Amanda Scott
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2,179 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 25 Feb
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I used to run rather wonderful puppy training classes.
Then in 2020, following an episode of this podcast, yay, she undertook a training with Trust the People and went on to co-found Up Sewage Creek, which is an activist group based around the River Severn in Shrewsbury, which for those of you not in the UK or with as shaky a grasp of UK geography as I had when I first met Faith, it's on the borders between England and Wales.
Pat Clare.
She co-founded Up Sewage Creek and you will hear what they've been doing.
And then more recently, she has become an active part of the Sewage Campaign Network, all of whom are actively campaigning against the UK government's latest white paper on the water industry, which is exactly as much of a greenwash or whitewash as you would expect.
So this is quite a lively conversation.
A lot of it focused on the situation in England, mainly because we live here and it's pretty bad.
But wherever you are in the world, you have water somewhere near you and I guarantee it's not clean.
And I guarantee also there will be people around you who care that it should become cleaner.
Clearly, if you're in a war zone, even if it's an as-yet undeclared civil war, this is not your highest priority, and I really do want to honour the people of Minnesota and Maine and Oregon and elsewhere who are taken to the streets in freezing weather to face the terrorist gangs unleashed on them by the US government.
You have other things to think about than the quality of your water, and you have my absolute utmost respect.
But I would also point out that not far away in Flint, Michigan, there is one of the most egregious failures of local politics ever to express itself in the quality of the water.
This is very clearly a universal problem.
We each do what we can.
And for those of us not currently facing pepper spray,
Uniting our communities so that not one single person is ever prepared to join up to the government's shock troops might be the front line.
At the very least, it might be timely and it might be one of the best things that we can do.
If testing water is your thing, please do it.
If organising sociocracy groups is your thing, please do it.
If just holding conversations about why having clean water might be a good idea and why it's not actually happening is your thing, then please do it.
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