'To the River' Public Art Consultation
'To the River' is described as a new public artwork commissioned to celebrate and promote the story of the River Cam in Cambridge, as part of an artist residency on the river.
News and Events
Northstowe Phase 3A for 4000 houses aproved
Councillors at South Cambs District Council vote to proceed with this development despite clear evidence of environmental harm.
Wednesday 23rd February 2022, 19.30 to 21.00 GMT, James Boyce
Fighting for the Fens: Commemorating 500 years of resistance to 'progress'
James Boyce, author of Imperial Mud, explains how past fights against large-scale enclosures and drainage projects characterised the Fens.
Friends of the Cam Object to the Draft Local Plan
Friends of the Cam have sent a letter of objection to the Draft Local Plan. The consultation closes on the 13th December.
The state of British rivers: out of sight, out of mind?
In his talk for Friends of the Cam, Professor Steve Ormerod considered some of the pressures on rivers, from climate change, legacy pollutants to microplastics, and some of the consequences for river organisms. The talk also considered some of the benefits of actions that can be taken to reduce impacts, for example through regulation or sensitive catchment management.
So is there Water for Further Growth in Cambridge?
14 the August 2021
The Environment Agency is asked to clarify their position on the viability of supplying further growth from the Cam chalk aquifer following latest response from Stephen Kelly, writes Monica Bijok Hone
Water Supply Questions Remain Unanswered
August 1st 2021
As the anniversary of 'that letter' from the Environment Agency approaches, we still have no answers to questions about how growth in Cambridge and South Cambs can be sustainably supplied with water, writes Monica Bijok Hone
Rivers in the News
The age of extinction
'Laws of nature: could UK rivers be given the same rights as people?
As more and more countries grant natural features or ecosystems legal personhood, the UK’s fight to pass nature rights laws is quietly gaining pace.' Guardian Saturday 17th July 2021
RIVER POLLUTION INVESTIGATION GOES LIVESTREAM
Environmentalists George Monbiot and Fanny Armstrong expose the slow death our rivers by pollution.
