I’m sorry but until we work out a way to make Tory donors rich with the water we won’t be acting.
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“Although some improvements have been made by water firms, nearly 3billion litres of water is still lost every day.
Plugging these leaks will require an investment of around £20bn”. What have we been paying them for?
Or, you know, invest in desalination since we’re a fucking island.
This is the same as us buying energy saving light bulbs, whilst down the road, the local retail park is illuminating the sky all night. Domestic users aren’t the problem, industry and agriculture waste huge amounts of water, and a lot is lost due to leaks. Someone filling their hot tub, or watering their hanging baskets aren’t using that much in the grand scheme of things. The public always get the blame. How much water does the Premier League use, or the local golf club? I think it’s a lot more than me.
It pisses down with rain 10 months of the year, how can we be out of water?
And the only sane voice in all this:
> A spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs told the Observer:
> “Water companies have a duty to ensure supplies. That’s why we continue to challenge those with a poor record on leakage and are working to ensure they introduce new infrastructure such as reservoirs and water transfers. We’re also taking forward measures to support water efficiency in homes.”
Will be ignored or silenced.
I got down voted through the floor the other day for saying I wouldn’t follow a hosepipe ban. Water is an essential service, if private companies can’t provide enough then nationalise it.
It’s funny how there’s no restriction on the car wash down our street that is supllied through the mains. If they can be open 11 hours a day there’s enough water for me to hose my garden. If not, use the profits to collect more.
I’m sure if we can mobilize trillions to stop a few hundred grannies and grandpas from dying in the short to medium term, we could do the same to fix our water storage issues to save 70ish million. I’m sick of hearing about it as some kind of world-ending problem when nothing is being done about it.
Tory government: emergency queues it is then!
Well, emergency queues on the streets it is then.
It’s almost like privatisation was a terrible idea and did not, as was promised, improve the quality of the service.
Now that they have taken the water tanks out of our lofts, we have no reserves left. Can anyone explain why the water tanks was removed and no longer install them?.
It’s been absolutely pissing it down all week. What’s happened to all that rainfall?
Only way to protect the Rich is to make sure the poor suffer. Their should be a report how much the Monarchy spends on water daily, just curious if their part of the well will run dry.
So we’ll be facing emergency queues on the streets then
so we’ll be queuing in the streets because we all know they’ll do sweet fa as long as the rich keep getting richer.
also £20 billion divided by the 28 million households in the uk is £715 per household. i’m fairly certain the private water companies are making a similar amount of profit per year from a household. how about they go without for a year or two and fix this?
How fucking inept do you have to be to be facing a water emergency in the fucking UK, where it literally rains 10 months a year
You mean like 1976.
Queues on the streets it is then. I for one am not looking forward to the water wars.
Another issue for the Conservatives to not give a fuck about.
Another “UK” article that is just talking about England and Wales.
Good luck with the compulsory metering, you’ll have to dig up the drives of 3 houses because we’re all on a shared supply.
Plenty of fresh water in Scotland. Could this be the REAL reason Westminster won’t allow independence? 😀
I’ve had a similar email from Affinity water. I might be more sympathetic if the water companies hadn’t closed loads of reservoirs, sold off the land for housing, failed to plug leaks, and given billions in share dividends.
The water loss is 3000 million litres a day or 23% of the water in the system is lost.
Edit: spelling, and also add thousands of tonnes of sewage flushed into rivers.
Add: found out the water companies have paid out twice as much in dividends than they have spent on infrastructure. Also the leak rate has been approximately ~23% for 20 bloody years.
I hate to be ‘that guy’ to say if you care about water then eat LESS (doesn’t mean you have to be a vegetarian or vegan) meat and dairy, but I am so buckle up.
