There are 11 water boards in England, so on average slightly smaller in terms of population served but much much smaller geographically than Scottish Water.
Scottish Water has maintained 90% of water courses at ‘good or better’ condition. England’s water boards have only managed 10%: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2023/08/13/englands-water-nine-times-more-likely-to-contain-sewage/
The Herald is telling us indignantly that the Scottish Water chief is getting a £50K bonus and earned £300K last year: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23728041.scottish-water-accused-50k-salary-rise-new-chief/?ref=ebbn&nid=1388&u=54f15f1382a35160f5f9fbd9de82faff&date=170823
In 2021, the average salary for an English water board CE, was £1.1 million, nearly 4 times that of the Scottish Water board CE: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/uk-water-company-bosses-pay-rise-sewage-clean-it-up-rg88t5kl3#:~:text=The%20average%20remuneration%20for%20executives,paid%20almost%20%C2%A325%20million.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Yeah, but, but, but he’s scotch innit? Bound to be worth less….
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“A pound spent in Croydon is far more of value to the country than a pound spent in Strathclyde.” Bozo the Clown.
so with 4×11 more pounds the trickle down effect must be phenomenal.
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O/T It’s remarkable today on the subject of England’s school exam results how the BBC News website is managing to underplay the evidence of and commentary elsewhere on (e.g. in The Guardian, in the Times Educational Supplement) the grade/attainment gap that is still evident – and indeed may have widened since 2019 – between regions of England, between state and private schools, between young people eligible for free school meals and the others.
When the BBC News website reported on the release of Scotland’s exam results on 8 August its prominent article took just 12 lines before giving space to opposition politicians and their reference to ‘source of shame’ for Scottish ministers and ‘SNP failure’ quotes. So far, in none of the BBC News website’s reports up to c.1500 hours – on exam results from England, NI and Wales – did I spot a single quote from or reference to an opposition politician.
On England’s results, the BBC News website so far has only provided a ‘Live reporting’ feed: there is no substantive, stand-alone comprehensive news report unlike for Wales and NI. On the English results any objective detail in a short contribution rapidly gets superseded and demoted in prominence as more stuff is added, including lots of student anecdotes.
The BBC does journalism differently in different parts of the UK of course!
I note that on the Today programme this morning, an Oxford academic was interviewed on the merits or otherwise of the decision taken to return A Level grade boundaries in England this year to 2019 standards. The professor agreed it was the correct decision albeit then going on (oddly) to describe a whole host of negative factors due to the pandemic that were still affecting the recently examined Sixth Form cohort. But despite this she was firm in her view that England’s approach was right and not the one adopted in Scotland.
In passing (!), I noted that the academic chosen to opine on the merits of Westminster’s decision vs. Holyrood’s had a very obvious Scottish accent.
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