Friends of the Cam will be joining other groups from Cambridge and across the country on October 26th  to demand clean, plentiful and healthy water in our rivers and seas for all species, including humans, and to end the profit driven pollution which drives water companies. There is a local bus with subsidised tickets (£8) - please contact us for details - or join us on the train/rail replacement service! More details of the march for clean water here. We will post local details in the run up to the march.

⁨⁩Water companies are profiting from pollution! Come and join Friends of the Cam and others participating in an afternoon of outreach and family fun demanding that Anglian Water #ActNow to stop polluting our rivers. 
 Saturday 14 September, 11.30 – 15.00
 Jesus Lock Bridge, Jesus Green by the river Cam, CB4 3BD 
 Samba lessons; block printing - bring a t-shirt; throw poos into a giant toilet; meet our super-size poos; survey board and information stall.  

Friends of the Cam is one of four groups working on the “Meeting of Rivers” programme. Its inaugural workshop is being co-hosted by the Friends of the Cam on the 19th and 20th of September at St Lukes Church, Victoria Road, Cambridge. The workshop on the 19th is free, but please book your place with Friends of the Cam. 

The Public Inquiry on the relocation of Milton waste water treatment plant is entering its 3rd phase. Save Honey Hill is exposing the weakness of Anglian Water's case, but needs to raise money to retain their impressive legal representation. If you can, please donate here. 

Friends of the Cam was delighted to host Tony Eva's award winning new film, 'Pure Clean Water', in December. The film demonstrates how the Cam and its tributaries - a rare chalk stream system - have been exploited to the brink of extinction. The film played to a full house of people who are increasingly concerned about the impact of growth on the river system, as well as on green belt land, farming and people's wellbeing in general.

Swedish climate academic Martin Hultman was in Cambridge on Saturday 30th September and Sunday 1st October, during which time we had an informal discussion and a walk along the river Cam. Martin was also interviewed by the Cambridge Independent in a piece: Masculinity 'weaponised' by the far right says Swedish academic ahead of Cambridge talk.

Friends of the Cam campaign for an unpolluted river, against over-abstraction from it, and the unsustainable growth in buildings and infrastructure that impact on both. Designating short stretches of rivers may lead to some very limited local improvement of water quality, at the expense of water quality elsewhere. Friends of the Cam will be opposing the DBA application in the consultation for reasons given below. You can respond to the on-line  consultation here.