Mainly because they under man their teams and run at skeleton numbers at all times.
It’s amazing how under staffed the energy, water and communication services are.
Common issue, they are all privately owned and the main aim is to make the shareholders as much cash as possible
Could they not just hire more than one guy?
Absolutely fucking lovely, more good news.
As long as the shareholders are getting rich though that’s all that matters.
It would be quicker to just replace the water companies and do it ourselves.
It didn’t take 2000 years to build seems like a shit number they pulled outta thin air
~~ROMANES EUNT DOMUS~~ Romani revertentur
Best crack on then
Ok, so provide the money and resource to do it quicker. I presume noone who’s whinged here would complain about your roads having more roadworks and more water stops whilst work is completed.
Maybe they could re line them with something instead of replacing them like that video im sure we have all seen
Liz Truss still promising to get it done in the next parliament, though…
They best get started then
Pretty sure it didn’t take 2000years to lay the ones we have. Just corrupt privately owned companies not wanting to do anything so more money goes to shareholders
Can anyone put this into perspective? The article said 1tn litres are lost a year; is that a lot? Like how much does the country use annually?
How about no dividents or CEO bonus payment till it’s fixed? You bet it will be fixed in 3 weeks…
You know in Civ you get ridiculous things like it taking 40 years to train a guy to wack another guy with a stick?
This is that irl.
Does anyone really think that we will still have a populated planet in 2,000 years?
Error so about the time of the techno Barbarians then ?
Lol it didn’t take 2000 years to build tho
Better get started then, ay lads
Better get started then, lads.
So they admin they can’t run the water companies correctly and so want to hand them back to the country at no cost?
Because as far as im concerned that’s exactly what is being said.
Maybe if done one after another, but thankfully there are several water companies who have several teams who should be able to be deployed to reduce this time significantly.
Well they better get started now then.
Prob best get started then
Much like out water ways, the government is full of shit
Well, it didn’t take them 2000 years to put it there in the first place, so…
more money for my homies in CEO positions. we got to make sure they take millions home to feed their rich life style and greed. we dont deserve good things but our rich overlords do. /s
Just total lies, in the 1800s there was no sewage or fresh water supply infrastructure, even into the late 1890s housed had wells and human waste was collected dry in buckets and used as fertiliser. So being very fair it has taken less than 200 years to get where we are now so no way on earth with modern technology 50 years at most is required including the ability to move large amounts of water from flooded to dry areas. Nationalise water and sewage and invest heavily for our future generations plus throw the board members of these companies into jail and loose the key
Is the start date for any repair work 4021?
Or rather, they chose to take two thousand years because they get a slap on the wrist for sewage being dumped in the sea and rivers, a slap on the wrist for causing droughts etc… They will never update the network unless they are forced to.
Well maybe should of started 30 years ago them, got a head start !
This is what you get for voting in Tories.
They have done this everytime they were in power.
I work in the water industry contracting to the water boards. They’re hilariously inefficient because they will never take advice on things that saves them time and money.
Every time we get a job, we need to organise traffic management, every time we do, we’ll recommend they use our traffic management we hire to get things done themselves that need doing… and by the time it gets passed from every man and his dog, the permit window gets missed and we’re onto them having to do it another week, which then means we have to wait that long if we need them to get that sorted first as well…
There’s so little thought to thinking ahead to avoid later costs and increase efficiency. It’s mind-numbing.
So while the Tories are still in power?
Shareholding being the primary driver and a weak as f&£k regulator (colluding in my opinion) is wrong .especially with water.
There is no competition, at least with gas and electric you used to be able to shop about. Water nope!
Either re nationalise or Ofwat should be given 3 rules
1- a maximum profit margin allowed ..1-2%
2- bonus profit if they meet pipe renewal and customer service targets .
3- any f ups sewerage leaks etc come out of that profit
What they really mean is that maintenance does not keep up with the ageing of the system, and the pipes are basically crumbling in front of our eyes.
We need to spend a lot more money on maintenance to even maintain a basic level of system operation.
That being said, we just had all the roads dug up and all the old iron pipes replaced by plastic. Let’s hope that they will last those 2000 years until they get round again.
Then why do they add an infrastructure charge to the bill?
We are going to end up paying this with higher bills ,might as well nationalise them.
Yeah they’ll just take the money now and never do the work, simple.
