Well obviously we cant actually enforce any rules on water companies *in re:* fixing leaking pipes. Let’s get that clear from the start. That would not make the foreign shareholders happy.
We can’t fix things, the foreign shareholders would not be happy spending money to keep a decent level of infrastructure.
It’s weird that this data is being collected separately for England rather than the whole country.
All my life Brits have complained about the rain. Now complaining that there’s not enough rain. You just can’t please us lol
Fuck off. It’s day 546 of continuous rain where I live. How about storing it?
How many millions of people have been allowed to move here without building any additional reservoirs? We are talking millions of people. They are not surviving on imported water supplied via a dedicated supply line just for them !
Infrastructure spending is very expensive in the UK. Rather than upgrading sewage treatment facilities, its much cheaper to convince the public there are water shortages so they use less and generate a lower volume of sewerage.
Think critically for a moment – water shortages in one of the wettest countries in Europe where water companies waste 25% of water in leaks – its really about reducing the volume of sewage rather than improving capacity.
Shouldn’t be surprising really. Hopefully now that it’s actually affecting people, support for radical change will increase.
Parts of Devon have a hosepipe ban.
A few days ago in another part of Devon, people’s houses were flooded.
Can’t make this shit up.
According to regulator Ofwat, water companies lost an average of 2,923.8m litres of water a day in 2021-22.
I’m sure some of that could combat the water crisis that’s been aggravated by climate change
> It also wants water companies to reduce leakage in their pipelines; some 20 per cent of the public water supply is lost this way.
Privatised water is such a sinister concept. Yeah, let’s turn this most essential human need into profit-driven monopolies that are immune from accountability and can freely sabotage infrastructure and water security for the sake of their short-termist gains.
just under 3 billion litres (660 million gallons) of water is lost to leaks every day…
I’ve actually been recording this since the electricity prices went up. Where I live, since November there have been 100 days of rain in some form since November 1st 2022.
This is absolute bollocks. If the water companies are struggling for water they need to invest more money in better infrastructure to capture more rain and if they can’t afford that, give it back to the tax payer and let governments run these things instead of shadowy figures.
Mandatory water storage tanks should be required in new houses. This water can be used for toilets and washing. Smaller cisterns would save water in flushing toilets too.
So far this spring has been miserably wet. Hopefully the summer is nicer.
With the energy crisis and gas and electric bills being through the roof, I’m beginning to think that drastic climate change is our only way out. But then again, energy companies would just raise their prices to make up for any lost profits through the planet burning itself out
Instead of trying to fix that they’ll try and take more water from wales, prehaps it’s time to flood another welsh village?
Just build a Nationalised Giant Dam with a hydro electric unit by Magor over the Severn Bridge / Second Severn crossing. This is a no brainer. We need Leaders who understand Engineering and infrastructure and are willing to build it. We currently have Public relations for Big Business.
In other news the pope wears a funny hat and bears do indeed relive themselves in the woods.
A significant fear regarding climate change is the effect, on a large scale, of drought in the tropical regions of the world, which would have much wider implications, affecting regions such as Europe, due to the impact on the global food supply as well as human migration.
Moved from a water scarce country to the UK two years ago. What struck me is the general lack of a water saving culture amongst most people. Long showers, taps are left open while washing dishes and dripping faucets are not fixed. The general population needs to be educated about saving water year round, it needs to become a habit.
Main problem seems to be we still use Victorian infrastructure designed for a certain population number which has increased dramatically so the water supply is insufficient as is the sewerage.
We keep building houses and the population keeps growing at a scary rate yet we don’t build in support. Over population is the root cause right now not global warming. Thing’s will get worse until we build more storage.
Why do people pretend to care about this? Y’all call for the jailing and even death of this ewho block a road of this
Let’s be honest – the government does not have a water management strategy for the country. There’s no overarching plan for expanding the reservoirs (if they really wanted they could push through anything, it never stops them from stealing money), reining in water companies (with the level of public subsidy paid they should be made public again), investing in new pipework and anti-flood infrastructure and most importantly, tailoring water resources to both shifting climate AND growing population.
The fact that UK is hosting more and more people each year but infrastructure is not growing to match it is something that is just plain forgotten about.
With both population growth, expansion of paved terrain and loss of free land/soil that acted as a sponge around urban areas, water shortage is only going to get worse without planning. Currently, no major housing developer even blinks as he tacks on another mile of water pipework to the system and another square mile of sterile lawns, and no minister even raises water infrastructure as an area in need of major rectification.
Public perception of government performance must shift from tabloid topics and onto areas of real significance, like power and water. But sadly those are never interesting to read about.
