New £2m project to help boost health of UK rivers
A national project set to improve the water quality of rivers in the North East and across the UK has successfully won £2 million worth of funding to progress.
Together with its partners, Northumbrian Water is creating the UK’s first, free, open-source digital tool, which will help people and organisations understand the health of the nation’s rivers and how to improve them.
The project, called OCI³ (Open Catchment Intelligence, Insights & Integration), secured support through water regulator Ofwat’s Innovation Fund, as part of its Water Breakthrough Challenge.
Read more at: https://www.watermagazine.co.uk/2026/06/19/new-2m-project-to-help-boost-health-of-uk-rivers/