Compulsory water metering

[Mary Fisher]

So don't shop at supemarkets. We don't.

Mary

[Andy Hall]

Which is an inevitable consequence of nationalisation.

That's overstating it a little. In order to stay alive you do need water to drink, but you don't have to buy it from the supplier that delivers it to the taps.

Everything else is a matter of convenience; although granted it would be more than a little inconvenient to have to go to a public toilet in the middle of the night.

[Dave Fawthrop]

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|> [1] water is essential for life, it is also essential for health, | |So is food. | |> it |> should not be and should never have been allowed to be a profit |> making business. | |So don't shop at supemarkets. We don't.

Mary has already admitted to visiting Waitrose.

How the other half lives ;-)

[Mary Fisher]

Home Rule for Yorkshire!

[Mary Fisher]

An earth closet is far superior to a water closet anyway.

[Michael Chare]

What do they do when they install a meter? What happens to the water company stop c*ck?

[<me9]

We were like that at work, we had two meters, one for what came in, and another for what went out to the farm behind. Our bill was for the difference.

[Ian Stirling]

It does permit houses to be built though. There are a number of things that could be required for new developments that could cut water use.

[marble]

and does it reduce pressure or flow?

[F]

Good.

Over the twelve years since I installed our meter we have saved £2370 which is over 53% of what the bill would have been if we had paid old style 'water rates'. For 75% of that time the household consisted of self, wife and two daughters. The latter 25% has been mainly self and wife.

I should add that throughout the time the washing machine has been used until it has been exhausted, the dishwasher hasn't had much of a rest and the garden plants have not been left to become thirsty.

[Joe]

Were you given some kind of estimate beforehand? We were offered a free meter some years ago, and the estimated bill (2 adults, 2 children) was between 20% and 50% more than we were paying unmetered. That was not including any allowance for garden watering, and we had a washing machine but not a dishwasher. We declined.

[mike]

Matt wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Trouble is, all the northerners, (and Scotch, and Welsh, and Irish, and pikeys, and asylum seekers, and organised criminals from all points South and East) are here in the south of England

mike

[Guy King]

The message from Pete C contains these words:

About bloody time. My mother lives in Kent and will happily water her garden with a hose till the cows come home even when the water board are telling her not to. This might make her plant a bit more sensibly.

[Guy King]

The message from [e-mail] (Sponix) contains these words:

The government doesn't build houses.

[Guy King]

The message from Ian Stirling contains these words:

Usually over the heads of the local planning officer on appeal.

[Owain]

I haven't got any spare spending money now. I went to the dentist today.

Owain

[Bob Eager]

It only applies to a small part of Kent. There are two other, bigger, water companies and one of them has gone on record as sayin 'not for a while yet'. The small company that has done this has relatively few customers.

[John Cartmell]

..under Tory governments? ;-)

[dennis]

Err, no.

Err, no.

Err, no.

However it was run down during a nationalised period.

McDonalds, B&Q, BA and all the other industries. All of whom have to charge what is required to modernise.

I live in an area where the water company has been private for the last century and doesn't suffer from any water shortages, or supply difficulties and its one of the cheapest. Just goes to show that nationalisation doesn't equal competence or value for money.

[Matt]

Oh it's ok, you can keep them :)