#fixingbrokenrivers

Love the Lea festival! 

What a lovely day it became even though it started off with som heavy showers of rain.

The water body booth was well visited and the rivercities performance a magic ending to a festival that brought together both people and the thoughts how to make a more sustainable ecosystem with the river Lea in focus.

Thank you who showed up and made it a beautiful community event!

" I like working for the Canal and River trust that is basically it.

I grew up in Northfolk which is very green, and here in London it is not so many green spaces.

I am attracted to water, I am out in the sun and I get to talk to nice people. I have learnt so much from this job."

" I prefer living alone. Living on this boat is quiet and intimate and when I step out I am suddenly out on the street. I have lived in a boat for three years.

Me and my friend swim in this river."

" My friend lives close to here so I ride my bike to her along the river because it is calmer. This place also reminds me of my hometown Milan. It feels like home! "

" We are working next to the river. We saw rats swimming in there in this morning. It is horrible, so we do our best not to fall in there.

Yesterday we spotted a boat sinking.

Our job is to put spikes on the bridge for stopping people from make graffiti ." 

" I learned how to swim in the river Lea. It was very badly polluted back in these days.

What doesn't kill you make you stronger they say!

A year ago I stopped drinking the tap-water here though. It made me really sick in combination with my medication. I used to puke a lot from it. Nobody drinks the water from around here, the pipes most be over 100 years old at least.

I don't go out much but I have my garden here that needs the water, and my African cats. Today is a good day, I am not feeling sick.