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1 hour ago, motty said:

Well I have worked for a water company for the last 14 years, so I know a little bit about these things. Ofwat do not just criticise, there are massive financial implications for companies that don't prevent/fix leaks. Fixing big leaks are a priority, but it is not simple. Council/highways etc can prohibit work.

By the way, it is difficult to regularly inspect a water main that is underground!

Of course the job you are employed to do, determines whether you actually know what you are talking about! But If it's a priority? Then why do the water companies continually get criticised for wasting water by failing to repair thousands of leaks? 

As for pipe/water main inspections.................Can the water companies not afford specialist cameras? 

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3 minutes ago, Mice! said:

well its ok in Ireland all swimming pools have closed lanes 7 & 8 to save water.

? ? its coming home.......

As long as they don't continue asking the bathers to wring their swimming costumes out before leaving the water eh? 

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On 06/07/2018 at 17:37, ditchman said:

this is what happens when you sell off the crown jewles

  • profits go to the shareholders.not the infrastructure
  • reservoirs are too expensive to build so they rape the groundwater aqifires
  • rivers you knew as a boy dry up
  • they sack the water baliffes who managed the replenishment of the water table
  • you are now allowed to build on flood plains if you balance...which even if you have a heck ras model dont work
  • how many reservoirs have been built since privatisation ?
  • why do they spend more time mending the network instead of replacing 100 year old pipe work
  • how much has the population increased by ?

 

the whole thing is a sickening joke ...and we just lay down and take it............and they laugh cause they know the british public are thick and stupid....we fund their lifestyles...and they get away by doing the bare minimum

 

rant over.....

 

dont get me started

Of course you are correct Ditchie, the derision now encountered by anyone with enough common sense to want to keep control of our utilities is simply beyond belief. All gone now, Germany I believe had more sense by enabling a reasonable profit but retaining overall cost control?

Never mind. Wait and see how much the shareholders care about the masses when the NHS finally goes. Shocks all round about the joys of privatisation probably or eventually?

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hello, looks like this hot weather will continue for a few more weeks although rain is forcast in north UK and Scotland but us southern folk will still be roasting, i would expect a few more Water companies banning hose pipes, shame for the pop up car washes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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On 06/07/2018 at 22:39, oldypigeonpopper said:

hello, just to note, a new RESERVOIR is in planning for an area within the Vale of South Oxfordshire, with 50ft high banks and estimated 100/150 million cubic meters said to be the size of Heathrow Airport, about 4/5 square mile,  it will be built between Steventon, East Hanney and Drayton, with good farm land and homes,  this will require a new road to replace the one between Hanney and Steventon, estimated to take 10 years to build, an interesting read is www.abingdonreservoir,org.uk, this as most know around here will supply London !!!!!, one interesting fact, it is estimate Thames Water loose 670 million litres a day through leaks, more than the size of 2 of these reservoirs so as you can imagine there is a lot of WHY, and fix the leaks , i dare say after all the planning and those against it will go ahead just like the 3rd runway at Heathrow, but hey not in my life time.  

What I can't understand is why when a Reservoir is dry like the one in Lancashire don't they dig down and make them deeper while they have the opportunity?

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1 minute ago, krugerandsmith said:

What I can't understand is why when a Reservoir is dry like the one in Lancashire don't they dig down and make them deeper while they have the opportunity?

hello, i very much agree with you, which one are you talking about as quite a few in Lancs, maybe the drought in 1976  should have given the water companies future plans on population growth or maybe the did not expect a 2 million extra on immigration or our own UK citizens, the new Reservoir i mentioned is looking at 2050 and beyond i have read,

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Today Sunday.......I see they are still soaking the courts at Wimbledon with many gallons of water! I wonder what other sports venues/sports stadia are doing the same?.............I assume water conservation only applies to residential consumers?

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Read or heard of a story a few years ago, it was going the rounds during a hose pipe ban.

Guy had a hose going up the side of his house to the bathroom, after each family member had taken their bath he would put the free end of the hose in the bath and siphon the water out for his garden.

One day  along comes jobsworth and shouts "oi what you doin, there's a ose pipe ban on". Guy explains to JW what he was doing.  Answer " Naw miite its a OSE PIPE ban innit" 

Never found out if the story was true (doubt it ) but it does show what some peoples views of the situation could be. i.e. things could get silly.

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2 hours ago, panoma1 said:

Today Sunday.......I see they are still soaking the courts at Wimbledon with many gallons of water! I wonder what other sports venues/sports stadia are doing the same?.............I assume water conservation only applies to residential consumers?

Don't know maybe does not apply to them if they are paying business rates, ie horticulture etc, 

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On 06/07/2018 at 23:49, 39TDS said:

People's attitude really does puzzle me. No rain for weeks on end, cloudless skies, windy and hot, no rain in the forecast...... Of course there's no water left!

But no, I demand a green lawn so balls to everyone else they can go thirsty. Just nuts.

I agree, it's selfish. If reservoirs are getting low, don't waste water. If you water your lawn you have to cut it quicker.

Kids are on holiday soon, we're almost guaranteed 6 weeks of wet weather.

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1 hour ago, oldypigeonpopper said:

hello, i am sure farmers pay their water bills on business rates if coming off 1 main pipe 

Farmers spend many £10,000s building reservoir's so they can abstract during the winter when water is plentiful and spray on crops in the summer.

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I drove to Nuneaton yesterday evening and up the Weddington Road at 5.30pm. water was gushing across the road from a burst main an inch deep and 15ft wide. At 10.30pm when I returned it was still doing the same. Not a water company worker to be seen.  Then they tell me I should not water my veg garden.  Pathetic doesn't cover it.

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20 hours ago, Sha Bu Le said:

Read or heard of a story a few years ago, it was going the rounds during a hose pipe ban.

Guy had a hose going up the side of his house to the bathroom, after each family member had taken their bath he would put the free end of the hose in the bath and siphon the water out for his garden.

One day  along comes jobsworth and shouts "oi what you doin, there's a ose pipe ban on". Guy explains to JW what he was doing.  Answer " Naw miite its a OSE PIPE ban innit" 

Never found out if the story was true (doubt it ) but it does show what some peoples views of the situation could be. i.e. things could get silly.

Actually that doesn't make any difference, a hosepipe ban is still a hosepipe ban. The water company owns all the water in its area, even the water in your car's radiator so they can say what they like and make any rule they like regarding the use of water. Silly? yes but legal. 

Farmers, car washes etc are on a business water rate and different rules apply. So basically I can't clean my own car but I can pay somebody else to.

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Just now, oldypigeonpopper said:

hello, there is a farm i know where the water supply comes from a spring, and yes they still have to pay

Yes ground sources like rivers, streams, bore holes and wells it makes no difference, all the water belongs to the water company, you never own it.

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  I'm not sure Manchester has an actual shortage of water, it is the fact that they have been using town water on the fires in Saddleworth that means that the processing plants cannot cope with the increased demand from there AND from people watering the garden.  The raw water supply is fine, it is cleaning and purifying, during unprecedented demand that is an issue.

  We have Kielder over here and that is going to take many dry years to empty.  It was built with shipbuilding and other industrial use in mind, and we all know what happened to that.

 

RS

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