door Lizette Pelikaan | 16/06/2026 | ActionCommunity, Annual Gathering, Mayors
The eighth “Mayors for Drinkable Meuse” gathering took place on May 29, 2026, in Maastricht, The Netherlands. The focus on tributaries, such as the Geer / Jeker*, appeared on the agenda for the first time: a sign that the Meuse River basin is being viewed in an...
door Lizette Pelikaan | 21/04/2026 | ActionCommunity, CitizenScience, Featured Hub, Hub
“It was the students’ idea to become a hub”, recounts Dr. Steve Simonovic, Head of Chemistry at Haileybury Boarding and Day School. “My job is simply to facilitate a continuity to it, to ringfence that time for them.” Steve runs a highly active Drinkable Rivers hub...
door Lizette Pelikaan | 17/02/2026 | ActionCommunity, CitizenScience, Featured Hub, Hub
“Early on at Woodstock Land Conservancy, the focus was on the mountaintops. But now we’ve realized that in addition to scenic vistas, we also have to go low – low in a good way, as in down to the riverside.” We’re speaking with Miranda Javid, whose role as...
door Lizette Pelikaan | 16/12/2025 | ActionCommunity, CitizenScience, Meuse, WatershedMeuse
Hi! I’m Pim, 28 years old, and since August I’ve been active as a volunteer at PULSAQUA through Milieudefensie —an organization committed to environmental protection and raising awareness about Dutch environmental legislation. Within Milieudefensie, I’m following a...
door Lizette Pelikaan | 18/11/2025 | ActionCommunity, Thames, WatershedThames
5 November 2025, Maidenhead We look back fondly on the successful launch of the Mayors for a Drinkable Thames campaign, which brought together over 50 mayors, councillors, scientists and stakeholders united by a shared ambition: to make the Thames drinkable again....
door Lizette Pelikaan | 14/10/2025 | ActionCommunity, CitizenScience, Featured Hub, Hub
Flowing with Community to Reclaim River Health. “The stream running through our district is called the Rákos, which means crayfish in Hungarian,” explains Balázs Kozác, founder of the neighborhood environmental organization ZÖLD XVII – or Green 17, referencing...
