UK Water Trade Analysis (UKWIR) is offering free entry to over 1,000 of its water sector analysis reviews aimed toward serving to to enhance water and wastewater providers for purchasers, and defending the setting.
UKWIR is accountable for shaping and facilitating the water trade’s collaborative analysis agenda, drawing on the enter of its water firm members throughout the UK and Eire. The analysis covers a broad spectrum of subjects essential to the UK and Irish water industries, reminiscent of defending and enhance consuming water high quality, via to decreasing the trade’s carbon footprint.
In January 2023 the organisation up to date its report library and launched a MyLibrary function on its web site to supply new methods to entry, organise and share UKWIR’s work – supporting the organisation’s ambition to supply open entry to its analysis for members, collaborators, regulators, teachers, and different key stakeholders.
Steve Kaye, UKWIR chief government, stated, “Open sharing of knowledge and data performs a big position in driving collaborative analysis, innovation and studying throughout the sector and past. It may additionally assist construct bridges to new organisations, instigate new partnerships, and spark new concepts.
Our stakeholders and members have stated they need us to do extra to facilitate this – and I wholeheartedly agree. We need to break down boundaries, present open entry to our analysis and hope it will assist catalyse the collaborative power flowing via the sector – bringing in new voices and concepts to refresh and problem our considering.”
As soon as customers have discovered the related report within the library, it may be added to a personalised assortment of reviews as a part of the brand new MyLibrary function. This supplies fast, easy accessibility to chose reviews – which can be utilized for quotation, to entry a abstract of the challenge’s findings and suggestions, see the organisations concerned within the supply of the initiatives and share them through social media and e mail.
Professor Joby Boxall, Chair of Water Infrastructure Engineering on the College of Sheffield, stated, “This variation will increase alternatives for the tutorial and analysis communities to entry, share and reuse the output of water trade analysis throughout totally different disciplines. It is a essential step to enabling extra collaborative analysis and accelerating new discoveries.”
To make sure reviews are simply accessible, UKWIR has launched a brand new quick-access function to log into the library utilizing a social media account or e mail handle.
In addition to enabling customers to construct their very own report assortment, MyLibrary additionally supplies a PDF obtain choice ought to customers want to learn reviews offline or print out a tough copy. This carries a £10 cost for non-members and is free to UKWIR’s members.
That is simply step one in opening up UKWIR’s work to non-members. Over the following yr, UKWIR is planning a number of initiatives together with internet hosting lunch-and-learn periods with water firm colleagues to share the outputs of the analysis platform’s work in a extra accessible method, together with brief movies and webinars.
UKWIR’s in depth analysis library is offered for all through its web site – www.ukwir.org – and deciding on ‘Publications’.
