Source to Tap
Source to Tap is an innovative and exciting, cross-border partnership project and aims to develop sustainable catchment-scale solutions for the protection of rivers and lakes. Source to Tap will focus on the River Erne and the River Derg Catchments which cross the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
This project is now closed.Â
The project aimed to develop sustainable, catchment-scale solutions for the protection of rivers and lakes, which are the main sources of shared drinking water.
Source to Tap delivered a learning and outreach programme. This was targeted at informing and empowering the public about their role in protecting a clean and healthy freshwater environment.
Source to Tap piloted best-practice forestry and peatland land management measures. It delivered an Agricultural Land Incentive Scheme focused on changing land management practices to protect water quality.
These best-practice measures were brought together to form a Sustainable Catchment Area Management Plan (SCAMP), ensuring that lessons learned and successful approaches could be replicated in other drinking water catchments across Ireland, the UK and beyond.
The project ran from 2017 to 2022 and was funded by the European Union’s INTERREG VA Programme, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) in Northern Ireland, and the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (DHPLG) in Ireland. It was managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB).
Partners involved:
Northern Ireland Water, Irish Water, Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute, East Border Region, Ulster University & The Rivers Trust.