Bampton Community Archive, Autumn 2024 Exhibition
Water, Wells and Waste in Bampton and Weald An Exhibition by Alistair Wray and Paul Ader
About the authors:
This exhibition looks at how water has shaped the development of Bampton and Weald, bringing opportunities and challenges and then looks in detail at how local families have accessed water and disposed of wastewater and human waste, and the evidence supporting this and finally how communities banded together to obtain improved water supplies, address growing pollution challenges and secure wastewater treatment facilities and how our water and the services it provides must be safeguarded
Alistair Wray
We hope that you enjoy the exhibition and accompanying book and the insights it brings. It links to other Bampton Community Archive publications which are referenced. We were going to include a section on flooding challenges too but given the material we have obtained, that is for another time. Thank you to all who have provided information and agreed to be interviewed for this exhibition and the related publication, in particular to Jo Lewington and Janet Rouse for their long memories and overall guidance.
Retired Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a Member of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, with a background of more than 45 years in international development and infrastructure service provision, including water supply and wastewater, in the UK, the EU and over 30 countries worldwide. Alistair has enjoyed collating information for this exhibition and publication on water shaping our local environment and the roll played by wells and privies.
Paul Ader Paul has over 40 years of experience in accountancy, business analysis, training, change management, and sense-making. From 2007 to 2012, he played a key role in national reforms to the process of certifying the cause of death. Lessons from these reforms led him to adopt a complexity-informed approach to change that starts with the way people make sense of their lived experience. Between 2013 and 2021 he led and mentored use of this approach in 9 countries, including Lebanon, Pakistan, Afghanistan, South Sudan, the UK, and the USA. At the start of the Covid pandemic, Paul decided to work closer to home. Since then he has had part-time roles with the Community & Wellbeing Team at West Oxfordshire District Council, Active Oxfordshire, and Citizens Advice West Oxfordshire. Paul has an active and growing interest in local history. He also helped start the Shill Brook Catchment Partnership to inform and activate community engagement on sewage pollution, flooding, and river environment.
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