You are dead right. They want to keep paying dividends, when they should be uprating the water infrastructure. Their view is stop them using lost of water and tell them we don't have much at all.
They do the same with land, another natural resource. They tell us we don't have land in the UK, when we have a land surplus. In a country of 60 million, only 7.5% is settled, and when green spaces are taken into account only 2.5% is paved. Ramming us all into a small sector of the land hikes up house prices as land is about 2/3 of the price of the average house. Just what they want, a nice little (er massive) earner on our behalf.
He said "We have so much we can and do throw lots away every day". If you are foolish to go to desert restrictions on water, when there is no need to, then that is your problem.
I believe further water conserving legislation should be in place, but there is no need to treat water as if it is gold.
Yup! and theres such things a destroying the atmosphere ie rockets burning a hole in the ozone layer with the help of aviation fuel being burnt in ionosphere.
The biggest wasters of all by FAR are the water companies themselves.
Water meters are a completely ludicrous idea in the UK and meters are only being installed and promoted so that the water companies can make higher profits for less effort.
As many have said - we have an abundance of water in this country. If the water companies fixed the leaks in their systems I *might* be more sympathetic to the idea of metering but it's a LOT cheaper to install meters than it is to fix leaks or build a method of transferring water from the places that have too much to places that have too little.
Water rates are (should be) to pay for the infrastructure of the water supply and its maintenance, not to pay dividends to shareholders. It shouldn't cost any water company significantly more to supply 1 cubic meter of water to a house than it does to supply 1000 cubic meters if it got its act together.
I would never buy a house with a water meter installed nor would I ever consider having one installed in my house until the inevitable day when they become compulsary. Once that day comes, all those smart-arses who drone on about how a meter saves money for the average user will (assuming they are not major shareholders in a water company of course) have a rude awakening when the "major water shortage" causes a price hike well above the old cost of water rates and they are forced to help the companies make even more profit by extensive and unnecessary water saving measures.
All this applies in the UK only of course. Should we ever get to a point where global warming/climate change reduces the surface water and rainfall in the UK to levels that truly mean that there isn't enough to go round then I would expect desalination plants and metering to be introduced as a necessity.
We are not in sesert. We are in wet and damp large island surrounded by water with high rainfall.
We have an abundance of water and having severe restriction on usage is pointless. It is like being on a large desert island crammed with banana trees and you conserve bananas. Pointless.
Mary, you have missed the main point that emerged from this thread. You can only waste something that there is a scarcity of. There is no water shortage in the UK.
And not just the water, of course, All the energy entailed in purifying it and pumping it. But presumably there's an infinite supply of energy in Britain as well as of water? Douglas de Lacey
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