Amanda Scott
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 25 Feb
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With the full approval of the state, they continue to fleece the people.
Water companies lose over a trillion litres of water a year to leaky pipes.
Sewage is dumped in rivers, lakes and seas for nearly 4 million hours, damaging human health, biodiversity and marine life.
I would say not just damaging, I would say annihilating, but there we go.
Since privatisation in 1989, water companies have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts,
but none has had their license to operate revoked.
I could go on reading the rest of this article, which would continue to make everybody's blood boil, but let's leave it at that.
We are in a critical situation and we have a government that quite clearly has no intention of doing anything about this.
And yet, World Water Day is coming up and people around the world are becoming increasingly aware of what we're doing to one of our fundamental rights.
life-saving, life-giving, life-enhancing, life-affirming elements.
And you're one of those people and you've been working on this for quite a while.
So Claire, tell us first how you came to found or co-found Up Sewage Creek and we'll move on from there.
That sounds to me like quite an edited highlight because you had listened to the podcast and you and your neighbour or you alone went to train with Trusted People.
Was that before this or after?
For people not in the country, XR is Extinction Rebellion, which was, again, this was just after or not long after the pink boat and the occupation of Trafalgar Square when XR was...
was still a very big political movement and had a lot of people joining.
And as I understand it, Shrewsbury had quite an active XR, probably still does.
They still do, actually.
Okay.
Yeah.
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