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...

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

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/

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

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...

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

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

Care about water and how it's "managed" in the UK?Last few days to respond to this consultation: consult.defra.gov.uk/independent-...

bit.ly/3DKLbOH For the love of River - don't forget to come to the excellent film Rave On the Avon on Saturday 3:30pm at the Arts Picturehouse - advance tickets available. With a Q&A at the end with the film director and local water/river campaigners.

Discovering Newmarket's forgotten chalk stream and the local people tracing its path in light and love

Rave On the Avon Film / Q&A with director Charlotte Sawyer and local clean water campaigners Anne Miller cam valley forum, Ruth Sapsed & chaired by James M-W @sky_larking. March 22nd 3:30pm, @CamPicturehouse. @CambridgePPF Get your ticket: bit.ly/3DKLbOH

Wild swimming and designated bathing water regulations reform is high on the agenda. Debate yesterday in parliament, #southcambs MP @pippaheylings.bsky.social gave a brilliant speech. Watch the debate here. parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

New #slowflow rain planters outside of 110-113 Fallowfield Cambridge. Grasses, ferns, herbs & flowers feed pollinators, while preventing 100s of litres of stormwater from overwhelming pipe & ponding at Fen Rd. Low cost #suds retrofit for climate resilient streets. #pebblefund

💙 Charlotte Sawyer's celebration of the Bristol community, life and wild swimming in Cambridge! March 22 3:30, #picturehousegreenscreen, and #riversoffilm The panel features fimmakers & local water loving groups. Continue conversation in the cafe afterwards. 💦 www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...

Day 1 complete! Our friends at Phoenix delivered four gorgeous handmade planters to us in Fallowfield, ready to transform into #slowflow rain planters. After a day of sun, rain, mud, we'll soon be ready to plant leafy shade-loving beings here #raingardens #flowersnotfloods #pebblefund

Watch this. The story of how California got screwed over for its water by a billionaire couple who are more commonly known for philanthropy, glitzy hollywood parties and quirky advertising. www.pistachiowars.com

Proud to introduce this new project by @watersencam.bsky.social in Cambridge. Funded by #PebbleFund for biodiversity, we'll be installing six of our #SlowFlow planters in the catchment of Fallowfield's surface water drain pipe. Not only reducing floods, bringing back nature 🌻 youtu.be/82bCVmH0GWI

To help you get through #BlueMonday, here's a picture of some gorgeous purple wands of woodland sage being enjoyed by a carder bee in the Fallowfield Rain Gardens last year. Whatever is getting you down today, remember life persists. There will be spring.

Last panel session of the brilliant Rewilding Futures conference right here in Cambridge. Two days of inspirational talks and workshops from global practitioners, by Citizen Zoo.

The trials of England's first granted inland river bathing water site (2020) Ilkley Wharf. Last chance to achieve improvement.

We are sad - but not at all surprised - that the River Cam at Sheep's Green was classified as "Poor". 53% of new inland river Bathing Water sites for 2024, just over half also received "poor".

Sorry electric car owners, you too. A car is a car, tyres are still tyres. The damage we do on the living world, especially our rivers, is shocking. Now, what are we going to do about it?

The UK government should run a public information campaign about the facts of Climate Change. Please sign and share; at 100,000 signatures, this petition will be considered for debate in Parliament. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Industrial chicken farming is killing the River Wye, and it could kill the beautiful River Wissey too if Cranswick megafarm in Norfolk gets built. youtube.com/shorts/5U5NP...

How may we #slowtheflow and grow #flowersnotfloods? A day of #rainlab demonstrations and chat at Phoenix Trust Christmas event in #milton!

Panel discussion with the brilliant @jobradley.bsky.social of Stormwater Shepherds UK at #sudstheatre at #floodex with an impassioned plea not just for installing #SuDS but maintaining SuDS...long term often left out of the planning and costing of projects. #schedule3 #susdrain

#suds #sustrain at #floodex. Coordinate, collaborate, consistency, keep on going! The importance and benefit of making places for water and trees as well as houses in new developments with Bill Blackledge of 2B Landscape Consultancy Ltd.

We need law, we need policy Holly Smith presenting some incredible work on #surfacewaterstrategy #climateresilience #ciria #sudsforschools across London. big and holistic use of #suds #surfacewater. Innovation focuses on surface water. Greater London Authority. #suds #sustrain #ciria at #floodex.

"Nice theory - but does it work?" Yes it does 🌼💦🐝 Small neighbourhood projects in existing green spaces Creates more flood-resilient and nature-friendly places. Here's a little film celebrating the first 6 months of the Fallowfield Rain Gardens. #flowersnotfloods

The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at UEA published the following excellent report in Oct 2024. It can be found here. awinnovationhub.co.uk/wp-content/u... It goes a long way towards describing the challenges the Fens face in the next 50 to 75 years.

Talks, walks, films and workshops to be with water otherwise in our water-scarce and chalky catchment...Looking back at our event with CIP and CRASSH. How may we build better relationships with water that are more meaningful & restorative?

💦 In just six months, we saved thousands of litres of road run-off from the drain. An ordinary grass verge near the River Cam in Cambridge is now a rain garden full of flowers 🌼! This supports biodiversity 🐝 while reducing river pollution & flooding. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i3M...

Proud to be part of the Cam & Ely Ouse Catchment Partnership collaboratively working for better health of our local water bodies. Citizen Science and road run-off pollution were the focus of this year's conference www.cameopartnership.org/cameo-confer...

Greetings! A tentative flutter in this Blue Sky space. We are a small group working toward a better relationship with water, with our head, heart and hands. Come plant the rain with us!

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