Thames Water and saving measures

Cardew

Thames Water have just announced a 31% increase in profit to £346.5 million despite having leakages of 894,000,000 litres per day.

Hosepipe Ban for 2 million household is proposed.

The average person uses 165 litres per day in UK. This means that in the Thames region alone enough water for 5,418,000 people is wasted.

Puts some of the rather eccentric ideas for saving water into perspective!

gromituk

Cardew wrote:

Puts some of the rather eccentric ideas for saving water into perspective!

Of course it doesn't! :mad: That's the text-book head-in-the-sand approach that so many people have: always find a worse offender, and use that as an excuse to do nothing yourself.

I was a bit shocked to hear the full facts about Thames last night though. I had always railed a bit against the knee-jerk reaction to the leak figures: it costs an absolute fortune and a hell of a lot of disruption to fix thousands of leaks in thousands of miles of pipe, i.e. it's not nearly as easy as lazy newspaper commentators would have you believe.

However, being faced with the increase in profits and hearing that Thames Water has failed to meat its OFWAT targets for leak reduction again leaves me with very little sympathy for the company at all.

fender

I agree, it's quite evident Thames Water is run by a rabble of incompetent robber-barons who have contempt for the consumer. It's time the ombudsman took punitive action. This lot are more corrupt that Enron.

Cardew

gromituk wrote:

Of course it doesn't! :mad: That's the text-book head-in-the-sand approach that so many people have: always find a worse offender, and use that as an excuse to do nothing yourself.

That is a text book stupid reply.

Firstly if you care to read it again, I said it puts other savings into perspective - are you saying it doesn't put them into perspective?

Secondly, where did I say anything about an excuse to do nothing?

May I suggest you engage brain before operating keyboard.

tim_n

actually, the reason it costs so much is mainly because you have to first find the leaks, get permission and then digg up said road/house etc.

If the profiteering companies got round to replacing the aged victorian pipeline (some of which is 120?yrs old) completely rather than just patching things would be an awful lot better an awful lot quicker. And employing some more people!

gromituk

Cardew wrote:

Firstly if you care to read it again, I said it puts other savings into perspective - are you saying it doesn't put them into perspective?

No, I'm saying you're implying it dwarfs them - perhaps you should read my posting again?

May I suggest you engage brain before operating keyboard.

See above.

lynzpower

the bottom line has always been that water companies waste loads, we get charged more and get told to save even more water.

Now I have no objection to turning the tap off when I brush my teeth, put short cycles on the washing machine, leaving my garden bone dry and only having quick showers, as long as they stick to their side of the bargian.

It does pi$$ me right off when they get mass bonuses on my money, when they have failed in the basic task. OFWAT have slammed them ( well as much as ofwat ever slam I guess) but the bod on telly last night said, we have to negotiate hard before taking regulatory action. I would love to know why reg action hasnt been taken in 3 long years of failing thier targets so spectaculrly.

You cant blame a company for making money ( well,you can I guess) but its the government who we al so pay to keep rogue providers in check , they are not doing so.

PLease dont argue gang, we are all on the same side here

gromituk

THREE years of failing to meet the target? I was trying to find out whether it was even worse than two.

bluenose1

I' m sure this year Thames have also increased customer's bills by 28%.
There should be a massive penalty so that it is in their financial interest to reduce water wastage caused by leaks. ie no increase in charges until they meet required standards. They'd soon get their priorities right.
As it stands they get a slap on the wrist but continue with their ever growing massive profits.
Makes me so annoyed.:mad:
Regards
Anne