The Rivers Trust

The latest episode of Rambling About Rivers is all about the return of an iconic species to the River Severn. The twaite shad was a common sight in the Severn hundreds of years ago. Each spring, twaite shad would migrate up the river in their droves - but weirs built…

The Rivers Trust welcomes the proposed amendments to the Environment Bill announced by Defra today, which focus on tackling storm overflows and sewage pollution. The Environment Bill will now include legal duties to tackle sewage discharges into rivers, first announced by Defra in March. Those duties are: a duty on…

This week, we have welcomed leading soft drinks company Britvic onto our Water Stewardship Programme. Along with some of our local member Trusts, we’ll be working with Britvic to improve river health and water quality near their production sites. Our Water Stewardship Service enables businesses to work effectively with the…

Michelle Walker, our Deputy Technical Director, is currently in the midst of training for the Wild Dart swim. Follow Michelle's journey in this new blog series, written by her as she braves the cold water in preparation for this mammoth wild swim. As if she doesn’t already do enough for…

Hi everyone, I am Kieran and I have just become an Ambassador for the Rivers Trust. Influenced by some of my day-to-day work as a graduate scientist at BMT, I have decided to write my first blog about flood management, in particular natural flood management (NFM). I hope you enjoy…