Name: WReN Water Solutions & Ideas Workshop (Newcastle)
Start: 2026-02-26T09:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-26T16:00:00+00:00
Location: Crowne Plaza Newcastle - Stephenson Quarter by IHG

WReN Water Solutions & Ideas Workshop (Newcastle)

WReN would like to invite you to the Water Solutions and Ideas Workshop at the Crown Plaza, in Newcastle on the 26th of February 2026.
About this Event

Join Our Water Solutions & Ideas Workshop!

We are at an exciting time in water resource management for the WReN region, with the most ambitious plans to maintain a secure supply of water for people and businesses, whilst also protecting and enhancing the environment. Following the direction set by government and regulators, water companies, regional planning groups and wider water users are now planning to deliver improvements to existing abstractions, build new surface water and groundwater supplies and new intra and intercompany transfers to increase water supplies across the region.

With the challenges of climate change, population growth and environmental considerations the scale of water scarcity will increase. To ensure a secure, sustainable and efficient water future for all water users and the environment, we need to develop new innovative and multi-sector solutions.

Workshop Aims:

With water companies at the start of their next planning round, this workshop aims to explore both existing and new water resource options across the region. The workshop will bring together all water users – from agriculture, energy and industry to environmental organisations, water companies and wider to think about new collaborative options for the region.

Are you planning a new reservoir or is there a way of utilising existing unutilised reservoir headroom in a new way? Can you identify a location where an abstraction could be re-located to be better used, or discharge water could be captured? Do you have an idea of a way of optimising the system or using technologies to improve efficiency?

This workshop will seek to discover, collate and understand these opportunities across the region, at a regional, catchment or local level and be the first stage in looking at how these could be used in future plans.

The workshop will be interactive, looking to you to work with us to explore and identify options that could be taken forward to be developed in water resource plans – so please bring your ideas, we want to hear them!