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hosepipe/water ban
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.However, a cynical man might look at their vast profits and wonder if some of that might not pay to mend the fractured pipes through which they lose 1/3 of all carried water...
Other countries get by with buying bottled water and our supermarkets are full of the stuff so where is the problem?
Or is it all just the usual South-East of England hysteria raising its ugly head yet again?
I'd like to know why the water authorities with huge profits are not doing enough to solve this problem? We obviously cannot afford to waste our water so why is 900 million litres of water wasted through leakages? Surly the water authorities are irresponsible for this and should be blamed. Where does the money go when we all pay our bills?
I am appalled that Thames Water is still not getting on top of the huge increase of water leakage. I do not accept its excuse that abnormal winter weather conditions are to blame. We had a burst water pipe down the road last month. It went on for hours before Thames Water finally turned up. THey should be penalised, not us.
I think they are being a bit presumtious in their aticipation of a hosepipe ban - are they not frozen anyway?
Anway come up to Bonnie Scotland - after our overnight blitz on Sat/Sun we now have the floods to look forward to and boy will we get them.Housebaound virtually for 2 days and now we wont be able to get anywhere cos the roads will be flooded - least where I am.Just hope the flood barriers hold up.
Anyway nikita - get in touch with them and ask what you are paying your water rates for - stir them up!!
Sorry for typos - good song on The Box.(Black Eyed Peas)
Ianess made a good point.When we are abroad everyone buys water and as you all will know the supermarkets are stacked with it at dirt cheap prices.
Now I know we are already paying for the privelage of water but I would rather buy it and pay less rates.
Before privatisation the only drought situation in my lifetime was around 1960 when it didn't rain for several months, now under privatisation we have droughts in winter when it's raining?
The problem with the water supply is the same as with every other utility - profit.
If you employ executives with a financial incentive to save money, you have got problems, no matter what kind of company you are running - gas, electricity, water, trains, the principle is the same - the driving force behind the business is making a profit.
The simple answer is to re-nationailse all the utilities and put the 'profits' back into replacing infrastructure which has been systematically overlooked for decades.
It's not difficult - the problem is, in order to be able to make an effective change, you have to have already proved that you are happy with the system as it operates now.
Surface water is not lying long enough to pass through the soil and replenish the subterranian water table, and this, combined with increasingly dry spells ensures that this problem will only get worse. Effective replacement and maintenance of the water piping system is the answer, but that will never happen when shareholders are expecting dividends from their investments.
Privatise - the utilities belonged to all of us in the first place - time to hand them back.