Household water usage is [under 5% of total water usage](https://grantham.sheffield.ac.uk/how-much-water-does-the-uk-use/), another 5% for industry and the rest agriculture. Of course agriculture is important but start looking at how that is actually used… This very [out of date article](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/aug/20/water.food1) suggests a difference of ~5000 litres used per day on a diet including meat and dairy, versus ~2000 litres a day per person when a vegetarian. Although a majority, 60% ish, of this water usage for diet is water from other countries (because we import a lot). So whilst the UK may not be going through a drought another country may be fine, therefore circumnavigating the problem… I mean, not really but whatever.
So yeah, our water companies are shit and definitely should be government owned and water treated as the precious resource it is but at the same time… There are a lot of other factors and things we can be doing.
Edit: Just throwing this out there if you’re curious, but Mike Joy (a New Zealand academic on water) has estimated that it takes up to 11,000 litres of water to produce 1 litre of milk in Canterbury, NZ (one of the most inefficient for diary in the world). [Article here.](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14486563.2022.2068685?journalCode=tjem20)
I honestly didn’t know that England and Wales had privatised water. Do people have to pay monthly, is it not part of you council tax?
We use so much water farming animals, if we just used the water to grow plants and eat those we would be much better off.
The BBC weather presenters have been hinting at water shortages for months, to the point where it was so blatantly “nudge nudge wink wink”, that I suspected drought was being deliberately engineered by the government. Hosepipe bans should’ve been brought in last May. It’s barely rained in the last 12 months. We all know scientists can control the weather. Read up about HAARP. They can make it rain torrentially in Dubai by cloud seeding, so why can’t they make it rain here? It’s much more fun to impose drought on the public, and scare them with “climate change” BS.
Just remember that there is always an INFINITE supply of water.
The only issue is the cost of getting that clean water to our homes.
It can be cheap, via rain fall, or outragously expensive if delivered via Nuclaer Powered desalination plants.
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I’m sorry but until we work out a way to make Tory donors rich with the water we won’t be acting.
[deleted]
“Although some improvements have been made by water firms, nearly 3billion litres of water is still lost every day.
Plugging these leaks will require an investment of around £20bn”. What have we been paying them for?
Or, you know, invest in desalination since we’re a fucking island.
This is the same as us buying energy saving light bulbs, whilst down the road, the local retail park is illuminating the sky all night. Domestic users aren’t the problem, industry and agriculture waste huge amounts of water, and a lot is lost due to leaks. Someone filling their hot tub, or watering their hanging baskets aren’t using that much in the grand scheme of things. The public always get the blame. How much water does the Premier League use, or the local golf club? I think it’s a lot more than me.
It pisses down with rain 10 months of the year, how can we be out of water?
And the only sane voice in all this:
> A spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs told the Observer:
> “Water companies have a duty to ensure supplies. That’s why we continue to challenge those with a poor record on leakage and are working to ensure they introduce new infrastructure such as reservoirs and water transfers. We’re also taking forward measures to support water efficiency in homes.”
Will be ignored or silenced.
I got down voted through the floor the other day for saying I wouldn’t follow a hosepipe ban. Water is an essential service, if private companies can’t provide enough then nationalise it.
It’s funny how there’s no restriction on the car wash down our street that is supllied through the mains. If they can be open 11 hours a day there’s enough water for me to hose my garden. If not, use the profits to collect more.
I’m sure if we can mobilize trillions to stop a few hundred grannies and grandpas from dying in the short to medium term, we could do the same to fix our water storage issues to save 70ish million. I’m sick of hearing about it as some kind of world-ending problem when nothing is being done about it.
Tory government: emergency queues it is then!
Well, emergency queues on the streets it is then.
It’s almost like privatisation was a terrible idea and did not, as was promised, improve the quality of the service.
Now that they have taken the water tanks out of our lofts, we have no reserves left. Can anyone explain why the water tanks was removed and no longer install them?.
It’s been absolutely pissing it down all week. What’s happened to all that rainfall?
Only way to protect the Rich is to make sure the poor suffer. Their should be a report how much the Monarchy spends on water daily, just curious if their part of the well will run dry.
