Amanda Scott
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2,179 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 25 Feb
Amanda Scott’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They want to build a community aiming to improve river health.
that they're impactful, they want to collect data for a purpose or outcome and measure the results of new and existing approaches, that they're open, they want to share the data and ideas openly as a default, that they're rigorous, so they want to use appropriate best practice to collect and share the data, and they're future-minded, they want to grow our community's capacity to take care of rivers for the long term.
However...
They are funded by the Ofwat Innovation Fund.
And for people outside the UK, Ofwat, O-F-W-A-T, is a government quango, basically.
It's funded by the government.
So they are taking government funding to create a citizen science database, which I imagine...
is going to create the data that shows that private companies owning our water and sewage systems is an absolute, utter, expletive, deleted catastrophe.
How do you and they get your heads around that internal contradiction?
There is a lot of good stuff.
However, we can turn out as much citizen science as we like, demonstrating that for four million hours a year, they are dumping raw sewage into rivers that do not need raw sewage dumped into them.
And I am remembering...
Probably just before lockdown, Faith went to pick up the grandkids from school because grandma duties and a young child in the back saying, we had the poo man today.
And it's like very exciting, let's all giggle.
And what's the poo man?
And the poo man was from the local water company who had been to the children's primary school.
to explain to them that it wasn't their fault that there was sewage in the river.
Because when it rained, it just filled up the pipes.
And what would you do?
If you don't dump it in the river, it'll come back up the toilets.
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