Catchment Systems
Thinking Cooperative

Making sure that people count, at the heart of rivers’ recovery

Through innovative prototyping and collaboration, we are working together to test and build a national framework to support communities and citizen scientists, decision-makers, scientists, and industry to collect and combine data from community monitoring along with other datasets to deliver improvements to the water environment.

Projects powered by CaSTCo bring together expertise and buy-in from more than 30 organisations nationwide, including community and local partnerships, water companies, environmental charities, regulators, technical experts, academics, and the private sector.

Audits tools and methods
so that we can set expectations and
trust data quality

Builds pathways for data sharing
so that data can be better integrated into decision-making

Provides resources to communities
so they can understand best practices and participate meaningfully

This project is funded by Ofwat’s Innovation Fund and led by The Rivers Trust and United Utilities.

Anglian (Lark & Wensum)

Arun & Rother

Beane

Northwest (Upper Mersey, Ribble, Lune)

Severn (Teme)

Tamar

Thames (Salmon, Dollis Brooks)

Tyne (Ouseburn)

Usk

Key resources will be published here in Autumn 2024.
Questions? Email castco@theriverstrust.org