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CIWEM Article | Are sponge soils the key to future UK climate resilience?

In this article, “Are sponge soils the key to future UK climate resilience?” Alastair Chisholm, CIWEM’s Director of Policy looks at the substantial water resources benefits of healthy soil.

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Awareness of the flood risk management benefit of improved soil management is spreading fast. But as the UK bounces from arguably its most familiar climate-water challenge to drought, should we be thinking far more about healthy soil’s water resources benefits?

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