The FOOTPRINT Tools

The FOOTPRINT Project developed three core tools which are based on the same core science but have different objectives and remits and are intended to be used by three different end-user groups

1. FOOT-FS: Farmers and extension advisers at the Farm Scale.
2. FOOT-CRS: Water managers and those in charge of implementing the Water framework Directive at the catchment and regional scales.
3. FOOT-NES: EU and member states policy and decision-makers, and pesticide registration authorities at the national and EU scales.

each of the three tools allows the:

• Identification of those areas in the agricultural landscape that most contribute to the contamination of water resources by pesticides.
• Estimation of the levels of pesticide contamination in water resources to be made.
• The provision of site-specific recommendations on how to reduce the transfer of pesticides to water resources.

The fact that the three tools share the same overall philosophy and underlying science, ensures that they provide a coherent and integrated solution to pesticide risk assessment and risk reduction at the full range of scales.

	FOOT-FS	FOOT-CRS	FOOT-NES
Target end-users and stakeholders	Farmers and extension advisers	Local authorities and water managers	Policy and decision makers
Scale	Farm Scale	Catchment and Regional Scales	National and EU Scales

Additional tools

In the course of the FOOTPRINT Project a number of additional tools have either been developed or amended to provide support to the three core tools. These include:

• The PPDB: A comprehensive relational database of pesticide physicochemical and ecotoxicological data. This was initially developed by the Agriculture & Environment Research Unit (AERU) at the University of Hertfordshire, and has been extended with additional input from the FOOTPRINT project.
  
  
• FOOTPRINT SUGAR (SUrface water / GroundwAter contRibution index): FOOTPRINT SUGAR is an innovative index which tells you whether water falling on a particular zone mostly contributes to groundwater recharge (i.e. infiltrating areas) or to discharge to surface water.
  
  
• Point Source Tool: Coming soon.
  
  
• FOOTPRINT Climate Zones: A clickable map displaying data on the climatic zones used in the three FOOT Tools can be obtained here .