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Well obviously we cant actually enforce any rules on water companies *in re:* fixing leaking pipes. Let’s get that clear from the start. That would not make the foreign shareholders happy.
We can’t fix things, the foreign shareholders would not be happy spending money to keep a decent level of infrastructure.
It’s weird that this data is being collected separately for England rather than the whole country.
All my life Brits have complained about the rain. Now complaining that there’s not enough rain. You just can’t please us lol
Fuck off. It’s day 546 of continuous rain where I live. How about storing it?
How many millions of people have been allowed to move here without building any additional reservoirs? We are talking millions of people. They are not surviving on imported water supplied via a dedicated supply line just for them !
Infrastructure spending is very expensive in the UK. Rather than upgrading sewage treatment facilities, its much cheaper to convince the public there are water shortages so they use less and generate a lower volume of sewerage.
Think critically for a moment – water shortages in one of the wettest countries in Europe where water companies waste 25% of water in leaks – its really about reducing the volume of sewage rather than improving capacity.
Shouldn’t be surprising really. Hopefully now that it’s actually affecting people, support for radical change will increase.
Parts of Devon have a hosepipe ban.
A few days ago in another part of Devon, people’s houses were flooded.
Can’t make this shit up.
According to regulator Ofwat, water companies lost an average of 2,923.8m litres of water a day in 2021-22.
I’m sure some of that could combat the water crisis that’s been aggravated by climate change
> It also wants water companies to reduce leakage in their pipelines; some 20 per cent of the public water supply is lost this way.
Privatised water is such a sinister concept. Yeah, let’s turn this most essential human need into profit-driven monopolies that are immune from accountability and can freely sabotage infrastructure and water security for the sake of their short-termist gains.
just under 3 billion litres (660 million gallons) of water is lost to leaks every day…
[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53274914](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53274914)
I’ve actually been recording this since the electricity prices went up. Where I live, since November there have been 100 days of rain in some form since November 1st 2022.
This is absolute bollocks. If the water companies are struggling for water they need to invest more money in better infrastructure to capture more rain and if they can’t afford that, give it back to the tax payer and let governments run these things instead of shadowy figures.
Mandatory water storage tanks should be required in new houses. This water can be used for toilets and washing. Smaller cisterns would save water in flushing toilets too.
So far this spring has been miserably wet. Hopefully the summer is nicer.
With the energy crisis and gas and electric bills being through the roof, I’m beginning to think that drastic climate change is our only way out. But then again, energy companies would just raise their prices to make up for any lost profits through the planet burning itself out
Instead of trying to fix that they’ll try and take more water from wales, prehaps it’s time to flood another welsh village?
Just build a Nationalised Giant Dam with a hydro electric unit by Magor over the Severn Bridge / Second Severn crossing. This is a no brainer. We need Leaders who understand Engineering and infrastructure and are willing to build it. We currently have Public relations for Big Business.
In other news the pope wears a funny hat and bears do indeed relive themselves in the woods.
A significant fear regarding climate change is the effect, on a large scale, of drought in the tropical regions of the world, which would have much wider implications, affecting regions such as Europe, due to the impact on the global food supply as well as human migration.
Moved from a water scarce country to the UK two years ago. What struck me is the general lack of a water saving culture amongst most people. Long showers, taps are left open while washing dishes and dripping faucets are not fixed. The general population needs to be educated about saving water year round, it needs to become a habit.
Main problem seems to be we still use Victorian infrastructure designed for a certain population number which has increased dramatically so the water supply is insufficient as is the sewerage.
We keep building houses and the population keeps growing at a scary rate yet we don’t build in support. Over population is the root cause right now not global warming. Thing’s will get worse until we build more storage.
Why do people pretend to care about this? Y’all call for the jailing and even death of this ewho block a road of this
Let’s be honest – the government does not have a water management strategy for the country. There’s no overarching plan for expanding the reservoirs (if they really wanted they could push through anything, it never stops them from stealing money), reining in water companies (with the level of public subsidy paid they should be made public again), investing in new pipework and anti-flood infrastructure and most importantly, tailoring water resources to both shifting climate AND growing population.
The fact that UK is hosting more and more people each year but infrastructure is not growing to match it is something that is just plain forgotten about.
With both population growth, expansion of paved terrain and loss of free land/soil that acted as a sponge around urban areas, water shortage is only going to get worse without planning. Currently, no major housing developer even blinks as he tacks on another mile of water pipework to the system and another square mile of sterile lawns, and no minister even raises water infrastructure as an area in need of major rectification.
Public perception of government performance must shift from tabloid topics and onto areas of real significance, like power and water. But sadly those are never interesting to read about.