The river basin
management plans for the Scotland and the Solway Tweed river basin
districts set out our ambition to improve from 63% of water bodies
in Scotland at good status to 97% by 2027. This plan will
contribute by enabling stakeholders from a range of sectors and
organisations to co-ordinate activities and resources to tackle
diffuse pollution. It will also help to ensure that resources are
used efficiently, and where possible other pressures on the water
environment will be tackled at the same time.
This plan will
also be key to delivering improvements to protected areas affected
by diffuse pollution. More information on protected areas can be
found in Chapter five of the Scotland and the
Solway Tweed plans.
Through improving
water bodies affected by diffuse pollution we have the potential to
deliver benefits to biodiversity and flood management planning, and
to restore beds, banks and shores that have been altered in the
past. We can also help to increase our resilience to climate change
and to control the introduction and spread of invasive non-native
species, and. The implementation plan will enable stakeholders in
these sectors to engage with the process of tackling diffuse
pollution.
Sections 5 and 6 of this plan summarise two
different tiers of action; national actions and those focused in
specific catchments. The improvements that are expected to be
delivered by these tiers are explained in these sections.