Walking Thoughts

Regulatory reform in the water industry - the CUNLIFFE commission The UK and Welsh governments have announced a review of the water sector in response to public anger over rising bills, sewage spills, and a lack of investment.  The review is chaired by Sir Jon Cunliffe, former deputy governor of the Bank of England. What is the CUNLIFFE Commission ?    The CUNLIFFE Commission is an independent review of water industry regulation in England and wales. DEFRA will work with Jc, the chair of the independent commission, Jon Cunliffe, to devise a set of recommendations for reform of the water sector regulatory system. This will deliver a necessary reset of the water sector in England and Wales. This review will take place from November 2024 until June 2025. What is meant by reset of the water sector? the Government’s reset of the water sector will establish a new partnership between government, water companies, customers, investors, leisure users of water and people who work to...

  New skill learning and active practice implementing knowledge at major water company. Self-led research and learning into DfMA and MCC Project work with Aqua and Severn Trent Water Delivering innovation through modular solutions for AMP8 programme. 1. Literature review, market research, subject matter expert consultations with engineers for Yorkshire Water, Wessex Water, Anglian Water, UU and Southern Water, discussions with relevant suppliers arising from desk top study into modular, prefabricated and plug and play asset options for wastewater treatment, water supply network monitoring, predictive maintenance and renewable power options to support SPS and assets experiencing black and brown out. 2. Site visit to innovative modular STW at Severn Trent Water’s new STW at Lower Moor. Modular PST, SAFs and HSTs all designed within shipping containers on rollers, known as RORO. Expert guidance by Severn Trent’s principal engineer and delivery manager. 3. Capital delivery and whole li...

 AI hasn’t had my live experience. AI was never a little girl going into hospital for an operation on her hands. I was two years old. My handwriting is very poor and I cannot draw. I Prefer to dictate the articles I write rather than typing them. Yet I am grateful to the School of the surgeons as I grew up to be an engineer. My work has been very manual.A I can never Have lived that experience. Despite my hand related disadvantage all of my studies up until my PhD were pre-computer. So everything was handwritten. There were some computers about when I went to university, but only the rich kids had a computer of their own. I Stood and queued in the library for my turn to use a university computer. The library was on campus, But my home was not. I walked for 2 miles to and from campus following my queueing and my use of the computers. There was a accommodation on campus, but it isn’t something I could afford. Writing this I’ve just realised the irony that the rich kids both had compu...

 I don’t venture into shopping centres very often. But this weekend was my son’s birthday so I took him and his friends to a town so they could eat junk food and watch a film. While they were there, I walked into the town centre. hie dad still need to buy a birthday card so we went shopping for one. First we headed for the large shopping mall as this contain a lot of shops and you would expect to be able to buy just about anything there, including a birthday card. Well We were very wrong. Although there were indeed a lot of shops and a great variety of merchandise, there was absolutely nothing anybody could ever possibly have needed in here. And not a single birthday card. It was very bright and very crowded and all I could see everywhere was climate change.  Just massive manufacture, transport, display and selling. Lots of things were very appealing to the eye from cuddly toys To novelties. We left empty-handed and slightly worn out. Back On the main High Street we  mana...

  So when I’ve been for therapy, they’ve always wanted to know why am there and what it is I want to get out of the therapy. And I’ve always told them that I am there to be treated for being raped as a little girl when I was getting raped by six men that broke into the house while my parents were at work during the school holidays. And for growing up in the house with violence and the School with the cat poo everywhere and all the piles of dirty plates and if anyone ever saw inside the house they would comment because we didn’t have carpets or wallpaper which was common at the time in the 1970s and 1980s. People still have carpet all laminate flooring these days, but I don’t so much have wallpaper. Central heating and the kitchen wasn’t fitted. It was standalone unit without cupboards just shelves. And it was cold. And I was often hungry. And I find that I hide from life and find ways of avoiding living my life and not what I want to get out of therapy is to be able to undertake th...

 As a witness support volunteer at Manchester Crown Court I supported a victim giving evidence in an attempted rape trial This woman has been walking home. The man grabbed her, dragged her off the path and pushed her down on a patch of grass. He pinned her down, knelt On her thighs with his knees, Hit her about the face and pushed up her skirt. She screamed. Lights came on nearby. People came running. The man fled. Upon arrest he is questioned in the police station. On tape he says, ‘ I didn’t do that, I wouldn’t - She ain’t even pretty’. She spent a week in the hospital. In court Expert witnesses from the hospital Give evidence about her injuries Which they treated her for, But they could not save the baby. By the time this case gets to court The charge has been reduced to assault. The tape is played Where he is evidently denying trying to rape her. It makes little sense relative to an assault charge. However, the expert evidence means that an assault charge is much easier to prov...

  Environmental awareness By 26th of April 48 minutes Fire awareness by third of May 30 minutes Business compliance essentials by third of May 46 minutes Slips trip and falls by 10th of May 30 minutes Manual handling by 10th of May 35 minutes GDPR by 17th of May 38 minutes Cyber security by 17th of May 39 minutes Anti-invasion by 24th of May 20 minutes Anti-bribery by 24th of May 29 minutes Money laundering by 31st of May 30 minutes Anticorruption by 31st of May 10 minutes