Amanda Scott
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 25 Feb
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Like they have got a Rubidon that then feeds into the AI that then tells you everything you want to know about oxygen levels and triglyceride levels and potential pollution levels.
And so you actually don't need your daughter and her friends.
But leaving that aside.
And people swim in the river.
And people swim in the river.
Which is bizarre.
I remember reading a report somewhere along the line and the levels of E. coli were actual millions of times higher than the maximum permitted amount for people to swim.
And people were still swimming in the river because I don't know why.
It doesn't even smell good.
but no well let's see okay so you'll have a link for that and i will put it in the show notes yeah definitely so that's that's coming out in about three weeks all right so let's broaden this a bit because i don't want this to become just about england's sewage it's worth noting that scotland never privatized its water system and does not have these issues and the welsh system is slightly different again let's not go into that because this is a global podcast
And where we're at is the only countries in the world that privatised their water and sewage system were Chile under Pinochet.
And then Margaret Thatcher was so impressed with Pinochet that she decided it was a good thing to do in the UK.
And as I understand it, from actually listening to Ed Miliband's podcast many, many years ago, they keep bringing people over, particularly from the US and going, look, we privatised our water system and we're making this much money.
And even the Americans look at that and go, you know what, that's a really bad
bad idea.
And they haven't managed to persuade a single other nation on earth that privatising the water system is a good idea.
But this doesn't mean that everybody else's water is clean, because clearly it's not.
David Farrier's book is Nature's Genius.
He was on the podcast back in number 320, was full of accounts of rivers that are so polluted that the
The life that continues to live there is evolving to cope with astonishing levels of pollution.
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