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Mainly because they under man their teams and run at skeleton numbers at all times.
It’s amazing how under staffed the energy, water and communication services are.
Common issue, they are all privately owned and the main aim is to make the shareholders as much cash as possible
Could they not just hire more than one guy?
Absolutely fucking lovely, more good news.
As long as the shareholders are getting rich though that’s all that matters.
It would be quicker to just replace the water companies and do it ourselves.
It didn’t take 2000 years to build seems like a shit number they pulled outta thin air
~~ROMANES EUNT DOMUS~~ Romani revertentur
Best crack on then
Ok, so provide the money and resource to do it quicker. I presume noone who’s whinged here would complain about your roads having more roadworks and more water stops whilst work is completed.
Maybe they could re line them with something instead of replacing them like that video im sure we have all seen
Liz Truss still promising to get it done in the next parliament, though…
They best get started then
Pretty sure it didn’t take 2000years to lay the ones we have. Just corrupt privately owned companies not wanting to do anything so more money goes to shareholders
Can anyone put this into perspective? The article said 1tn litres are lost a year; is that a lot? Like how much does the country use annually?
How about no dividents or CEO bonus payment till it’s fixed? You bet it will be fixed in 3 weeks…
You know in Civ you get ridiculous things like it taking 40 years to train a guy to wack another guy with a stick?
This is that irl.
Does anyone really think that we will still have a populated planet in 2,000 years?
Error so about the time of the techno Barbarians then ?
Lol it didn’t take 2000 years to build tho
Better get started then, ay lads
Better get started then, lads.
So they admin they can’t run the water companies correctly and so want to hand them back to the country at no cost?
Because as far as im concerned that’s exactly what is being said.
Maybe if done one after another, but thankfully there are several water companies who have several teams who should be able to be deployed to reduce this time significantly.
Well they better get started now then.
Prob best get started then
Much like out water ways, the government is full of shit
Well, it didn’t take them 2000 years to put it there in the first place, so…
more money for my homies in CEO positions. we got to make sure they take millions home to feed their rich life style and greed. we dont deserve good things but our rich overlords do. /s
Just total lies, in the 1800s there was no sewage or fresh water supply infrastructure, even into the late 1890s housed had wells and human waste was collected dry in buckets and used as fertiliser. So being very fair it has taken less than 200 years to get where we are now so no way on earth with modern technology 50 years at most is required including the ability to move large amounts of water from flooded to dry areas. Nationalise water and sewage and invest heavily for our future generations plus throw the board members of these companies into jail and loose the key
Is the start date for any repair work 4021?
Or rather, they chose to take two thousand years because they get a slap on the wrist for sewage being dumped in the sea and rivers, a slap on the wrist for causing droughts etc… They will never update the network unless they are forced to.
Well maybe should of started 30 years ago them, got a head start !
This is what you get for voting in Tories.
They have done this everytime they were in power.
I work in the water industry contracting to the water boards. They’re hilariously inefficient because they will never take advice on things that saves them time and money.
Every time we get a job, we need to organise traffic management, every time we do, we’ll recommend they use our traffic management we hire to get things done themselves that need doing… and by the time it gets passed from every man and his dog, the permit window gets missed and we’re onto them having to do it another week, which then means we have to wait that long if we need them to get that sorted first as well…
There’s so little thought to thinking ahead to avoid later costs and increase efficiency. It’s mind-numbing.
So while the Tories are still in power?
Shareholding being the primary driver and a weak as f&£k regulator (colluding in my opinion) is wrong .especially with water.
There is no competition, at least with gas and electric you used to be able to shop about. Water nope!
Either re nationalise or Ofwat should be given 3 rules
1- a maximum profit margin allowed ..1-2%
2- bonus profit if they meet pipe renewal and customer service targets .
3- any f ups sewerage leaks etc come out of that profit
What they really mean is that maintenance does not keep up with the ageing of the system, and the pipes are basically crumbling in front of our eyes.
We need to spend a lot more money on maintenance to even maintain a basic level of system operation.
That being said, we just had all the roads dug up and all the old iron pipes replaced by plastic. Let’s hope that they will last those 2000 years until they get round again.
Then why do they add an infrastructure charge to the bill?
We are going to end up paying this with higher bills ,might as well nationalise them.
Yeah they’ll just take the money now and never do the work, simple.