Amanda Scott
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 25 Feb
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It should be safe to drink in and to swim in for us and all the species with whom we share our beautiful blue peril of a watery planet.
And as we all know, it isn't.
It isn't because our system values profit over the vibrancy of life.
It isn't because people in suits have found that if they treat our rivers as open sewers and our oceans as waste dumps, they can get away with it.
It isn't because for way too long we have all believed the stories that say there is no alternative and this is the way the world has to be.
But the masks are coming off, and activism is increasingly being seen as an act of radical, unnecessary resistance that can bring people together, bridging across the false, toxic, cultural divides that the establishment creates so that we fight ourselves, instead of working together towards a world founded on different values.
The push for clean water is one of the most unifying drives that we have,
It doesn't matter where you are in the political spectrum, you do not vote for sewage to be poured into your rivers, for the dead zones in the oceans to grow and join up, for the rain to be full of forever toxins, so that some suit in a company C-suite can buy themselves a new private jet and an invitation to Jeffrey Epstein's private parties or whoever is running these now because I do not believe they stopped just because he's no longer around.
In the UK, we're in an almost unique position because back in the 80s, Margaret Thatcher watched Pinochet privatising the water and sewage companies in Chile and decided this was a really fine idea and imported it wholesale to the UK.
Our water and sewage companies were privatised at a steal in 1989 and pretty much everyone agreed quite fast that this was an incredibly bad idea.
except successive governments.
So now people have got together and formed their own activist groups based around the rivers near them.
There's always at least one.
And they're conducting citizen science, holding people's assemblies, and generally making enough of a nuisance of themselves that those in power have to take notice.
What does that remind you of that we're seeing on our screens every day?
All this being the case, it's World Water Day on March the 22nd every year.
And this year, we are recording in 2026 for those of you who listen years later, we're talking to Clare Kirby, co-founder of Up Sewage Creek and a member of the Sewage Campaign Network.
I first met Clare when my last dog was young, so nearly 20 years ago.
She has a degree in environmental science from King's College in London.
And then she went on to become a pet behaviour specialist.
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