So we’ll be facing emergency queues on the streets then
so we’ll be queuing in the streets because we all know they’ll do sweet fa as long as the rich keep getting richer.
also £20 billion divided by the 28 million households in the uk is £715 per household. i’m fairly certain the private water companies are making a similar amount of profit per year from a household. how about they go without for a year or two and fix this?
How fucking inept do you have to be to be facing a water emergency in the fucking UK, where it literally rains 10 months a year
You mean like 1976.
Queues on the streets it is then. I for one am not looking forward to the water wars.
Another issue for the Conservatives to not give a fuck about.
Another “UK” article that is just talking about England and Wales.
Good luck with the compulsory metering, you’ll have to dig up the drives of 3 houses because we’re all on a shared supply.
Plenty of fresh water in Scotland. Could this be the REAL reason Westminster won’t allow independence? 😀
From another water thread a while ago (https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/w0t491/thames_water_urges_household_to_control_their/ighvnly/):
I’ve had a similar email from Affinity water. I might be more sympathetic if the water companies hadn’t closed loads of reservoirs, sold off the land for housing, failed to plug leaks, and given billions in share dividends.
The water loss is 3000 million litres a day or 23% of the water in the system is lost.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45033486
Fix your fucking leaks.
Edit: spelling, and also add thousands of tonnes of sewage flushed into rivers.
Add: found out the water companies have paid out twice as much in dividends than they have spent on infrastructure. Also the leak rate has been approximately ~23% for 20 bloody years.
I hate to be ‘that guy’ to say if you care about water then eat LESS (doesn’t mean you have to be a vegetarian or vegan) meat and dairy, but I am so buckle up.
Household water usage is [under 5% of total water usage](https://grantham.sheffield.ac.uk/how-much-water-does-the-uk-use/), another 5% for industry and the rest agriculture. Of course agriculture is important but start looking at how that is actually used… This very [out of date article](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/aug/20/water.food1) suggests a difference of ~5000 litres used per day on a diet including meat and dairy, versus ~2000 litres a day per person when a vegetarian. Although a majority, 60% ish, of this water usage for diet is water from other countries (because we import a lot). So whilst the UK may not be going through a drought another country may be fine, therefore circumnavigating the problem… I mean, not really but whatever.
It’s worth considering how many litres of water it takes, it varies hugely depending on country and region so even saying ~700 litres may not be representative of the milk you buy in the supermarket, to produce [1 litre of milk.](https://www.statista.com/statistics/1092652/volume-of-water-to-produce-a-liter-of-milk-by-type/) Dairy farmers are also [notoriously bad](https://www.farminguk.com/news/over-60-percent-of-uk-dairy-producers-using-water-inefficiently-_48952.html) with water efficiency.
So yeah, our water companies are shit and definitely should be government owned and water treated as the precious resource it is but at the same time… There are a lot of other factors and things we can be doing.
Edit: Just throwing this out there if you’re curious, but Mike Joy (a New Zealand academic on water) has estimated that it takes up to 11,000 litres of water to produce 1 litre of milk in Canterbury, NZ (one of the most inefficient for diary in the world). [Article here.](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14486563.2022.2068685?journalCode=tjem20)
I honestly didn’t know that England and Wales had privatised water. Do people have to pay monthly, is it not part of you council tax?
We use so much water farming animals, if we just used the water to grow plants and eat those we would be much better off.
The BBC weather presenters have been hinting at water shortages for months, to the point where it was so blatantly “nudge nudge wink wink”, that I suspected drought was being deliberately engineered by the government. Hosepipe bans should’ve been brought in last May. It’s barely rained in the last 12 months. We all know scientists can control the weather. Read up about HAARP. They can make it rain torrentially in Dubai by cloud seeding, so why can’t they make it rain here? It’s much more fun to impose drought on the public, and scare them with “climate change” BS.
Just remember that there is always an INFINITE supply of water.
The only issue is the cost of getting that clean water to our homes.
It can be cheap, via rain fall, or outragously expensive if delivered via Nuclaer Powered desalination plants.