The People’s Commission on Water: Calling for radical changes to the web of interests, structures and narratives that sustains the current system www.thepeoplescommissiononthewatersector.co.uk/blog/the-pla...

A close look at the #VR180 camera at #fallowfieldraingardens. Kelman of Neon8 interviewed us for a documentary film commissioned by the Cambridge Central Library. The film features the townie stretch of the Cam & people who love, care for, &/or call it home. #DigitalSpaces

We're having a great time at the #HIImaginarium Lots of people, so many interesting conversations and displays! Come by! We're here till 16:00. Oh, and there's a time machine! See you in Histon 2036.

What do we know about the water quality from Jesus Green to Bait's Bite? Do rowers get sick? 'Rowers Against Sewage' seeks to understand the risk to rowers & other river users from E. coli through 12 weeks of water-quality testing & community engagement. www.watersencam.co.uk/services/row...

While the frost is thick and the ground is solid, our work doesn't stop! We were out early in Fulbourn Primary School today, prepping for our rain garden project. You might wonder: Why bother to dig when it’s icy? A🧵. 1/4

Our #RainLab has continued to spark conversations. It’s a simple but powerful visual showing how vegetation changes soil infiltration, and how it even changes the colour and quality of the water that flows out at the bottom. The takeaway: 🌼 more flower beds ✂️ fewer lawns

It's a wrap for 2025! Here's what's kept us busy this year thanks to all partners, funders and supporters 💙 www.watersencam.co.uk/looking-back... 💦 Let's #KeepTheRainOutOfTheDrain in 2026

Cam Valley Forum's Mike Foley in Newnham, 2nd Dec - what is preventing the River Cam from reaching its chalk-stream promise of "gin-clear" water? Find out in this informative and entertaining talk camvalleyforum.uk/why-is-the-r...

Support water & nature in the River Cam Catchment effortlessly - with the @easyuk plugin, a portion of your online purchase can go to the non-profit @watersencam. We can bring our Rain Lab to more schools & communities, and put more rain in the ground. www.easyfundraising.org.uk/support-a-go...

Just a few spaces now for Water Night at the Technology Museum on Riverside (Pye building) on Wednesday at 6:30pm. Come join us to discuss local water and how some residents manage their use in the home & garden. Part of #cambridgeopenecohomes for CCF. Free. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/water-sens...

@claratee.bsky.social with Natalie (biodiversity at @camcitco.bsky.social ) excited to be at the Bond in #birmingham representing the #rivercamcan partnership at #climateactionfestival @thenationallottery.bsky.social. Just discovered my phone screen is cracked but it gives a nice lens flare effect

With rising temperatures and increased risks of flooding, the Sponge City approach should be adopted in the UK, and it should be a priority for the £10.5 billion investment. Working WITH nature to protect homes & businesses is simply the most sensible thing our government can do. 💙💦

Our first school in Cambs gets the #watersensitive treatment. #icknieldprimary in Sawston has #raingardens, water butts & planters to add drainage capacity & amenity while supporting biodiversity. A brilliant school, now a little less wet at the edges 💙 www.watersencam.co.uk/water-sensit...

This Government is keen to hear your views to help shape Water Efficiency Standards in Building Regulations. In the age of water scarcity, license reductions and continued rush for house building, do the standards go far enough? consult.defra.gov.uk/water-effici...

Comment on exciting new water course creation on #SheepsGreen #cambridge (north of Fen Causeway) for fish passes/general biodiversity. 🐟 engage.cambridge.gov.uk/en-GB/projec...

cambridgeppf.org/etn/rof-pure-c… Tonight 6:30pm Leper Chapel: PURE CLEAN WATER. A primer on water crisis & economic pressures in Cambridge, portrait of a chalk stream and medieval engineering. Our oldest surviving intact building is a beautiful cinema for one more night#riversoffilmlm

Tonight (Wed 1st Oct) in #cambridge, 6:15 pm. 'Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey' is shown as part of the #riversoffilm festival. 💙💦 Tickets: cambridgeppf.org/etn/screenin... @cambridgeppf.bsky.social

