Point taken LG and noted I don't read newspapers so can't comment from personal experience, I get some nice people at the BBC World Service to check stuff out and tell me about it whilst I'm resting - had to give up the Shipping Forecast as I was asleep by the time they got to Solent
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Credit to Severn Trent, although this is only tangentially related to the OP. A couple of weeks back we had a burst water main and no supply whatsoever in the village. This was at 11.00 am. About 3.00 pm they sent out a whippersnapper, probably a YTS trainee with a GNVQ in line painting, who marked a blue cross on the road where the torrent started. By midnight the engineers were here and at 5.00 am water was restored. Two hours later, 7.00 am, they delivered 48 (!) half litre bottles of water to each house. Then last week we received a letter giving us £30 compensation for the inconvenience.
If you’ve paid extra to use a hose pipe, and I believe this might be the policy in some areas, it seems only just you should get a pro rata refund.
Jason milly! Good grief! wanting a refund because it has not rained.
Come on! If we don't get the rain we had better "blame God" for non provision of services. My mind is boggling. The rain has not fallen. The reservoirs were full in the early part of the year. We have had exceptionally hot weather evaporating the water from reservoirs. why should we get refunds?
We need water for essential use. In the grand scheme of things people and food are more important than our decorative flowers. Yes I am very worried about my plants.
Be glad we are not in the areas of Africa where people die for want of enough clean water to drink. B****r the gardens.
One major point you seem to be missing is the amount of water lost by water companies to leakages in the mains water supply and bursts resulting from poor maintenance and lack of investment to replace pipes installed in the Victorian period to serve much smaller populations.
There was one news report that said the company in charge of delivering water to the north west conurbations only loses 27% of its supply to leaks and this is considered good to acceptable. Thames Water is currently losing 680million litres a day to leaks - https://www.thameswater.co.uk/Help-and-Advice/Leaks/Our-leakage-performance
If they were forced to fix those leaks you'd all have better water pressure and could all install seep hoses on timers - more efficient than standing there with a spray gun or leaving a sprinkler on. If every house was metered there would be less waste too. The Flemish water company in Belgium currently loses 180million litres a day (€280m of clean water a year) and that is considered to be scandalous.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Well lam weedy like mentioned above by obelixx who seems to be on my wave length, I take note that water out of hose pipes are for not drinking, but I don't think at the end of the year the water board share holders will say they are not excepting there dividends, and like mention above no investment put in, and if we are talking about other countries how do Spain and other hot countries manage they don't have hose bans always watering there plants
We went to see my husband's relatives in California and Oregon. They have sprinkler systems on a timer, they come on morning and evening. The Oregon family live in a new build, and didn't even have to install it, it comes as standard. The lady in northern California also pays for electricity to dry her washing, although the climate would do it for nothing. Why worry? If they run short, they can just build a dam and flood another valley.
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If you’ve paid extra to use a hose pipe, and I believe this might be the policy in some areas, it seems only just you should get a pro rata refund.
My mind is boggling.
The rain has not fallen. The reservoirs were full in the early part of the year. We have had exceptionally hot weather evaporating the water from reservoirs.
why should we get refunds?
We need water for essential use. In the grand scheme of things people and food are more important than our decorative flowers. Yes I am very worried about my plants.
Be glad we are not in the areas of Africa where people die for want of enough clean water to drink. B****r the gardens.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
There was one news report that said the company in charge of delivering water to the north west conurbations only loses 27% of its supply to leaks and this is considered good to acceptable. Thames Water is currently losing 680million litres a day to leaks - https://www.thameswater.co.uk/Help-and-Advice/Leaks/Our-leakage-performance
If they were forced to fix those leaks you'd all have better water pressure and could all install seep hoses on timers - more efficient than standing there with a spray gun or leaving a sprinkler on. If every house was metered there would be less waste too. The Flemish water company in Belgium currently loses 180million litres a day (€280m of clean water a year) and that is considered to be scandalous.