by Freya Stacey | Jul 29, 2026
We’ve been making great progress with our Water Net Gain demonstration SMART POND. We’ve converted an old and no longer used dirty water storage feature into a prototype smart pond, which can store excess rainfall and then release it remotely to the river network when...
by Freya Stacey | Jul 1, 2026
Testing the Reliability of Citizen Science Phosphate Data Author: Fran Rowney, Senior Data, Evidence and Engagement Officer Earlier in June, we held an interactive session with citizen science volunteers, centred on a live, controlled experiment to test the...
by Freya Stacey | Jul 1, 2026
Author: Doug Munford, Head of Resilience and Communities On Saturday the 20th of June we took the Engagement inflatable to central park in Plymouth for the Big Green Trail, run by Climate Connections and Plymouth City Council. We developed the engagement inflatable...
by Freya Stacey | Jun 3, 2026
💧 Nature-based solutions need farmers. But are farmers ready to partner? Our Water Net Gain project manager has written a guest blog for the Ofwat Water Innovation Fund sharing six lessons from our national farmer engagement programme and they’re relevant to...
by Freya Stacey | Jun 3, 2026
Author: Andy King, University of Exeter New research, from the University of Exeter, suggests that chalk-stream salmon could be classified as a new subspecies within Salmo salar. The work, led by Dr Andrew King and Prof. Jamie Stevens, involved the genetic...