Some highlights from the #riversoffilm festival so far: oysters, ocean trawling devastation, #worldriversday poetry, chalk streams & dreams, company of filmmakers who love their rivers and life within and good audiences. Don't miss #ourblueworld cambridgeppf.org/riversoffilm/

Tonight (Thurs 27th) in #eddington, 7:30pm with @transitioncam.bsky.social Stephen Tomkins, ex-chair of #camvalleyforum will talk after the screening. For more about the #riversoffilm festival: 💙💦 @cambridgeppf.bsky.social Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/trans...

A break from #riversoffilm festival for something different - hands on soil in Icknield Primary School, #sawston #DfE #sudsinschools project with rain gardens and planters. Flowers look happy!

Day 1 of #riversoffilm fest, wet & scaly at Museum of Cambridge. A tour & discussion of the fenland collection, then an evening of short films incl the brilliant Oyster Land with Q&A from the director. @cambridgeppf.bsky.social ℹ️ bit.ly/roffest 💙💦

Excited to start a rainwater harvesting project to support trees at #stmatthewspiece Community Orchard. Working with #petersfield residents, @camcitco.bsky.social, On the verge Cambridge and others at #stmatthewsgardens / #yorkstreet. Extra hands, smiles & tea most welcome!

Cambridge Rivers of Film Festival: Films & film-related events to inspire care, curiosity & action for our rivers and oceans. Main: 23 Sept - 4th Oct. cambridgeppf.org/riversoffilm/ Tickets at no cost or at affordable prices, thanks to our event partners & #RiverCamCAN

Seeking volunteers 🙏🏼 for The Cambridge Rivers of Film Festival 23rd Sept – 4th Oct. Partnering with cambridgeppf.bsky.social to bring an exciting programme of films, workshops & other events focused on rivers this Autumn. We seek volunteers like you! #riversoffilmfestival #rivercamcan

The draft Local Nature Recovery Strategy is open for comment until 11 Sept. The LNRS describes our most precious habitats in Cambridgeshire & Peterborough, including chalk streams & fen habitats. For benefit of future generations & our non-human kin yourvoice.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/lnrs/consult...

Funding is withdrawn for the relocation of Cambridge sewage treatment works, four months after the Development Consent Order passed. @SaveHoneyHill1 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lovely film from #meetingofrivers project #rivercam @neilwwilliams.bsky.social Friends of the Cam vimeo.com/1077559713/a...

New research shows that a tree canopy of 40%, supported by retrofit rain gardens, could cut air temperatures in cities by up to 5C during heatwaves. Trees take time to mature, so "we need to go faster and go harder" to adapt our cities for climate change. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our friends at the Newmarket Chalk Streams Trust seek a Project Officer to help deliver the "Rivers of Light - Newmarket’s Secret Chalk Streams!" Project, raising awareness of the local chalk stream network & improving wildlife, landscape & biodiversity. newmarketchalkstreamtrust.co.uk/vacancy

"Keep your keep dry". Rain gardens and other sustainable drainage systems reduce flood risk by relieving pressure on drains. Project with Illustration & Animation BA students at Cambridge School of Art. Image by KatsGrimm (X) #illustratedSuDSBenefits #raingardens

Come join us today at the Cambridge Museum of Technology with other river groups - #CommunityRiverDay, Sat 12th July 10:30am – 4:00pm. £2 adults, inc entrance to the museum, u18s free. We bring #RainLab, #RiversOfLoveAndMemory, conversations & care for river.

Rivers of Britain find their land form bodies through artistic interpretation, paint and puppetry! River Avon joins Old Father Thames & Lady Wye...soon River Cam? A film for #Avonia #riversoffilmfestival in Cambridge. Do contribute to the crowdfunder www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/creating-a...

We are thrilled to support friends at Cambridge Retrofit Hub. Rainwater Harvesting event 9th July 5:15 - 6:15pm. Attend in person, [email protected]. View a 3000l rainwater system by RainwaterHarvesting.com before it's covered by driveway. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1469542253...

