Save Water, Save Money, Save The Planet

subjecttocontract

If water was that precious it would cost far more than it does. It's ridiculously cheap.....in total I pay around £6 a cu metres ( 220 gallons).....that's 2.7p a gallon or around 0.5p a litre. The UK has plenty of water, problem is, it's all in the wrong place e.g. Scotland.

weenancyinAmerica

Love the tips. We have drought conditions here quite often - since we were originally almost a desert, I'm not surprised. We keep a jug of water in the refrigerator for drinking, so people don't run the water just to get a drink. My sister whose boyfriend is from Mexico uses an ola, and I have one too. It is a pottery urn that really keeps the water cool. During the summer I like to have containers of iced tea and lemonade in refrigerator too. My problem is that my roommates go through a lot of water bottles here (which we do recycle). I do insist that if there is water left in a bottle and we don't know who it belongs to, that it be emptied into the planter bed on the herbs and pelargoniums (I am trying to spread more of the red ones around). We try to plant things that don't need too much water - like lavender also to save on water.

Green_hopeful

Water is a precious resource. Ofwat controls how much companies can charge and what they can invest in their businesses. Ofwat wants cheap water and sewage charges. Ofwat want the businesses to do things as cheaply as possible. The charges are not reflective of the value of water and our environment. We are super careful with water because we live in a very dry part of the UK. We often have no rain at all for a month at a time. We reuse as much as possible. We have diverted our utility sink to a butt outside so we can easily save clean water for reuse. For example from draining vegetables. 

annieb64

Our bathroom is on the second floor so it takes a while for the water to run hot. I can fill a small bucket with water before it does. I then pour the water into a  carrier and take it downstairs.

Our water bill has gone up but it doesn't seem to be as bad as some people's. 

An6 hints or tips on saving water are very welcome. We also live in a very dry part of the UK.

subjecttocontract

My Gas/Electric, Council Tax, House Insurance, Car Insurance and Phone/Broadband ALL individually cost more than my water bill. Why are people so obsessed with saving water ?

florianatwobob

Natural resources are all precious. If your water is metered or if water is scarce and/or drought orders are issued then any hints and tips to reduce consumption are valuable. 

Equally it’s not always about the cost in monetary terms but also the environmental cost of over using / depleting resources that people want to consider. 

subjecttocontract

I think you're making an issue out of water shortages when there aren't any.

CapricornLass

I do hope you are right, subjecttocontract.  But a lady from Yorkshire was saying on one of the gardening threads that their drought order risk has been raised to medium, and here in Wiltshire, we have only had 18% of the rain we should have had this year.  And we are not yet in June.

Working_Mum

subjecttocontract said:

My Gas/Electric, Council Tax, House Insurance, Car Insurance and Phone/Broadband ALL individually cost more than my water bill. Why are people so obsessed with saving water ?

I wonder why people bother to post on a thread they clearly have no interest in - they seem to want to provoke an argument. 

Saving water is really important for many reasons to lots of people - just because it doesn't jive with you stc you don't need to be so dismissive of people who wish to do something constructive about this issue

joedenise

Well said @Working_Mum.  STC sound extremely selfish.