TONAL - Rivers Beyond Sewage reaches behind the headlines to explore water issues in the UK, with a special focus on the River Tone in Somerset. Through riverside conversations with people who have profound relationships with water Feral Practice leads us into the politics, law, art and science of rivers with curiosity and humor.
Moving beyond the adversarial tone that dominates news and social media, Tonal offers powerful and entertaining listening — professional, political, ecological and spiritual — while keeping a close ear on the river herself. The artist Feral Practice lives in Somerset, UK. Their work explores and expands our relationship to other species and the living earth.
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TONAL - Rivers Beyond Sewage reaches behind the headlines to explore water issues in the UK, with a special focus on the River Tone in Somerset. Through riverside conversations with people who have profound relationships with water Feral Practice leads us into the politics, law, art and science of rivers with curiosity and humor.
Moving beyond the adversarial tone that dominates news and social media, Tonal offers powerful and entertaining listening — professional, political, ecological and spiritual — while keeping a close ear on the river herself. The artist Feral Practice lives in Somerset, UK. Their work explores and expands our relationship to other species and the living earth.
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We spent a morning with Matt Wheeldon, Director of Infrastructure Development at Wessex Water, at the Bradford on Tone sewage treatment works. He’s a passionate advocate for change in our sewage system – ‘We’ve got a rainwater problem, not a sewage problem.’
As we got deeper into the topic, it seems we have a politics problem, a development problem, a consumer problem, a carbon footprint problem, a farming problem, a knowledge problem. Lots of problems!
As far as actual sewage goes, it isn’t rocket science, but it is expensive, in carbon terms as well as in ££. Follow our trip around the treatment works and our wide ranging conversation about it all.
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