"Rain gardens make our cities more livable & aesthetically pleasing, as well as the air cooler & cleaner." Image by Chenyun Illustration & Animation BA at Cambridge School of Art. A roadside river on Kings Parade, complete with waterfalls. #illustratedSuDSBenefits #raingardens

Protecting & restoring natural landscapes should be at the centre of the UK’s drought strategy. #catchmentbasedapproach, #caba and working at the scale of a catchment. theconversation.com/how-restorin...

"Significant gaps exist in the current water licensing system. Some licences... permit volumes far higher than would be approved today. Others have no expiry dates or set volume limits at all." #waterscarcity www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rain gardens reduce flood risk by capturing & storing rainwater, which helps to relieve pressure on drains and reduce ponding & flooding. Two futures. Which do you choose: Business As Usual or SuDs? #SuDSBenefits By Joe illustration & Animation BA y1 @AngliaRuskin #flowersnotfloods #slowflow

Chesterton Fest today! At Rec! Brilliant kid bands, food, stalls from local businesses, science centre, games , enormous inflatables and entertainment! Celebrate your local community! Come find us - we have water to play and be cool with 💙💦 maps.app.goo.gl/awySbsVrYdfC...

Rain gardens aren't just for rain! A customer in Abbey, Cambridge, sent a photo of their #SlowFlow Rain Planter, this year full of flowers. Deep rain-fed planters maintain soil moisture, even through extended periods of hot dry weather. #slowflow #slowflowers #growwhatyoulike #SlowFlowersMovement

On 4th July join us for Water Table III - A day conference focused on the chalk aquifer. Join experts, researchers, and local water champions to talk about water www.eventbrite.com/e/water-tabl...

Be the rain while the rain's not here! Showing #Rainlab for the Logan's Meadow picnic today 12- 3

Beautiful and inspiring work from @nationaltrust.org.uk. Great Egrets and Cranes returning to the restored and rewetted #peat landscapes of #wickenfen #burwellfen. Peatlands like this one store more carbon than all the world's forests combined www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The common story of water scarcity frames Water as a noun. Water is a dance, a verb, a process. The more we slow it in the land the more there is in the land, for aquifer and life, and water cycle. How may we..shift from Water management to water participation? open.substack.com/pub/climatew...

Future water options with reps from farming, industry, government etc. showed up to listen, & advocate for nature, sustainable drainage & hydrated landscapes. ie let water into ground not just take it out. Day held by #wre at the glorious Orton Hall, an estate dating back to 1086.

Glorious morning with 100 other river lovers on a flotilla of punts, paddle boards, canoes and kayaks showing love for our #rivercam. Message to @anglianwater.bsky.social : try harder to #cleanitup! #camvalleyforum @sascampaigns.bsky.social #paddleoutprotest #puntandpaddleout

Help coordinate the plan for the #rivercam! @wildlifebcn.org is recruiting for a part-time catchment officer, closing May 19th. #chalkstreams #caba #cameo #ccp www.wildlifebcn.org/jobs/cam-cat...

One more day to fill in the gaps on this map! theriverstrust.org/take-action/...

Good summary of mayoral hustings (free tickets available, donations appreciated) from Resilience Web. We urge candidates to follow London and other C40 mayors with a strong water strategy, including use of SuDS for water quality, biodiversity & amenity resilienceweb.org.uk/news/cp-mayo...

Join #camvalleyforum & friends of local rivers for a Punt and Paddle-Out on the most iconic part of the River Cam on Saturday May 17th, as part of a national day of action by @sascampaigns.bsky.social to demand an end to sewage pollution www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/punt-and-p...

So happy to be in the 106th @cnhs1857.bsky.social Conversazione. How often do you get to take part in the 106th of anything? Many more happy returns! Lots of lovely people got to play with our #RainLab to see how different vegetation affects the infiltration rate of rain. See you in the 107th 😸