I’m always being told I need to drink more water, I guarantee I ain’t using 133 litres
ive been buying water from lidl since fucking march due to a boil water notice…. so irish water can fuck right off and fix my supply
For that I’ll use 266 litres a day now.
That seems a bit high.
I was all ready to slam this as being Irish water passing off leaky pipes loss and hiding it in average usage calculations.
Then again,
– Average toilet flush 8-9 Litres. Maybe 5 per day? so 45-50Litres per day.
– Average dishwasher cycle about 10 litres.
– Average washing machine cycle about 55 litres
The “average” per person (including kids) at 133 litres still sounds high. But I wouldn’t think twice about it being 80 or 90.
Sign up to smart meter to use dishwasher/washing machine at night.
Water gets turned off at night.
Still not paying water charges. They can fuck right off back to whatever waterhole they game from.
I’m astonished that the spokesperson didn’t mention ‘customers’ once. Irish Water love treating the public as walking Euro signs.
Are you actually fucking kidding me. There was heavy rain only a week ago.
Absolutely not while there is some corporations that I know for a fact are putting over 50k liters of water to drain every day. Government needs to crack down on corporation waste before the average civilian
How could there possibly be a shortage of water after the July that we had?
I really dislike how water companies, here and in other countries, always try to put the pressure on the general public, while the main water users, often very inefficient, are first of all agriculture and then industry, but hey, they are untouchable! It is true that all of us can improve our water efficiency, but I miss seeing the same amount of pressure towards those stakeholders.
After 2 months non stop rain,
Less than a weeks of sunshine and they are off already….
​
*Piss off while we all catch up on our washing, it’s due to end within next 48 hours anyway*
There’s a bang of nostalgia about a water related post here. There was a time there were daily outrage posts about leaking pipes and water on this sub.
Am I right to understand that as 37% of all treated water is lost to leakages in the system? I’m sure the 133 litres are separate to that but what volume is 37% of all treated water?
I listened to the rather nervous IW representative on Morning Ireland and it was clear what the subtext was. “We are shite you have to bail us out”
Sorry lads yesterday i left the garden hose running, my mistake wont happen again
This is nothing in the grand scheme of things. My job had no water due to a major pipe burst, it supplies the water, so we went to the back up tank. Cutting it short in the process of doing this we discovered that we had an old pipe leaking.
Thousands of litres of water a week was being wasted, Irish water basically said “fuck you, your problem”, so we had to work a fix round. But it took us months to do this as we simply couldn’t get the money to dig up and replace the pipe. I’d say there are many other government facilities with ageing pipes that have this problem, but can’t get money to fix it.
How much are the data centres using?
We really should conserve more water. Its actually kinda expensive to treat every drip we use (except for the cases of boil water notice) to the point that even the water we flush our toilets with is fit to drink (it is, I swear). Like, one of the simplest things we can all do to improve our communal mindset is encourage each other to be a bit more thoughtful of our water use. I assume I will now get downvoted to oblivion. Thanks for all the decent craic.
It wasn’t me boss, it was the neighbour filing the pool/paddling pool/outdoor hot tub for the annual 3 days of summer
People connected to the mains should pay for their water but that water should be clean and safe and at a suitable pressure. The service should include protections for a leak after the meter so if someone is unfortunate enough to have a leak that they shouldn’t get a shock on their bill.
In an ideal world this would be public run with competent people or private with plenty of regulations and competition
There’s no a hope I use that much I only use 35.135 gallons a day and no more.
On what planet are people using 133 litres of water a day? I have a well and a 5 person household if we used that much we’d have an empty well quick enough. Is this another Irish water says people use this much but it turns out 4/5ths of this is leaking water?
It’s literally rained for 2 months non and they’re putting the onus on us to limit our water instead of the government putting adequate reserve supplies in place. Ireland.
1st world country they say…lol
I’m interested in knowing how many people here suffering a boil water notice are on the public supply as opposed to a group water supply?
Okay how much water does industry use on a per person basis? I would garner a lot more. Ask them to reduce by 5% for the shortfall. Or better yet fix the leaks the government let wallow the last 40 years
I already use the eco mode on dishwasher and washing machine. Recently upgraded my toilet flusher to a very low flow model and I drink pre bottled water as the water here in Dublin smells of choramine, used to well water back home thankfully so find it difficult to drink it
If only there was a way to figure out how much water people were using and charge people who use a lot.
Oh fuck off
Is this factoring in things like the water usage of our foods?
After that’s wash out of a summer we have to conserve water??
Nah mate, you can fuck off
That’s 4m3 a month which is STANDARD in developed countries that have less water resources.
This is just lobbying corporation lobbying.
Might this be a little bit tone deaf considering we’re currently experiencing a completely abnormal heatwave and there’s a high temperatures weather warning for this weekend?
No chance I use that much water a day. Who came up with this?
Water on the south side of cork city has tasted like mildew/mould the past couple of weeks so have had to buy bottled water. Irish water talking through its ass
1.80 for waste water? The water gets dumped before process, after pretreatment so it just goes to drain. Only post process waste is removed from site
It doesn’t fall out of the sky lads. Conserve the auld water before it all runs out.
133 litres a day – Are you fucking serious. Like who can credibly stand over a figure like that and say oh yeah that makes sense.
They don’t even say how they have come to that figure. At one point they mention a survey where folks say oh yeah we feel we waste a little bit of water. That doesn’t answer the question.
The per capita flow of an average household is 240L/day, so 133 seems high
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I’m always being told I need to drink more water, I guarantee I ain’t using 133 litres
ive been buying water from lidl since fucking march due to a boil water notice…. so irish water can fuck right off and fix my supply
For that I’ll use 266 litres a day now.
That seems a bit high.
