Hampshire Avon Catchment Partnership Vision Statement

The Partnership’s vision is of healthy water bodies within the Hampshire Avon catchment which are valued and nurtured by residents, businesses and the wider community and which exhibit:

o Naturally functioning flows;o High water quality;o Sustainable and abundant wildlife;o Fully functioning ecosystems linking rivers with their valleys; ando Resilience to climate change and future socio-economic pressures.

Aims

We will seek to realise our ambitions by:

o Committing to working together to achieve better outcomes for the water environment of the Hampshire Avon catchment;

o Ensuring that the ecosystem services provided by our rivers are recognised and valued in decisions about land and water management;

o Developing a shared understanding of the issues facing the catchment, and a shared ambition to take action to resolve them; and

o Developing our own measures of success framed around enhancement of the natural environment of the Hampshire Avon catchment.