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Water bills will have to rise to stop people having baths
Graham_Devon
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Say Lords.
This is due to the water shortages, and long term outlooks.
Instead of using large profits to keep up with demand, we should be priced out of taking baths. Of course, that way, the water companies will profit even more.
Meanwhile, the government, not the water companies, have been accused of doing too little to build new resevoirs or crate a grid. Meanwhile, it's the fault of ministers, not water companies, that they allow the companies to waste 25% of water through leaks.
The consumer council for water, who I've never heard of either, has the audacity to suggest investors and shareholders put their hands in their pockets.
What do you think? Should it be up to us, the public to shell out more for our water? The taxpayer to build resevoirs....or the water companies to erm, supply water.
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-2138789/Lords-say-water-prices-rise-pay-meters-homes.html
This is due to the water shortages, and long term outlooks.
Instead of using large profits to keep up with demand, we should be priced out of taking baths. Of course, that way, the water companies will profit even more.
Meanwhile, the government, not the water companies, have been accused of doing too little to build new resevoirs or crate a grid. Meanwhile, it's the fault of ministers, not water companies, that they allow the companies to waste 25% of water through leaks.
The consumer council for water, who I've never heard of either, has the audacity to suggest investors and shareholders put their hands in their pockets.
What do you think? Should it be up to us, the public to shell out more for our water? The taxpayer to build resevoirs....or the water companies to erm, supply water.
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-2138789/Lords-say-water-prices-rise-pay-meters-homes.html
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Read an article last year....within so many years we'll all be on a meter...the target is to cut our usage by 10%...
Think it said it will cost each user an extra £200..one off...to set up this plan...wether this is enough who knows....
Wonder if there was any long term plan when they were all privatised....I've no idea.... but its a good 20 years down the road now..0 -
Get rid of combi boilers...Feudal Britain needs land reform. 70% of the land is "owned" by 1 % of the population and at least 50% is unregistered (inherited by landed gentry). Thats why your slave box costs so much..0
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Graham_Devon wrote: »Meanwhile, the government, not the water companies, have been accused of doing too little to build new resevoirs or crate a grid.
And rightly so.
Abingdon £1bn reservoir plan rejected by government
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-12651131The bid went to a public inquiry but the secretary of state (Caroline Spelman, Conservative) said there was "no immediate need" for such a site.0 -
I think we pay enough for water/sewage and chargers over recent years have gone into improving sewage so treated so as to meet new stringent EU regulations. Okay that's a good thing but to say we should pay more when many of us are loosing our jobs, face lower living standards the worse for decades. I do think that many of them who make decisions haven't got a clue what its like to live from one pay day to another0
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Out of touch ministers and out of touch Lords now.
Everyone should be metered (wherever possible) not just charged more.
Again a SE problem, pain to be "shared" nationally.
Next we will be all charged more to subsidse cistern replacements.
Heard some commentaries today on Water Companies selling off resevoirs to "other" private companies to bolster their profits in the short term. Sounds like Southern Cross all over again.
Utilities shouldn't be in private hands, they have no long term commitment or planning. Regulators are toothless. Same problems are manifesting themselves in power supply.
Only this year (regulators) they agreed above RPI increase for necessary improvements, makes you wonder what the companies are doing with their profits;)"If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
Graham_Devon wrote: »Instead of using large profits to keep up with demand, we should be priced out of taking baths. Of course, that way, the water companies will profit even more.
Yet you seem to think this is a good idea when applied to mortgages and banks....
Do make up your mind Graham.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
Years ago we had a bath on bath night, once a week. And washing was done once a week, you washed things that were dirty, not because you'd worn them once, for 2 hours.0
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Meanwhile, here is a gown-up, intelligent response to the phoney 'water crisis'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/02/water_vs_energy_analysis/0 -
Graham_Devon wrote: »Instead of using large profits to keep up with demand, we should be priced out of taking baths. Of course, that way, the water companies will profit even more.
Google Barcelona and see how they are coping with a drought. People have changed their habits.
Only in the UK is there a continual chorus of complaints when we all don't get what we believe we are entitled to.0 -
Thrugelmir wrote: »Google Barcelona and see how they are coping with a drought. People have changed their habits.
Only in the UK is there a continual chorus of complaints when we all don't get what we believe we are entitled to.
'Entitled to'? Don't you mean. 'paid for'?
Contrary to what hippies wish to be the case, there is no water shortage in the UK. There has, however, a been an entirely predictable variation in rainfall in the South East of England during a time when its population has grown by around 15 per cent and nothing has been done to expand supply.
The same would be true of an unexpanded electricity supply. And what would be the cause of that - a shortage of electrons?0
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