorporate a national governance structure to facilitate the implementation of Integrated Water Management principles at a local level.

This project is mainly focused on community led developments and aims to develop a robust stewardship model for estate management. It will also touch on private sector led developments as the stewardship model is applied more broadly.

Community Led

EWSC Framework