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Alex Lipp
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Lecturer in Earth Sciences @ES_UCL | he/him | 🌍 🌱 🏔 🧗♂️ 🏕 🏃♂️ | Find me on Bluesky where I am more active (handle = @alexlipp.github.io)
Oxford, England
Joined April 2015
Great to see @Channel4News & @ecomaeve put together such an awesome explainer about Sewagemap, in the wider context of river pollution in the UK! Nice cameo from @ashsmith43 at the end too!
What’s the most polluted place to swim in the UK? A new map shows which rivers and seas contain the most sewage around the country. The map was created by scientists at UCL - and it’s live - so you can check when the most recent sewage spill happened in your local area. Last year activists wanted an ‘environmental emergency' to be declared - after research showed three quarters of all UK rivers pose a serious risk to human health. Now, the government wants water companies to pay for the damage they caused, but there's a catch - the money is going to come from our water bills going up. Founder of Windrush Against Sewage, Ash Smith, tells us the "privatised water industry is milking the bill-payer".
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@greenarteries @sewageuk @DrAlexFord @leanahosea @Jamie_Woodward_ @OxonAndrew @WindrushWasp @watervole3 Deleted prev tweet as was unclearly worded…
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@joe_crowley @jamie_wallis eg, Northumbria looks surprisingly “spill free”… not saying it’s wrong but it’d be good to know exactly why. Perhaps they just maintain their network better!
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RT @RiverActionUK: Still fancy a cold-water swim this morning? 🤢😡 now has national coverage, with data from all wa…
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All the source-code, and the live polluted river reach data is #opensource and #opendata at .. Suggestions, ideas and contributions very welcome!
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RT @LucyMBrookes: It's available to pre-order, so it's real: my first book, Convention and the Individual in Medieval English Romance, will…
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RT @UniofOxford: 'We need to rebuild public trust in our river – and sewer – networks.' A new UK law is forcing water companies to make po…
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RT @sascampaigns: We welcome more transparency, but there is a lot more to it as explained in this piece by @conversationuk . https://t.co…
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RT @owenboswarva: Water companies now have to release live sewage spill data – here's why more transparency is the key to cleaner rivers ht…
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