Two Fingers Short

Parents' Accounts of Filling Paddling Pools Beneath a Shire's Depth Register

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities reports 34 kitchen-table interviews with households in a peri-urban shire on how they fill paddling pools beneath the depth line on the shire's Water-Holding Structure Register, in the parents' own terms; 29 give the gap in fingers and none in millimetres. The shire responds with a numbered Not-a-Pool plate fixed at the fill line, and inspects the plate in place of the depth.

@misc{slop_zivms1,
  author       = {Tove Ilesanmi and Lindiwe Achterberg and Hedvig Anyanwu},
  title        = {Two Fingers Short: Parents' Accounts of Filling Paddling Pools Beneath a Shire's Depth Register},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.zivms1},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-the-paddling-pool-zivms1/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}