how about, the north generates the money and takes the olympics and i get by on stella till we can find some water. everyone happy then
Try living in the South West. We have the highest bills in the country!
And the reason we have such high bills is that we have a beutifull countryside edged with a beutifull coastline (Which costs money to keep clean). Because of our coastline we have a developed and consistent tourist economy (Northerners that have come down here to squander our water, and leave us with the bill).
As for the £50 per year relief we were informed we would get during November, well thats only deductable from 2014, but we have had price rises since November to the tune of 60 a year already!
Water companies are an industry that needs to be deregulated!
got soaked in the drought today
Am thinking that Keilder will be overflowing by now, anybody want some water ??
John
For as long as I can remember areas of the UK have been saying they don't have enough water reserves and implement saving schemes like hose pipe bans, the amount of rainfall we have doesn't seem to have much effect, there was a big hue and cry about the amount of water wasted through leaks and that was addressed but I think the answer is quite simple.
No matter how big your reservoir is only so much rain will fall into it, but more of them means catching more water.
We do not have enough reservoirs, we should be building more, that way even a dry season could be coped with, the amount of rain falling recently with hose pipe bans remaining in place simply proves we don't have enough reserves for everyday use. more reservoirs and water treatment plants and job done problem solved, we can find £15billion for the Olympics, £750 million for Pakistans internal education programme etc, we can find some money to build what we need.
well this is the wettest " drought " i have ever known in london.
since the hose pipe ban was introduced it has not stopped raining. it is about time the water companies in the south, spent some of there money on investments and not on share holders.
it has not stopped pissing down here for over ten hours, and counting, yet i cannot use my hose pipe. i live about five miles from the financial capital of the world. one of the greatest cities on earth and yet i cannot use my hose pipe. :twisted: how utterly crazy is that in one of the most affluent cities in the western world?
i would like a question answered if anyone can.
my father is on a water meter and lives on his own. last saturday i was round his house and watered a few plants with his hose. i forgot about the hose pipe ban honest. my father mentioned this to me and this got me thinking. if every single person was on a meter what would be gained by the water companies imposing water bans.
if peeple were paying for every drop of water they used, by imposing bans would reduce there profits, and we know that the water companies love there shareholders to much to have there profits taken away. but because a bigger percentage of peeple pay for there water not by a meter, that is why they are not bothered about the water bans.
i know that sounds cynical but as i said to my father when using the hose, what is the problem as if i use your hose for 24 hours you get charged for that water used. his neighbour would still pay the same amount every month no matter how much water they used. is that a fair argument?
100 milion percent agree with Mids on this point. I don't care how much money someone has, they should never be allowed to waste one of our most precious resources on plants at the detriment of other human beings.
We do waste water. We flush the toilet with drinking water - it's one step short of flushing with Evian. More a sign of showing off riches than simple hygiene. Every house cold collect rain water from the roof into an underground tank - that would be ample for most flushing. Businesses (often with larger roof:toilet ratios) definitely SHOULD be doing this.
Bearing in mind that drinking water is collected, treated and piped back to us - leaking all the way - using it for anything other than consumption or washing bodies is a waste. Properly filtered (the technology is well established already) rain water could be used for clothes washing and household cleaning as well as washing cars.
We live in the westcountry and we are unfortunate enough to have the highest charges for water in the the UK.
South West Water initially charged us the equivalent of £110 per month when we moved to our current home in August 2011. The occupancy of our home is two adults and two children. I asked for our supply to be metered and within a few days the changes were made and a direct debit for £60 a month was setup. It is a slight overspend on our part, but then when the credit balance gets too high we get a refund, and at least we never owe them a penny.
A few weeks ago I happened to be chatting with someone that lives a few doors down. He had recently moved to the area, transferring his job with Thames Water to South West Water. On his advice I have placed three water butts on a quiet corner of my garden and they are fed by the rainwater in my guttering. The net result is that I am able to qualify for a 23% discount on my sewerage charges!
The moral of this story is don't simply assume, check!
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