water

[cliffsdoll]

water must have been free to everybodt at one stage, so how did yorkshire water get it? did they just come along one day and say... i,ll clean up all this dirty water and sell it to people? what wuld happen if someone decided to clean up the air we breath by ridding it of all pollution, smog ect and making us pay for the clean air, what would happen to the poor people who could,nt afford it?

[Laura-sakura]

You can drink the dirty stuff for free.

[vehelpfulguy]

Water still is free, nothing stopping you driving to a mountainous area, and getting a few bucketfulls of water from a clean stream and bringing them home. Of course you would need to do it every day, particularly if you need a bath.

And what about your toilet waste, what are you going to do with that. Throw it out the window into the street (which it was they used to do in medieval times).

What you are actually paying for is them bringing the clean water direct to your home, taking away all your toilet waste and other dirty water and cleaning it all, and also building and maintaining all the reservoirs and miles and miles of underground pipes and sewers.

[vehelpfulguy]

Interesting fact.

Did you know that the earths total water supply never goes up or down, it is always the same amount.

Which means that the water you use to drink, wash in, and wash up with, has been used over and over again for thousands of years.

How many people has it been through, how many toilets has it cleaned, how many cars has it washed.

Rather amazing that the water that comes out of your tap is good enough to drink (and tastes good, unlike some foreign water that comes out of their taps).

Maybe THAT is what you are paying Yorkshire water for,