Severn Trent is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its popular STEPS scheme, which has awarded more than 2,300 grants to farmers and landowners to help improve water quality and biodiversity.
The water company has worked with more than 5,000 farmers across its priority catchments through its Farming for Water catchment management programme and is encouraging more to apply for the 2024 STEPS funding.
All the initiatives help reduce the amount of pesticide, nitrate and cryptosporidium entering raw watercourses, said Dr Adam Freer, senior catchment management scientist at Severn Trent. “When STEPS began, we identified 21 catchment areas to work with, but as the scheme has evolved, we’ve been able to double this and we’re now working with 55 catchments across the Midlands.
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