I have colleagues and deliver to customers who do not have mains water. Maybe if the water companies fixed their leaks and gave everyone a meter, less would be wasted. In the mean time I'm using my sprinkler. If the powers that be can't harvest and store enough of the rain that falls on Devon, then they are even less "fit for purpose" than I think them now.
@Fire that's what's happened here. Instead of fixing the leaks and replacing the old pipes, the ingenious gobs***es in Dublin have decided to pump water from the Shannon River (West coast)to Dublin (East coast).
I have just watched last week's GW episode on rain gardens (as mentioned). We have several locally, which were all tested in May's downpours. It was their first real deluge and they all passed with flying colours. All the roads that usually flood badly, were clear and cars could get through, the roundabout wasn't under water. We have five underground streams and rivers that meet at the point in the pictures.
The culverts that drain into the 'garden' need clearing regularly, which our council seem sloppy at. It's such a small thing, to clear a drain, but all the gardens fail if the little job isn't done. We have a volunteer that goes and checks them. Which is why they worked in May.
i have six water butts, they hold a total of over 1500 ltrs of water, and they've been dry for about two weeks now, haven't had any decent rain (we had two thunderstorms) since the end of April
was the gist of it. Many water companies are paying more in dividends than they make in profit ( storing up debt ) and that water prices have risen 40% above inflation since "privitisation"
But who an earth tries to make money out of rain, or drains or trains or keeping people well? These are key services that need a lot of money put in to make them work well, not taken out for profit. The whole notion is badly cock-eyed. It always was.
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Maybe if the water companies fixed their leaks and gave everyone a meter, less would be wasted. In the mean time I'm using my sprinkler.
If the powers that be can't harvest and store enough of the rain that falls on Devon, then they are even less "fit for purpose" than I think them now.
Interesting reading.
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Privatised water costs consumers £2.3bn more a year, study says ..."
was the gist of it.Many water companies are paying more in dividends than they make in profit ( storing up debt ) and that water prices have risen 40% above inflation since "privitisation"