18 September 2012
ARK have won the prestigious UK Water Efficiency Awards ‘Best Community Led Project’ with their ‘Care for the Kennet’ campaign, which was run in partnership with Thames Water.
Campaigning to protect the long-term environmental health of this world-renown chalk stream, Care for the Kennet has helped educate 12,000 people in the Upper Kennet area about the link between their tap water and the river it comes from.
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Click here to download the press release.
10 September 2012
At the start of the new term pupils at Aldbourne and Ramsbury schools are celebrating their water-saving success with a cheque for £750 each. The two schools jointly won the Care for the Kennet Water Saving Competition run by Action for the River Kennet and Thames Water.Click here to download the press release.
05 July 2012
Action for the River Kennet's (ARK) Chairman Dr Geoffrey Findlay welcomed the
Parliamentary Environment Committee's Report on the Water White Paper published
today, 5 July 2012. He said "The Committee makes many of the points that ARK has
been pressing for, they clearly listened to our evidence when we visited Parliament earlier
this year. The report quotes our description of the Kennet as in "crisis" and uses an ARK
photograph of dead fish in on the Kennet's dry river bed. They argue for much more
urgency in reforming the abstraction regime in order to protect the environment, and like
us they call for the Government to introduce water metering much more vigorously"
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Click here to download the press release.
20 February 2012
Action for the River Kennet (ARK) is working with the local community and
Thames Water to help everybody to use less water through the Care for the
Kennet campaign.
In the Kennet Valley we have had drastically low rainfall for the last 18
months, with less rain and a dryer river even than in 1976. Unless we have
16 January 2012
Action for the River Kennet (ARK) hosted a visit to inspect the dry river bed at
Manton on Saturday morning (14 January). Claire Perry MP for Devizes was joined
by Charles Walker MP who chairs the All Party Parliamentary Angling Group,
and former Reading MP Martin Salter, who is now the campaigns director for
the Angling Trust. Action for the River Kennet was represented by Dr Geoffrey
Findlay, Martin Gibson, John Lawson and Charlotte Hitchmough. A group of
14 September 2011
Residents in Aldbourne and Ramsbury were outraged to receive a letter from Thames Water
proposing to abstract yet more water, telling them that the Ramsbury borehole ‘currently
provides more water than is needed for the local area’. The letters arrived as the BBC prepares to
broadcast Panorama on Monday 19th September featuring the River Kennet entitled ‘Drinking our
Rivers Dry’, and in the same week that the River Kennet was named by campaign group ‘Our
06 June 2011
Wiltshire’s River Kennet is the inspiration behind WWF-UK’s show garden at the Hampton
Court Flower Show this year. Built to celebrate WWF’s 50th anniversary, the garden
showcases the beauty and fragility of England’s chalk streams.
Earlier this year Action for the River Kennet invited garden designer Fiona Stephenson to
see the Kennet and explain what plants and animals make up the wildlife of a chalk
stream, and Fiona has built a garden inspired by her visit.
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Click here to download the press release.
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