The ULTIMATE event for waterways
& water level management

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We were delighted to announce that Chris Packham CBE will be attending the 2025 event and speaking on the first day. Chris is a naturalist, nature photographer, television presenter and author, best known for his television work.

Chris Packham said "I was very excited to be attending this years Waterways Management Show . Its creative and forward thinking approach is not only timely - it is essential . We are crashing into a crisis and water management will be central to mitigating its impacts."

He went on to say "Only through constructive discussion and the sharing of ideas and skills will we maximise our capacity to adapt and survive . And obviously water is central to life and its sustenance and the mismanagement of our rivers has put it front and central of peoples environmental concerns ."

Waterways Management & Floodex now runs  alongside the National Civils Show, opening the event up to whole new audience of thousands of interested civil engineers, contractors, developers and planners, involved in construction, utilities, highways, railway and coastal defence professionals. There will be no walls between the events, so that interested visitors can cross between events unimpeded.

We were delighted with the turnout of exhibitors, speakers and visitors. We have some fantastic quotes from exhibitors, that will be in the video, when completed. Including Waterways Management Show alongside Floodex and Drainage Show, proved to be a successful and well received initiative that we expect to expand dramatically for 2026.

The Waterways Management Show experience fantastic exhibitors and support for 2025, both old and new, these included: Anglian Water, Southern Water, Environment Agency and many others.

We are also delighted that the Society of Local Council Clerks (SLCC), was supporting the event. The SLCC is the professional body for local council clerks and senior council employees for over 5,000 local councils in England and Wales, many of whom will have waterways on or passing through their areas.

There was a particularly interesting presentation around tackling pollution with enzymes, that means we can counter pollution with a system that has no chemical ingredients and therefore safe for fauna and flora. According the the company this is an 'organic Enzyme based remediation solution, which they are able to modify in their labs to suit individual situations.

For instance the formula has the capacity to remediate oil pollution in water, resulting in complete decarbonisation of the pollutant, as opposed to the current method which involves detergents, which simply break-down the pollutant without a trace. There are plenty of other interesting presentations, around thirty in total, across three theatres, covering, waterways management, flood, SuDS and drainage.