Pure Clean Water

Screening as part of the Winterbourne Festival

Followed by a panel discussion hosted by Natasha Padbury, Director at Love our Ouse, with Peter King, Director at Ouse and Adur Rivers Trust, Jan Knowlson, Biodiversity Officer at South Downs National Park, Christopher Bibb, Senior Specialist Green Consultancy at Lewes and Eastbourne Councils and Helen Meade, CEO at Railway Land Wildlife Trust

Is the Cambridge growth phenomenon about to be derailed by a shortage of water? For 250 years a chalk stream, diverted into the town centre, provided Cambridge with drinking water. It was a hugely successful public health initiative, supported by both town and university.

Today, pumping from underground chalk aquifers brings potable water at great convenience. But in the process springs are drying up and precious chalk streams are disappearing. Water companies, regulators, businesses, land owners, consumers and government have overseen a developing groundwater emergency.

Can these groups come together to ensure that Cambridge has a reliable water supply without further damaging the environment?

'A brilliant, passionate, poetic piece of activist film-making' – Robert Macfarlane