Anna Hall

Anna is the Water Policy Adviser for the NFU, working in Head Office at Stoneleigh in the Environment Team.

She has a background in Geology and Hydrogeology and spent over 6 years working for an Environmental Consultancy as a hydrogeologist undertaking a variety of work including site investigations, groundwater risk assessments and groundwater resources assessments. She was also involved in the groundwater aspects of the Water Framework Directive, working on the UKTAG Groundwater Task Team and on Initial Characterisation and methods for classification for the Environment Agency.

She now has responsibility for National Water Policy at the NFU covering water resources and water efficiency, water quality, inland flooding, coastal flooding and erosion.

She is involved in a number of UK Stakeholder Groups including the Agricultural Water Resources Liaison Group, England Catchment Sensitive Farming Delivery Initiative, Water Framework Directive, Flood Risk Management, Voluntary Initiative, Agricultural and Wetlands Technical Advisory group as well as the CIWEM Water Resources panel, and the EU Working Group on Floods.