Reply With Quotesince privatisation the water companies have invested 5bn in infrastructure, and over the same period they have paid out 72 bn to shareholders.
hosepipe bans only save a fraction of the water that water companies lose to leaks.
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Triple the cost unless you have a water meter, then when everyone has a meter bar a few that have swiming pools and are happy to pay triple, triple it again. You need people to pay for what they use.
There would be no waste then, imagine if electric and gas was a standard amount people would have heating on all winter and air con on all Summer.
Use the extra revenue to stop emptying sewage into the Sea, there needs to be massive fines for that immediately!
since privatisation the water companies have invested 5bn in infrastructure, and over the same period they have paid out 72 bn to shareholders.
hosepipe bans only save a fraction of the water that water companies lose to leaks.
Fix the Leaks tooOriginally Posted by Rjk
Are you sure though, when I didn't have a meter in the old house the lawn was immaculate, watered every hot day, now it's brown and that’s how it stays, it's very expensive to water the lawn with a sprinkler!
The other big waste is a leaking toilet overflow that runs into the bowl, if you have a meter is fixed, if not you can do it in a month or six!
Or Severn Trent could fix their leaking pipes which waste 400m+ litres of water every day. Like climate change, the blame and solutions shouldn't be passed onto the general public whilst the people actually ignoring the problems are allowed to do so without confrontation.
How often do we have hosepipe bans? Rarely. They don't last particularly long, either.
You're coming across as someone who is disgruntled because they can't use a hosepipe and would rather price out of the market someone with little money but can fill a pool out the garden for their kids.
I don’t think this would solve anything tbh.
Not really, it just doesn't make sense for people to waste water, people with meters don't people without do, you probably haven't got one?
Climate change means it will become more common in the future, so start on it now, not when it's too late like the gas and fuel crisis.
Triple the fines on the Water companies for leaks and sewage dumps into the Sea while they are at it, and consider nationalisation, they don't have any competition.
I always remember an ex-neighbour who wanted to water his new lawn and to avoid using his metered water, wanted to use our water. With or without a meter, he wouldn't get any joy from me.
If every person in Britain had a shower all day, every day, we'd use less water than the water companies lose in leaks. Privatisation has been fantasticFix the Leaks too
Are you sure though, when I didn't have a meter in the old house the lawn was immaculate, watered every hot day, now it's brown and that’s how it stays, it's very expensive to water the lawn with a sprinkler!
The other big waste is a leaking toilet overflow that runs into the bowl, if you have a meter is fixed, if not you can do it in a month or six!
Amazing how making money on an essential service means the consumer gets screwed over.
There are quite a lot of houses in North Cardiff that cannot have a meter mine is one of them, applied for one, told unable to fix one, so on a fixed rate now.
Use a water butt for watering your garden. I've got one this year for the first time and have hardly used tap water to fill the watering can.
It does take the piss when you see how much leakage there still is though. Needs to be stricter targets for water companies before they're allowed to pay dividends and bonuses.
I've got 3 100 litre ones, and there have been several times they've all run dry this summer, but then we are growing a lot of veg this year
it really is unacceptable that people are making money from running our water network down into a state of such disrepair.
they should impose massive punitive fines for the illegal dumping of sewage into the rivers and for the amount of water leaking out of our system, and if the water companies can't pay them they should be taken over by the government
My Nan had a leak at her house, Welsh water said someone would come and assess it next week. Can't remember the amount they said it was losing but it was very visibly coming out of the bottom of the wall into the front garden.
But ye make sure you shut your tap off when brushing your teeth.
The only snag with that is water companies could simply let their pipe networks rot to buggery and let the taxpayer foot the bill.
One day we might live in a country where big companies, not just water providers, look to do things properly with greater importance than making massive profits.
We are massively increasing our population through mass immigration which is putting pressure on all our utilities, including water.
And we are all shareholders thhrough our pensions so it's a good efficient system no?
Net immigration to the U.K. is only around 200,000 per year, that isn’t mass migration.
U.K. population growth has been around 0.3-0.4% for the last 10 years.
If that small a number put pressure on a country’s utilities it would be beyond ****ed.
Are you being serious here?
I'd have to respectfully disagree with you there. It is mass immigration. It's more than 200.000 but let's use that figure. 1 million extra people every 5 years on the most densely populated country in Europe. And you say this will have little affect on utilities? Wow
Are you?
Sorry to say he is.He is on par with the Hungarian PM with his warped views.
it's not the most densely populated country in Europe
Is there any point to your post other than to argue for the sake of it? The point is, we are a very over crowded island.
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