Mary Manandhar

This blog celebrates “River Tours: the Avon” while reflecting on what might come next: a more locally rooted, ecologically imaginative creative journey that gives voice to the river herself and the more-than-human life she sustains. Did you catch the tufted-textile mapped, performance-based event called “River Tours: the Avon” at various locations over the summer? If … Read more

On 6th September 2025, River Hope’s convenor attended an inspiring event “Voice of Water” at the Tate Modern in London. This was a transnational conversation on the rights of rivers and oceans with reflections on how to rebuild celebratory connections and kinship with land and waterways, and meaningfully include and represent the voices of diverse … Read more

RiverActionUK recently published its River Rescue Kit. Using a clear and easy-to-follow format, the River Rescue Kit: Several informative videos are available, including those below on: Have a look, use and share to inform, inspire and mobilise your community and help protect, restore and respect the water bodies and catchments where you live. Thank you, … Read more

River Hope celebrates the power of creativity, including through verse, to inspire, move and mobilize. Robert Macfarlane is a celebrated Nature writer, Professor of English Literature and the Environmental Humanities and Fellow of Emmanuel College Cambridge. For World Poetry Day in March 2025, he wrote the poem ‘Riversong”. Hear him narrate the poem in this … Read more

UN Water is the United Nations agency dedicated to water and sanitation. It publishes a flagship report every year on World Water Day, exploring the same theme as World Water Day. This report gives policy recommendations to decision-makers by offering best practices and in-depth analyses. The 2025 edition is titled ‘Water towers: mountains and glaciers’. Stratford-on-Avon … Read more

Today and for every day for the last (at least) 3.5 billion years, across Earth’s rivers, lakes and oceans, water has been moving – flowing, nourishing, connecting. To honour water, and to send out a global call for better stewardship and love for water, a new film has been released on World Water Day, called “Water … Read more