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The Rivers Trust’s NFM Hub wins the Esri UK Customer Success Award

  • The Rivers Trust
The collaborative platform has been recognised for allowing more than 50 catchment-scale or community-led projects to manage and share their actions and accelerate the delivery of nature-based solutions at a national scale.

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Spring Big River Watch: your river health survey results

  • Emma Brisdion
  • Blog
In May, we ran our second ever Big River Watch – a citizen science event where we invite everyone in the UK and Ireland to be part of a free and easy survey of river health.

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Water companies launch new live sewage spill maps

  • Matthew Woodard
Several water companies finally launched their own live sewage spill maps, an important step but we still have some way to go before we have a full picture of the storm overflows issue.

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Empowering communities for action in catchment management: A head, heart, and hands holistic approach

  • Matthew Woodard
The Rivers Trust All-Ireland Director Mark Horton recently had the opportunity to give a presentation on Empowering Communities for Action in Catchment Management at the Northern Ireland Environment Forum 2024.

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2023’s Sewage Deluge: New Data Highlights the Urgency of Our Fight For Better Rivers

  • Emma Brisdion
  • News
Today the Environment Agency released the storm overflow spill data from water companies in England for 2023, and Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water have released the same for Wales. The headlines paint a devastating picture of rivers increasingly battered by sewage. 

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Crossing an ocean for our rivers: Jake’s Atlantic row

  • The Rivers Trust
At the end of next year, data scientist and rower Jake Still plans to embark on an almighty rowing challenge while fundraising to support the restoration of his beloved rivers back home.

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Resilient Glenderamackin: achieving nature-based solutions at catchment scale through innovative funding

  • Matthew Woodard
Celebrating The Rivers Trust partnership with West Cumbria Rivers Trust and Nature Finance on one of the country’s largest catchment-based projects, unlocking innovative funding through the pioneering platform Projects for Nature and Lloyds Banking Group.

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The Rivers Trust partner with British Rowing

  • Emma Brisdion
  • News
The Rivers Trust are in Henley-on-Thames to announce the launch of the Rowing Clean Water Partnership, with British Rowing, River Action and Aquascope, dedicated to cleaning up rivers in Britain.

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Bring on the river bathing waters!

  • Matthew Woodard
The Government has just published its list of proposed new bathing water sites for public consultation, and it includes a record-breaking number of river sites. Of the 27 popular swimming spots brought forward, a whopping 22 of them are inland and along rivers!

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How unhealthy are our rivers? Read the latest State of Our Rivers Report

  • Matthew Woodard
Discover just how our rivers are faring and the actions that we need to take in our updated State of Our Rivers Report.

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