Water..........just use as much as you want

No shortage of water in this country
If you don't beleive me go to Spurn Point and look out over to Lincolnshire
There is a 7 mile wide river there that is running in to the sea 24/7
No shortage of water.......shortage of investment in water industry
Got to keep the share holders sweet

 

So because theres a massive river

We can use as much treated and purified water as we want?

That's how it works then?

 

Yep.......keep throwing it on the garden

At some point the water industry will admit defeat

 

RE: Yep.......keep throwing it on the garden

I'm not throwing any on the garden - never do, let nature take it's course.

Bring on the hosepipe bans I say.

 

Bring on the infrastructure investment!

keeps me in a good job though I'm more of a shitworks man missen!</p>

seriously though water meters are the answer.</p>

And no you cant just keep pulling it out of the river network...the bunny huggers would go apeshit.</p>

 

Aye lets spend loads of money

to process water then piss the whole lot into the drains/ rivers / ground then simply pay again to purify it...nice and green..FFS</p>

The answer lies in the hands of both consumer and supplier.</p>

Compulsary water meters and investment by the water industry</p>

New York City once found it cheaper to go and install 50,000? (i think) water efficient toilets to homes for free as it saved more than the cost of a new treatment plant...20 million quid or so for that capacity.</p>

Thames are a bunch of twits and Ofwat WILL give them a bloody nose sooner or later. record profits / record leakage.</p>

 

What would really help is two supplies

We can't use our tap water for drinking or cooking as it contains too much arsenic so we have to use bottled water for anything that's going to end up for human consumption. It's surprising how small a percentage of your household water usage this is and the rest doesn't need to be purified to anything like the same extent. The ideal solution would be separate supplies, one for drinking and one for general usage. Big up-front investment, though, unless the drinking water wasn't actually on-tap but centrally distributed in some way. You soon get used to picking up some water when you're in town and local delivery systems could be arranged.

As a less drastic solution, I agree with Spartacus re: Compulsory water meters. It's only fair.

 

Solution is this............

More reservoirs.......and less leaks
Which means more money spent
This country has plenty of water
The media would have you beleive something different e.g. water meters etc etc
Like I said - go to Spurn Point or alternatively Cleethorpes and you look across 7 miles of river

 

Still wasteful

I agree with what you're saying as far as less leaks but why pay to purify water to drinking standards when over 95% of it is going to be used to water gardens, have baths, etc? There are improvements to be made at both ends and I'd like to see swingeing fines for inefficient water companies coupled with meters at point of delivery as an incentive for consumers to save water.

I carry between 150 and 200 litres of water from the river to the vegetable patch each day rather than run a hose on it. It irks me to see other people chucking it around like there's an infinite supply. We all end up paying to have it purified and without meters the distribution of that cost is unfair.

 

RE: Still wasteful

Ban people from watering gardens, permanently, it is needless and wasteful.

 

RE: Still wasteful

Presumably you mean "using mains water".

 

I am on spring water

When its dry its dry

 

RE: Still wasteful

Yes, sorry, if you collect rain water then you can use that.

 

Thanks (n/t)