Water Sensitive Cambridge

Join us for WATER SENSITIVE STREETS FOR CLIMATE RESILIENCE - a walk through some projects in East Chesterton on 8th March at 2pm for Cambridge Living Streets, meet at Stourbridge Common end of Green Dragon Bridge. maps.app.goo.gl/d9mCHuw7o1Bp...
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3 speakers: JJ Waters, associate landscape architect, LDA design Clara Todd, Water Sensitive Cambridge @watersencam Anne Miller, Carbon Neutral Cambridge Feb 25th 5-7pm - doors open at 4:30. Get Free tickets on Eventbrite

Join us at the Guildhall for a discussion about the flood risk in Cambridge and how it will be affected by the climate crisis. Cambridge Resilience Web

How Resilient is Cambridge re: Flooding

Guildhall, 5-7 pm - February 25th
Doors at 4:30 for networking
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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...

Thanks for the intro @susanwabuda.bsky.social! Nice to meet you @neorsd.org!

Fulbourn Primary in #fulbourn is one of seven schools with #raingardens in #sudsincambridgeschools project for 2025/26. We create spaces for water & nature to support the next generation of eco-citizens through hands-on education and play.
More info: watersencam.co.uk/projects/sud... 4/4

🌱 We’ll be ready to plant the moment the soil wakes up. This will give our native species the best start in life, helping the plants catch slow, spread, and sink the rainwater! 3/4

By breaking ground now, we ensure these gardens are ready to capture those spring showers before they can overwhelm the drains. 2/4

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

We’ve loved seeing people pause, ask questions, and rethink how rain moves through our towns and gardens.

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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

We’re proud to stay true to local production:
🌿 #SlowFlow planters made in collaboration with Phoenix Trust, and designed, assembled and installed by us
💧 Water butts by Ecosure in Melbourne

Progress update: we’ve completed installations in 3 out of 7 schools 😊
Work will resume in spring, with all schools completed by July.
Funded by Dept for education, @camcitco.bsky.social and @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk — thank you for making this possible

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

Why is the River Cam so murky? - Cam Valley Forum Tuesday 2nd Dec, 6pm Newnham Sports and Social Club, Hardwick Street CB3 9JA Dr Mike Foley of Cam Valley Forum, has been investigating the water quality of the River Cam for many years. He has been ex...

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...

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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. #riversoffilm

Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey. 1 October 2025 at 18:15. Screening followed by an expert panel on watershed restoration and nature-based solutions. at the Babbage Lecture Theatre, David Attenborough Building, CB2 3QZ. Part of the Cambridge 'Rivers of Film' Festival.

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...
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Pembroke auditorium - audience

Linton village hall - audience

Storeys field Eddington - audience

Museum of Cambridge - audience

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 💙💦