A Webinar worth remembering! Let’s recap Phil Mulvey’s Webinar on rethinking catchment management.

A big Thanks to Phillip Mulvey for kick starting 2025’s HydroTerra Webinar series with a very informative Webinar on Friday 17th January challenging us to rethink strategies around water catchment management and restoration in response to climate change.

Phils presentation recommended that we need to look to holding water at source for flood mitigation and to do this he asked us to remember the Landscape Health song, Climate, Soil, Midslope and River. A hydrated landscape is a healthy landscape.

The Landscape Health Song is:

1. Optimized Small Water Cycle – Increase effective precipitation (Climate)
2. Increase infiltration (Soil)
3. Reduce Runoff and ephemeral springs (Midslope)
4. Recharge the alluvium and riverbed biota (River)

His presentation went through some recommendations on how we can look to effectively rehydrate the landscape and the possibilities if we change the biome cycle, we could therefore change the climate.

This is a short summary of the core take-aways from Phil Mulvey’s presentation. If you would like to further explore this topic, you can get in touch with Phil, his contact is available on the final slide of the webinar presentation which you can see by viewing the webinar.

Link to our webinar page is below.