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Sustainable drainage system (SuDS) tools: What’s around the corner? | CIWEM Webinar

This webinar, hosted by the CIWEM Central Southern branch, explored the SuDS-iQ and Rainwater Management Platform (RMP) projects, two new schemes on sustainable drainage systems (SuDS), funded by the Ofwat Innovation Fund. SuDS-iQ will be an easy-to-use accessible evaluation tool that will support the design of SuDS to prevent runoff from entering sewerage networks and to protect waterbodies from erosion, flood risk and pollution. The tool will use present day and future rainfall time-series, as well as design storms, to quantify SuDS benefits. The RMP will be a free, user-friendly, online platform that will transform rainwater management. It will offer updated good practices, technical guidance, and tools to help manage rainwater where it falls, prevent pollution, use rainfall as a resource, and boost climate resilience for the benefit of people and the environment. The RMP will allow a refresh of one of the cornerstones of the industry, the CIRIA SuDS Manual (C753). Both projects will deliver essential tools and resources to support the UK Government’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs’ (Defra) new standards for SuDS and to underpin the successful and efficient delivery of Nature-based Solutions as part of Ofwat’s Asset Management Plan (AMP) delivery programmes. This webinar took place on 17 July 2025.