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Markwandeling 2025, dag 2
Geschreven door Tami de Lange Maandag 10 juni 2025 Langs het Merkske (17 km)De tweede etappe van de Markwandeling start vandaag bij het Merkske, een belangrijke zijrivier van de Mark én een mooi voorbeeld van een natuurlijk watersysteem.We beginnen samen met de groep...
Markwandeling 2025, dag 1
Geschreven door Tami de Lange Maandag 9 juni 2025 Een veelbelovende start! (18 km)Wat een fantastische eerste etappe van de Markwandeling vandaag, georganiseerd vanuit het 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘂 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺𝗴𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗮𝘀! Met een groep van 11 enthousiaste wandelaars begonnen we in...
Journal de la Marche de l’Escaut 2025
23 mai, jour 32, Hoofdplaat à Flessingue (12 km) Nos derniers kilomètres le long de l'Escaut, l'Escaut occidental, comme on l'appelle ici.Nous avons eu droit à une excursion en bateau entre Breskens et Flessingue pour observer les phoques. Malgré la marée haute et le...
Scheldt Walk 2025 Diary
23 May, day 32, Hoofdplaat to Vlissingen (12 km) Our last kilometres along the Scheldt, Westerschelde, how they call her here.We were treated by a seal excursion on the boat between Breskens to Vlissingen. Despite the high tide and the wind making the water even...
HUB IN THE SPOTLIGHT: MIJN STADSTUIN
On Overcoming the First-Measurement Barrier & Cultivating Neighborhood Water Advocacy at 4m Below Sea Level. “Let’s hope the water unfreezes a bit by the time you get here!” Robin van Asperen, founder of Mijn Stadstuin, shoots us a photo of the iced-over...
HUB IN THE SPOTLIGHT: SLO Beaver Brigade
Interview with Audrey Taub, Executive Director of SLO Beaver Brigade "If you’ve got beavers in your area, recruit them to your Drinkable Rivers project – they’re the original water stewards, after all. And if you don’t have them, ask yourself why.” That’s Audrey Taub,...
Soft launch Mayors for a Drinkable Thames
22 November 2024, KingstonOne of the Thames Councilors, James Manthel, co-initiated Mayors for a drinkable Thames and convened the first gathering on the beautiful Thames Venturer riverboat, in Kingston Upon Thames last Friday 22 November 2024. Inspired by the Thames...
HUB IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Tierpark Nordhorn | Educating the Next Generation of (Citizen) Scientists
Interview taken by Anna Riley-Shepard“The younger kids come for the animals, the older kids come for the river measurements”, jokes Rebecca Schulte-Iserlohe of Tierpark Nordhorn’s “Zoo School”. We sat down with Rebecca and her colleague Lisa Giese to hear how Tierpark...
DO WE MEASURE UP? Testing the Validity of our Drinkable Rivers Measurement Kit Data Against Other Citizen Science and Lab-Grade Materials
Clara Valdez Research | Blogpost written together with Anna Riley-ShepardDip, shake, read, repeat… nitrate concentration: zero?Kneeling in the grass by the confluence of three irrigation canals into the river Aa, I tried to wrap my head around why my Drinkable Rivers...
Tracking the Health of our Rivers: a first overview and potential patterns found by our community
Blogpost and infographics by Sandra de Vries | Data analysis by Grace Saville | Survey design by Camille JanssenSince the opening of the Drinkable Rivers Citizen Science Programme in 2022, we have been able to grow into 65 hubs in over 22 countries. These hubs have...
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