Water Sensitive Cambridge
@watersencam.bsky.social
Reconnecting people, land & water in Cambridge, UK.
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#suds #FlowersNotFloods #PlantTheRain
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#suds #FlowersNotFloods #PlantTheRain
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...
www.watersencam.co.uk/services/row...
January 26, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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...
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
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
January 5, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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 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 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
January 4, 2026 at 6:21 AM
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 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
💦 Let's #KeepTheRainOutOfTheDrain in 2026
December 31, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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
💦 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...
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...
camvalleyforum.uk
December 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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...
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December 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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...
November 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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
November 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
@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. 💙💦
🧽 Sponge, baby, sponge to deal with flooding risks
@alastairchisholm.bsky.social on the steps the government needs to take to ensure we can buy and live in homes without fear of flooding.
Read it here 👇
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@alastairchisholm.bsky.social on the steps the government needs to take to ensure we can buy and live in homes without fear of flooding.
Read it here 👇
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Sponge, baby, sponge to deal with flooding risks | Letters
Letters: Alastair Chisholm and Laurie Wilcockson on the steps the government needs to take to ensure we can buy and live in homes without fear of flooding
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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...
October 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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...
Review of Water Efficiency Standards in the Building Regulations 2010
- Defra
- Citizen Space
This site contains consultations that are run by Defra.
consult.defra.gov.uk
October 6, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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...
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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...
October 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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
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
October 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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
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
'Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey' is shown as part of the #riversoffilm festival. 💙💦 Tickets: cambridgeppf.org/etn/screenin...
@cambridgeppf.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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
'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/
September 30, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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...
Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/trans...
September 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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...
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!
September 25, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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 💙💦
ℹ️ bit.ly/roffest 💙💦
September 24, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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 💙💦
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!
September 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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
Main: 23 Sept - 4th Oct. cambridgeppf.org/riversoffilm/
Tickets at no cost or at affordable prices, thanks to our event partners & #RiverCamCAN
August 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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
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
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
River of Film Festival seeks volunteers - Water Sensitive Cambridge
The Cambridge Rivers of Film Festival 23rd Sept – 4th Oct We are partnering with Cambridge Past, Present & Future to bring an exciting programme of films, workshops and other events focused on rivers,...
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August 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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
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...
August 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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...
Cambridge sewage plant move halted after funding withdrawn
Anglian Water wants to replace its current facility, but the government withdrew funding.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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...
RRN - D1
This is "RRN - D1" by Opus Independents on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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August 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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...
Climate change could see more trees in cities to tackle heatwaves - BBC News
Scientists say air temperatures could be reduced by 5C by planting more trees.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 26, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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...