To help predict and reduce the impact of flooding, we're investigating how rain, river and waste water move through Eastbourne and south Wealden

Climate change is challenging the way we live. We're working with local organisations and communities to explore how to be more sustainable using water, smarter about how we manage it, and help everyone to be prepared for flooding and other impacts.

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Alleyway between two gardens, with a hump in the path where it runs over the Bourne Stream.

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Blue Heart – A journey along the Bourne from source to sea 

Much of Eastbourne’s identity is informed by the Bourne, an ancient water source that threads its way across (mostly under)...

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Business Partnership Fund from Southern Water

Has your business got a great idea to save water but not the funds to make it happen? Water is...

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Lawn covered in buttercup flowers.

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The nature cure: how time outdoors transforms our memory, imagination and logic

Without engaging with natural environments, our brains cease to work well. As the new field of environmental neuroscience proves, exposure...

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Illustration of a small house with a water butt, and a person filling a watering can from the water butt tap.

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Harnessing the rain

Households in a trial area of Eastbourne at high risk of surface water flooding are being offered slow-release water butts...

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Modelling and Adapting

Blue Heart project partners recently swapped their usual places of work – from flooded ditches, spare bedrooms or open offices...

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Blue Heart documentary

This is an overview of how water behaves in and around Eastbourne and south Wealden. Residents of the area talk...

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