The way forward

Acting alone, waterway authorities cannot be expected to deliver the wide range of public benefits which waterways can offer, while maintaining the fabric of the waterway network upon which all such public benefits depend.  Partnership working with the public, private and voluntary sectors is the best way forward.

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River Thames Society: River Wardens

Safer towpaths in London

Design guide: Chesterfield Canal

Caledonian Canal: innovative education work

Waterway improvements in the Broads

Ashby Canal: restoration through partnership

Crosscut: a European waterways programme

The Fens Waterway Link: a strategic development in the East of England

The Kennet & Avon Canal: a spirit of consensus

Chesterfield Canal Partnership

Leeds and Liverpool Canal: East Lancashire Corridor Study

Huddersfield Narrow Canal: "the impossible restoration"