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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.
Case studies
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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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Upper Mersey Catchment: Collaborative Monitoring Focused on Citizen Science
Find out more: Upper Mersey Catchment: Collaborative Monitoring Focused on Citizen ScienceThe Mersey Rivers Trust chose the RIver Tame to establish long-term citizen science monitoring programme using River Guardians and as a target for urban river restoration through collaboration.
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Voices of volunteers and farmers
Find out more: Voices of volunteers and farmersThe Wye and Usk Foundation (WUF) is a Rivers Trust that improves the ecology, habitat and water quality of the Rivers Wye and Usk in…
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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, co-developed with the River Wey Trust
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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.
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Protected: Westcountry Rivers Trust: lessons in scaling citizen science
Find out more: Protected: Westcountry Rivers Trust: lessons in scaling citizen scienceThere is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Western Sussex River Guardians
Find out more: Western Sussex River GuardiansA pioneering citizen science initiative making waves in the Arun and Western Streams Catchment.
