School Program takes 980 students to the river
Schools in Haringey, Enfield and Hackney have taken advantage of Thames21’s free school program and brought their classes out to their local rivers this Autumn!…
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New reed bed helping to improve water quality on the Salmons Brook
Our latest work in Grovelands Park is helping to improve the water quality of Grovelands Park Lake by naturally slowing down and treating water from…
Only Rain Down the Drain
Drain marking is a great way of spreading the word that our street drains lead straight to our local rivers. Road drains were designed to…
New music release to raise awareness of the capital’s polluted rivers
Surface Tension, a new music project drawing from both art and science, seeks to creatively explore and document pollution along London’s second largest waterway, the…
Newly planted rainscapes will improve the quality of Enfield’s waterways
Leading London waterway charity Thames21 and the London Borough of Enfield have planted several thousand wetland plants as part of two rainscapes which will help…
Testing times for the health of Haringey’s Moselle River
We’re carrying out detailed water quality testing of the Moselle River as part of the Love the Lea campaign. The river runs through Haringey and…
Thames21 and HSBC ready to fix broken rivers
East London’s broken rivers1 are one step closer to being fixed with the announcement of a 4-year Thames21 project to tackle urban pollution in the…
River of Death, why fish died in the River Lea, and what can be done
Thousands of fish died in the River Lea last week after rain washed the accumulated pollution from East London’s roads into the river. The River Lea…
Love the Lea July Campaign Update
Rescuing Pymmes Park Lake Theo Thomas A blocked drain spilled raw sewage into Pymmes Park Lake last November, dropping dissolved oxygen levels to zero. Since…
The road to river destruction is paved
It is changes like this that see our rivers damaged; the gradual but ultimately large-scale loss of small green spaces like front gardens. While urban…