by Freya Stacey | Sep 3, 2026
How healthy are Westcountry rivers? Why the numbers need a closer look How healthy are the rivers and freshwater bodies of the Westcountry? The Environment Agency has just published its latest data on the ecological condition of England’s rivers and surface...
by Freya Stacey | Sep 3, 2026
💧 A major freshwater citizen science dataset is now open access! ‘Westcountry Rivers Trust Citizen Science Investigations (CSI) – Complete Dataset’ is now available here: https://lnkd.in/e4wvf_BU! 🔎 Westcountry Rivers Trust has been running a water...
by Freya Stacey | Sep 3, 2026
In the Westcountry we have all the water we need, just not when and where we need it. We have just experienced one of the wettest winters on record, followed by one of the driest summers in over 150 years. If there was ever a demonstration of our changing climate,...
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...
