Acknowledgements

This free course was written by David Gowing, Richard Holliman, Emma Rothero, Olivia Nelson, Yoseph Araya and Sarah Davies.

This course was funded by Anglian Water’s ‘Get River Positive’ grant in 2024/25.

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