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These stories showcase the great work that organisations and groups are doing around the country to embody the spirit of CaSTCo. They represent inspiration and concepts in practice. Projects explore themes of collaboration, community, and rigour in monitoring rivers.
Inspiration across the UK
Here we highlight where our demonstrator catchments are located as well as our featured case studies. CaSTCo is being applied more widely, and this is where we will begin to recognise those efforts.
If your organisation or project abides by CaSTCo principles and you’d like to share your story, please request to be added to our map.
List of case studies
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Earthwatch: Great UK Waterblitz
Find out more: Earthwatch: Great UK WaterblitzA country-wide blitz event empowers citizen scientists to record valuable insights in to freshwater trends across the UK.
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Severn: Citizen science bacteria testing
Find out more: Severn: Citizen science bacteria testingVolunteers helped in method benchmarking, trialling different bacteria methods, and providing insights on bacteria levels across the Teme catchment
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Thames21: EMPOWER Rivers
Find out more: Thames21: EMPOWER RiversIn the London demo (and beyond!), communities are taking action to improve the health of rivers.
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The Rivers Trust: Big River Watch
Find out more: The Rivers Trust: Big River WatchThe Big River Watch is a simple first step into citizen science, inviting people to take 15 minutes by the riverside and record what they see.
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Water Rangers: Community Lab at ZERO Guildford
Find out more: Water Rangers: Community Lab at ZERO GuildfordA novel approach to community-led bacterial monitoring in Guildford
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Wensum Catchment: citizen science helps resolve pollution issue
Find out more: Wensum Catchment: citizen science helps resolve pollution issueIn the Anglian Demo, a collaboration of partners created an effective ecosystem to collect actionable citizen science data, solving local issues and demonstrating both rigour and effective channels for data to action.