I was all ready to slam this as being Irish water passing off leaky pipes loss and hiding it in average usage calculations.
Then again,
– Average toilet flush 8-9 Litres. Maybe 5 per day? so 45-50Litres per day.
– Average dishwasher cycle about 10 litres.
– Average washing machine cycle about 55 litres
The “average” per person (including kids) at 133 litres still sounds high. But I wouldn’t think twice about it being 80 or 90.
Sign up to smart meter to use dishwasher/washing machine at night.
Water gets turned off at night.
Still not paying water charges. They can fuck right off back to whatever waterhole they game from.
I’m astonished that the spokesperson didn’t mention ‘customers’ once. Irish Water love treating the public as walking Euro signs.
Are you actually fucking kidding me. There was heavy rain only a week ago.
Absolutely not while there is some corporations that I know for a fact are putting over 50k liters of water to drain every day. Government needs to crack down on corporation waste before the average civilian
How could there possibly be a shortage of water after the July that we had?
I really dislike how water companies, here and in other countries, always try to put the pressure on the general public, while the main water users, often very inefficient, are first of all agriculture and then industry, but hey, they are untouchable! It is true that all of us can improve our water efficiency, but I miss seeing the same amount of pressure towards those stakeholders.
After 2 months non stop rain,
Less than a weeks of sunshine and they are off already….
​
*Piss off while we all catch up on our washing, it’s due to end within next 48 hours anyway*
There’s a bang of nostalgia about a water related post here. There was a time there were daily outrage posts about leaking pipes and water on this sub.
Straight from the IW website..
[https://www.water.ie/projects/national-projects/leakage-reduction-programme/#:~:text=Every%20day%20we%20currently%20lose,network%20of%20pipes%20below%20ground](https://www.water.ie/projects/national-projects/leakage-reduction-programme/#:~:text=Every%20day%20we%20currently%20lose,network%20of%20pipes%20below%20ground).
https://preview.redd.it/fce3wyqrqtmb1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d1f5854c24be75e69e568e0a59a82f66eb0950cf
Am I right to understand that as 37% of all treated water is lost to leakages in the system? I’m sure the 133 litres are separate to that but what volume is 37% of all treated water?
I listened to the rather nervous IW representative on Morning Ireland and it was clear what the subtext was. “We are shite you have to bail us out”
Sorry lads yesterday i left the garden hose running, my mistake wont happen again
This is nothing in the grand scheme of things. My job had no water due to a major pipe burst, it supplies the water, so we went to the back up tank. Cutting it short in the process of doing this we discovered that we had an old pipe leaking.
Thousands of litres of water a week was being wasted, Irish water basically said “fuck you, your problem”, so we had to work a fix round. But it took us months to do this as we simply couldn’t get the money to dig up and replace the pipe. I’d say there are many other government facilities with ageing pipes that have this problem, but can’t get money to fix it.
How much are the data centres using?
We really should conserve more water. Its actually kinda expensive to treat every drip we use (except for the cases of boil water notice) to the point that even the water we flush our toilets with is fit to drink (it is, I swear). Like, one of the simplest things we can all do to improve our communal mindset is encourage each other to be a bit more thoughtful of our water use. I assume I will now get downvoted to oblivion. Thanks for all the decent craic.
It wasn’t me boss, it was the neighbour filing the pool/paddling pool/outdoor hot tub for the annual 3 days of summer
People connected to the mains should pay for their water but that water should be clean and safe and at a suitable pressure. The service should include protections for a leak after the meter so if someone is unfortunate enough to have a leak that they shouldn’t get a shock on their bill.
In an ideal world this would be public run with competent people or private with plenty of regulations and competition
There’s no a hope I use that much I only use 35.135 gallons a day and no more.
On what planet are people using 133 litres of water a day? I have a well and a 5 person household if we used that much we’d have an empty well quick enough. Is this another Irish water says people use this much but it turns out 4/5ths of this is leaking water?
It’s literally rained for 2 months non and they’re putting the onus on us to limit our water instead of the government putting adequate reserve supplies in place. Ireland.
1st world country they say…lol
I’m interested in knowing how many people here suffering a boil water notice are on the public supply as opposed to a group water supply?
Okay how much water does industry use on a per person basis? I would garner a lot more. Ask them to reduce by 5% for the shortfall. Or better yet fix the leaks the government let wallow the last 40 years
I already use the eco mode on dishwasher and washing machine. Recently upgraded my toilet flusher to a very low flow model and I drink pre bottled water as the water here in Dublin smells of choramine, used to well water back home thankfully so find it difficult to drink it
If only there was a way to figure out how much water people were using and charge people who use a lot.
Oh fuck off
Is this factoring in things like the water usage of our foods?
After that’s wash out of a summer we have to conserve water??
Nah mate, you can fuck off
That’s 4m3 a month which is STANDARD in developed countries that have less water resources.
This is just lobbying corporation lobbying.
Might this be a little bit tone deaf considering we’re currently experiencing a completely abnormal heatwave and there’s a high temperatures weather warning for this weekend?
No chance I use that much water a day. Who came up with this?
Water on the south side of cork city has tasted like mildew/mould the past couple of weeks so have had to buy bottled water. Irish water talking through its ass
1.80 for waste water? The water gets dumped before process, after pretreatment so it just goes to drain. Only post process waste is removed from site
It doesn’t fall out of the sky lads. Conserve the auld water before it all runs out.
133 litres a day – Are you fucking serious. Like who can credibly stand over a figure like that and say oh yeah that makes sense.
They don’t even say how they have come to that figure. At one point they mention a survey where folks say oh yeah we feel we waste a little bit of water. That doesn’t answer the question.
The per capita flow of an average household is 240L/day, so 133 seems high