About time to introduce a fine per lost litre, then see just how quickly it gets fixed
Seize all utilities, fine the current owners for every litre leaked and put them in prison.
The government (via ofwat) sets the leakage target for the water companies, the water companies perform very well against these targets, and since privation investment into the water network has increased significantly.
You have to love the lumping of Wales into this headline; it feels somewhat disingenuous, when the top 5 as noted in the article itself are responsible for 701bn litres of that 1tn loss – and all 5 are in England. Hell, just the top 3 are responsible for over half of the losses.
Quality reporting from the Guardian, as always.
I don’t have any knowledge of our water infrastructure, can anyone explain the impact of this? Does it just go back to being groundwater and eventually end up in lakes, rivers etc? If so what effect does this have on our environment and ecosystems because I assume a lot of the lost water is chlorinated.
Fun fact, one trillion litres is one kilometer cubed of water.
According to the world bank there are 147 cubic kilometers of fresh renewable water in the UK.
So this amounts to just under 0.7% of our total renewable water resources. My feeling is that sounds like not much but is actually a fairly large amount.
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About time to introduce a fine per lost litre, then see just how quickly it gets fixed
Seize all utilities, fine the current owners for every litre leaked and put them in prison.
The government (via ofwat) sets the leakage target for the water companies, the water companies perform very well against these targets, and since privation investment into the water network has increased significantly.
You have to love the lumping of Wales into this headline; it feels somewhat disingenuous, when the top 5 as noted in the article itself are responsible for 701bn litres of that 1tn loss – and all 5 are in England. Hell, just the top 3 are responsible for over half of the losses.
Quality reporting from the Guardian, as always.
I don’t have any knowledge of our water infrastructure, can anyone explain the impact of this? Does it just go back to being groundwater and eventually end up in lakes, rivers etc? If so what effect does this have on our environment and ecosystems because I assume a lot of the lost water is chlorinated.
Fun fact, one trillion litres is one kilometer cubed of water.
According to the world bank there are 147 cubic kilometers of fresh renewable water in the UK.
So this amounts to just under 0.7% of our total renewable water resources. My feeling is that sounds like not much but is actually a fairly large amount.