Why are billed amounts for clean and waste water the same?

brocq_18

Volume used is 19m3, so why is 19.00 charged for both clean and waste? Shouldn't it be a combination of two values totalling 19m3?

deanos

that is correct, its all based on clean water going through your meter , there is no meter on your sewage  

brocq_18

So this assumes all clean water I use eventually goes down the drain....

My thinking is that I can fill a bucket with xm3 of clean water, and water the plants with it. That volume never goes down the drain, yet I'm being billed for it?

glennevis

You've got a point.

Yorkshire Water charge for waste water at 95% of the metered volume.

Talldave

In the last couple of years I've been with Southern Water and South East Water and both charged at 92.5% for waste water.

Martin_the_Unjust

Just an aside but in two months you have used almost 2 tonnes of water!

roddydogs

Always been so, so if you hose the garden it doesn't go down the drain.

tim_p

Martin_the_Unjust said:

Just an aside but in two months you have used almost 2 tonnes of water!

Assuming two people, isn’t that roughly on target for the national average? (55 m3 / year)

Cardew

Apparently the 5% or 7.5% reduction in charges to allow for evaporation, garden watering etc is done by reducing the per cubic metre sewerage charge.

E.G. take a customer being supplied with, say, 100 cubic metres(m3) of water from the mains, and the water company allowing 5% for evaporation etc. The full charge for sewerage is £2 per m3.

They can either.

1. Charge £2 on 95m3 = £190 -

or

2. Charge £1.90 on 100m3 = £190

In the early days of metering method 1 was used on bills, but for years now method 2 has been used by my water company.

So the OP's charge of £0.8672 per m3 is after it has been reduced by 5% or 7.5% (or whatever figure Thames Water use.

Talldave

Martin_the_Unjust said:

Just an aside but in two months you have used almost 2 tonnes of water!

Or 19 tonnes, to be precise! 

Martin_the_Unjust

Talldave said:

Martin_the_Unjust said:

Just an aside but in two months you have used almost 2 tonnes of water!

Or 19 tonnes, to be precise! 

Ah yes, that's what I meant. 

Fat fingers, small keyboard.