Sitting in the School of Geography and the Environment, The Oxford Water Futures Programme undertakes fundamental and applied research aimed at providing underpinning science and policy advice to achieve water security at all scales, and provides postgraduate and executive training to build a cadre of water professionals with the inter-disciplinary skills needed to address water futures.

The UK Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium will inform the analysis, planning and design of national infrastructure, through the development and demonstration of new decision support tools, and working with partners in government and industry.

The Flood Risk Management Consortium is an interdisciplinary research Consortium focuses on some of the more recently identified strategic research investigating the prediction and management of flood risk and is the primary UK academic response to this challenge.

The Catchment Change Network (CCN) brings together a broad range of scientists and practitioners to consider the assessment of future changes across catchment systems. It is intended to enable the exchange of knowledge between the NERC research base and science user community to understand and manage uncertainty and risk related to future changes in catchments.