Alex Lipp

Lecturer in Earth Sciences @ES_UCL | he/him | 🌍 🌱 🏔 🧗‍♂️ 🏕 🏃‍♂️ | Find me on Bluesky where I am more active (handle = @alexlipp.github.io)

[Alex Lipp @AlexGLipp]

My collaborators and I recently published two new papers where we develop and apply a new "inverse" approach to identifying pollutants in river networks. I've written a plain language explainer here:
https://t.co/X82hstq8gq

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[Alex Lipp @AlexGLipp]

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!

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

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".

[Alex Lipp @AlexGLipp]

@greenarteries @sewageuk @DrAlexFord @leanahosea @Jamie_Woodward_ @OxonAndrew @WindrushWasp @watervole3 Deleted prev tweet as was unclearly worded…

[Alex Lipp @AlexGLipp]

@greenarteries @sewageuk @DrAlexFord @leanahosea @Jamie_Woodward_ @OxonAndrew @WindrushWasp @watervole3 So, the data is available on their website (https://t.co/RZo3myL7Qo) but not accessible (yet) to 3rd parties. It’s coming soon (we hope), but as based in Wales wasn’t part of recent Water U.K. initiative to release 3rd party data. Ditto for Scotland AFAIK

[Alex Lipp @AlexGLipp]

@TomCW99 @RiverActionUK Noted!

[Alex Lipp @AlexGLipp]

@greenarteries @RiverActionUK We are working on it!

[Alex Lipp @AlexGLipp]

@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!

[Alex Lipp @AlexGLipp]

@joe_crowley @jamie_wallis …but most companies don’t release historical spill data in a usable format so it’s hard!

[RiverActionUK @RiverActionUK]

Still fancy a cold-water swim this morning? 🤢😡

https://t.co/gjG5k1ltOZ now has national coverage,
with data from all water-companies! 📈
Check out their map to help keep you informed of #sewagepollution at your local swim spot.

#SewageScandal #EndSewagePollution

[Alex Lipp @AlexGLipp]

All the source-code, and the live polluted river reach data is #opensource and #opendata at https://t.co/K0AjvfVkjP... Suggestions, ideas and contributions very welcome!

[Alex Lipp @AlexGLipp]

Happy to share that https://t.co/9PERLmjIuC now has national coverage! Whole country looking quite poop-y today... 1/3 #rivers #sewage #pollution

[Alex Lipp @AlexGLipp]

…but as ever Jonny and I have been stymied by most water companies limiting the data they release! 🙄🙄 2/3

[Lucy Brookes @LucyMBrookes]

It's available to pre-order, so it's real: my first book, Convention and the Individual in Medieval English Romance, will be out later this year! With thanks to @CanaryCaroline and @boydellbrewer for help at every stage — and for the beautiful cover!

https://t.co/XnCg2nqnDz

[University of Oxford @UniofOxford]

'We need to rebuild public trust in our river – and sewer – networks.'

A new UK law is forcing water companies to make pollution data readily accessible to the general public - but it doesn’t go far enough, writes @AlexGLipp ⬇️
https://t.co/EWq1Nkvt2f

[Surfers Against Sewage @sascampaigns]

We welcome more transparency, but there is a lot more to it as explained in this piece by @conversationuk .

https://t.co/7nbFffJpXs

[Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva]

Water companies now have to release live sewage spill data – here's why more transparency is the key to cleaner rivers https://t.co/VdwSvGkXnU by @AlexGLipp

Storm Overflows Data https://t.co/9MqkH1hL5V (England)

#StormOverflows #SewageScandal #opendata (CC BY)

[Alex Lipp @AlexGLipp]

And thanks @AnnaTurns @ConversationUK for editing & guiding this over the line!

[Alex Lipp @AlexGLipp]

I'm in The Conversation discussing the new release of nationwide sewage spill data in the wider context of open data, open models and environmental transparency. 1/n
#opendata
https://t.co/WP7uuUp5Jb

[Alex Lipp @AlexGLipp]

So, if we want to rebuild trust in our rivers, open data & models are a good place to start 8/8

https://t.co/WP7uuUp5Jb