Thames River Basin
- Created by: DK Muggz
- Created on: 13-05-16 08:16
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- Thames River Basin
- Residential development
- good potential for trade and communications
- settlements built on raised ground in order to reduce flood risk
- conflict involving the increase in the demand for housing
- due to more jobs, more people
- supply of drinking water
- flat sites for residential and industrial development
- Industrial development
- large scaled industries; car manufacturing and iron and steel works, are located on floodplains
- water for cooling purposes
- land is cheap
- river used for trade
- allows import and export of raw materials and finished goods
- allows import and export of raw materials and finished goods
- areas containing chalk, limestone, sand and gravel create opportunities for mineral extraction
- large scaled industries; car manufacturing and iron and steel works, are located on floodplains
- Water supply
- supply for industrial uses
- Thames: 4700 million litres of water abstracted
- supply for industrial uses
- over abstraction has lead to disastrous effects
- five rivers have low flow conditions
- demand has increased by 1.7% per year
- losses through leaks from distribution systems and consumers plumbing
- development pressure and economic activity
- population growth and household size
- use for water in home and garden
- supply for agricultural
- Thames: 4700 million litres of water abstracted
- over abstraction has lead to disastrous effects
- five rivers have low flow conditions
- demand has increased by 1.7% per year
- losses through leaks from distribution systems and consumers plumbing
- development pressure and economic activity
- population growth and household size
- use for water in home and garden
- over abstraction has lead to disastrous effects
- Thames: 4700 million litres of water abstracted
- Transportation and trade
- creates jobs in transport, storage, logistics
- cumulative causation - demand for housing, retail, healthcare, education
- the more trade there is, the more jobs are created
- cumulative causation - demand for housing, retail, healthcare, education
- creates jobs in transport, storage, logistics
- Recreation and leisure
- fishing
- rowing
- swimming
- canoeing
- sailing
- the valleys of the Cherwell and Thames
- farmland
- sports ground
- the city's botanical gardens
- Agriculture
- arable farming in the lower valley and pastaral more suitable in the upper course
- lower valley is attractive to farmers as there is a large (good) supply of water
- the arable farming is getting close to wealthy urban markets
- Energy deveolpment
- waste incinerators - energy
- not used for HEP as it is not steep enough
- Thames Gateway
- caused conflict
- demand for more housing
- build homes on stilts and roads on embankments above flood level
- 120,000 homes
- contains important ecological areas e.g. wetlands
- demand for more housing
- regeneration scheme
- proposed development in the Thames Gateway in areas largely at risk of tidal flooding
- forecast housing growth of 300,000
- employment growth of 300,000
- develop brownfield sites
- caused conflict
- Flood defences
- protects over 420,000 homes
- beyond 2030, the barrier will need upgrading, estimated £4 billion
- February 2016 flood levels 12cm off top of gate
- needs upgrading now, not in 2030
- February 2016 flood levels 12cm off top of gate
- Conservation
- saltmarsh and mudflats home to birds
- Thames Estuary and Marshes, special protection area (SPA)/ Ramsar site
- many SSSI
- Residential development
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