Anyone can get involved in Forum activities. The programme is advertised through this web site. It is devised by a Steering Committee which meets roughly four times a year. You can influence what the Forum does by contacting the Secretariat. You can suggest issues to be discussed at the Steering Committee meetings. The agenda of the next meeting is posted on the web site in advance, as are the minutes of the previous meeting.

• Next Steering Committee meeting - 11 January 2008
  
  
• Key points from the previous meeting
  
  
• Forum progress report for October 2003 - March 2006
  
  

You can be kept up to date on activities via e-mail by registering with the Forum.

The Forum Steering Committee is made up of representatives of the water industry, research, academia, consultancies and the regulatory bodies. Those currently on the steering committee are:

Denis Peach (Chairman) British Geological Survey Rob Sage Veolia Water Brian Connorton Thames Water Phil Merrin United Utilities Mark Morton Environment Agency Phil Stewart Environment Agency Dick Ainsworth Foundation for Water Research Vincent Fitzsimons Scottish Environment Protection Agency Peter McConvey Environment and Heritege Service, Northern Ireland Tim Haines Entec John Tellam University of Birmingham Monica Lee Geological Survey of Ireland

The steering committee is supported by a secretariat, which is based at the British Geological Survey, Wallingford, Oxfordshire.

Those organisations that have funded the Forum during its current five year programme are:

Environment Agency of England and Wales Natural Environment Research Council (through the British Geological Survey) Thames Water Veolia Water Anglian Water United Utilities Foundation for Water Research Environment and Heritage Service, Northern Ireland Geological Survey of Ireland Scottish Environment Protection Agency