scud8

iTrader: (1)

A quick poll to see whether metering will be effective in changing people's behaviour. Be honest!

richiewong

No not metered and also live in the North East where we have loads of water and bloody rain

mad_dr

Given that we also PAY for the water company to take the water away, I feel that leaving the tap on is absolutely the right thing to do.

Approximately 40% of our bill constitutes the removal of waste water (unless you drink every drop and only **** at work, most of what you use - regardless of how much or little that may be - will end up back in the water system) so I feel I would be contributing to causing a potential fall in profits for the water company and - potentially - job losses as a result of not leaving the tap running. My conscience couldn't bear that kind of weight, ergo I leave all my taps running 24 hours a day.

Alas

With the amount of rain we get up here we'd be flooded if we did'nt waste water

little'un

iTrader: (9)

it is a waste of water letting a tap run, my other half lets it run when he once in a blue moon does the washing up
I have to reach round him and turn it off

There was a huge pipe put in the ground that is apparently pumping water from down here (bucks/berks) up north somewhere, don't know if that's true

SiPie

naive clown

mart360

but then again i can do it in a glass!!!!


Mart

mad_dr

Exactly!!! What the hell happened to the water pipeline they were going to put in to bring water down from Scotland to England to try to alleviate the water shortage problem?! Aren't these the kind of issues a government is supposed to provide solutions to?! I guess that got canned so they could focus on all the other excellent issues they deal with...

They're happy enough to bring gas in from Eastern Siberia through an unprotected pipeline FFS.

AND we have to bring in most of our power from overseas now. They built all these coal-fired powerstations and now we've got no coal. The gas is nearly gone too and we're left buying power from the Germans and the French who would never dream of buying their power from anyone else.

mad_dr

Morning SiPie - nice to see you still haven't grasped the concept of satire yet. Keep going mate - you'll get there one day

imlach

I blame all those fat cat financial companies giving out 20% bonuses....

SJ_Skyline

Don't leave the tap running and metered.

fast bloke

That is cos their nuclear power stations provide more than enough power for them at a stable cost

SiPie

Too early in the morning mate

PMSL.... very good Imlach

Dream Weaver

You need another option - dont use the water to start.

I just brush my teeth with toothpaste and my Sonix power brush so generally dont need water at the start, just a tiny amount at the end to rinse

We have horrendous water pressure so generally dont use much, hosepipes dont work, etc etc And we have a 100m back garden as well, so its a mare in summer

David Lock

The materials, construction costs and pumping energy requirements make this a very last resort. I am sure there is much more to be done on the savings front before we get to that stage. For example we don't really need 100% clean water to water the bloody grass when bath water would do!!

Put meters on a sliding scale so that households clearly wasting water pay through the nose once they go over the threshold.

In my patch Southern Water seem to have made no effort to increase storage when they could have got some big dozers in and deepened their surface reservoirs quite easily. We'll probably have floods again next year and it will mostly run to waste! Just my 2 gallon's worth

sallyb555

I always turn the tap off, but we are on a water meter.

suprabeast

does everyone here believe that water going down the sink is somehow evaporated and disappears forever??

The only real wasted water is watering the garden.

Straight down the sink just goes back to the sewage plant where it is cleaned and re used....

suprabeast

Thames water also wanted to build a plant to use sea water to stop any issues like this in the future.. but Red Ken put the block on it. Another labour screw up... nice one

OllyK

Even the water in the garden get's recycled. What the plants don't use just returns to the water table, without the need for costly cleansing first. Of what the plant does use, a lot evapourates out of its leaves and back in to the atmosphere. Add to that, the watering we do in the garden is mostly the veg patch and greenhouses and the bit of extra water we use is paid back in less vehicle journeys to the supermarket etc to buy food. Damn-it, I demand a water rebate!!

ewanrw

Scotland already ships water down by lorry when you guys are running low. A nice little earner for Scottish Water if you ask me.

Don't think they'll ever put a pipeline in. IMO transporting water by lorry will give Scottish Water more control over who gets how much and at what cost.

Tis a monopoly.

ewan

scud8

iTrader: (1)

Interesting results so far.

- Approx 65% are not metered (lower than national average, which is 72%).
- Approx 43% of those not metered turn the tap off, compared to 57% of those who are metered.

This implies that, if everyone was metered tomorrow and these changes in habits were repeated nationally, between 5 and 6 million people would start turning off the tap. Assuming they all clean their teeth once per day for the recommended 2 minutes, this would save about 50 million litres of water a day. If the other 43% started turning off the taps, that would save another 250 million litres a day.

Not much compared to the 3.6 billion litres a day lost to leaks - but a start!

OllyK

Indeed, a bit like putting a sticking plaster on a scratch on a soldiers head while ignoring the sucking chest wound pissing blood all over the place.

stilover

Whats all this about a water shortage ?????? Drought ??? What does that mean

We have bloody loads of it up here (North East). I don't think we've ever had a hosepipe or anything like that. Or at least ever since they built Kielder Damn

If I remember right, last year or the year before, they were tankering water from Kielder down to the South. Not sure if they still do it, but they used to pump it out of Windermere and Ulswater too.

BuRR

I thought water just diluted the toothpaste even more than your saliva does. Should only use water at the end to clean the brush.

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

Who are going to scrap ALL their nuclear power stations in the next 8 years! so how are they proposing to generate all the power to feed Germany let alone you lot aswell!!!

Brendan Hughes

Dunno about your first point, but I use water at the end (only) to wash all the foamy crap from my mouth