Water Update

[johnny.5]

anyone else had a text from their water supplier regarding this weekend and water usage ?

[sunny-dave]

No shortage of the wet stuff here in the Emerald Isle - or indeed the Black Stuff.

Shower with a friend?

[ Are they right ?
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[Old_Geezer]

No. But we pay water company's to collect, clean, and supply what is needed so they have to have plenty available for the summer. No issues then.

[burlyshirley]

Nope !

[maggiebee]

Can someone please explain to a Scot what a "water supplier" is? We all have the same "supplier" up here and no water meters. We pay a set annual amount through our Council Tax so in theory can use as much as we want. I do try to save water when I can by using dish water in the garden etc.

[johnny.5]

but you lock it all away

[Arksided]

^ :-)
I've heard nothing from them (Yorkshire Water) but have to say my bill has shot down since I had the water meter fitted a few years back. The standard annual fee was so expensive I thought I was supplying the county.

[barry1010]

No. My water supplier hasn't got my phone number

[Buenchico]

I've had an email from Anglian Water about keeping water usage to the minimum.

However as I've not had any proper running water for at least a decade (due to various leaks, that I can't easily afford to get fixed), and rely on briefly turning the water on now and then to fill some plastic bottles before turning it off again, my ANNUAL water consumption is the same as the MONHLY consumption in an average one-person household. So I don't think that I can save much more!

[davebro]

yes - I promised to stop drinking it!

[Togo]

"She who must be obeyed" told me that I couldn't use the hose pipe to water my Broad Beans. When I asked why? She said "It's melted"!

[Maydup]

No contact yet but if Anglia Water are sending out emails maybe we’re due one.

[DTCwordfan]

nothing here in the s-w.....next door ignoring requests by filling a bloody great temporary pool, one of those above ground ones and about 3 ft deep....there goes a few thousand litres out of the local reservoir.

[Old_Geezer]

Dunno about up north, but time was, here in the south we too had the civilised way of funding water from rates. Then heartless hard-of-thinking politicians allowed business to force meters on everyone whether they liked it, or objected to the immoral change, or not. Customers/voters have zero importance.

However when we were all in it together, funding it by the water rates kitty, clearly we all felt responsible to use as little as possible when things seemed difficult. Now, of course, we pay for what we, personally, use, and so are entitled to use as much as we like, and the water company, with all it's meters, have all the responsibility to ensure they have sufficient supply.

[pimplyteen]

Funny how the supermarkets don't seem to suffer any shortage of bottle water?

[barry1010]

What a short memory you have, pimplyteen

[gingejbee]

OG..."force meters on everyone". Wrong. I don't have a metered supply, and most of the people I know don't have one.
It was a choice that some opted for, and others didn't.

[barry1010]

ginge, where I live a water meter is forced on you if you simply move house - provided the property is capable of having a water meter installed. The buyer has no choice, it doesn't matter if it is a new build or two hundred years old. Also if you have a pond or pool above a certain size (my neighbour was caught out when the water company suspected a leak because of unusually high water demand in the area).

[gingejbee]

^yes, barry, I know that. I was simply correcting OG's assertion that they were being forced on "everyone".
(And, incidentally, why should water be different from everything else? The more gas, electricity, food etc. that people use, the more they pay...why not water?) - says the person without a metered supply!

[barry1010]

I was very happy when my water meter was installed, water now costs me less than a quarter of what I would be paying on the rateable value system.

[johnny.5]

I remember reading somewhere that if there was 3 occupants or fewer in a property then a water meter would save you money