Le aziende idriche in Inghilterra e Galles perdono cinque volte tanto quanto farebbe risparmiare il divieto dei tubi flessibili
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/18/water-firms-in-england-and-wales-leak-five-times-what-hosepipe-ban-would-save
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Don’t forget the fact they haven’t built water infrastructure, whilst simultaneously increasing the population by millions as a deliberate act of policy.
So I’ll give a preemptive “climate change and Russian hybrid war etc” my arse!
Got to find the money for shareholders dividends and directors bonuses. Hardly surprising that unimportant things like leaks take a back seat.
‘Water UK, the industry’s trade association, said: “Water companies have cut leakage by around 40% since privatisation and plan to reduce it by a further 17% by 2030.’ Making improvements and advancements isn’t necessarily to do with privatisation. I think “handouts” due to rampant capitalism should be looked at a lot more and talked about a lot more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/01/england-privatised-water-firms-dividends-shareholders
As I’ve said numerous times already, I think the best fix for “Broken Britain” is a focus on socialist-ish STEM. We need more actual solutions, and less greedy fuckery.
I live in a Thames Water area, I see so many leaking mains stopcocks in my area and it takes them months to do anything about it.
The water companies will continue to cause problems and expense until dealt with.
It’s too expensive can’t be an excuse when the current setup is too expensive.
Hasn’t changed in 20 years. Take them all into public ownership.
And they can’t fix them without denying all the poor starving bigwigs their six figure bonuses.
Fine these leeches out of existence and put all the water companys into public ownership. the experiment failed. and next the trains and the post office. they are public services they are not supposed to be profit machines. who actually gives a crap about their share holders. most are saudi owned anyway
To be fair, imagine almost every road in the country has a water pipe under it, and any one of them can be leaking at any point along its length. You can work out roughly which stretch of pipe is leaking from the difference in meters on either side, but now are you going to dig up 300m of road to find it?
I have a huge bill and a water meter. I’ll use what I want thanks.
The leaking water maybe the only thing thats keeping watercourses moist!
They can afford to pay massive salaries and bonuses but can’t fix leaks. No massive salaries or bonuses until all leaks sorted.
Don’t forget the low flow flush systems, that initially save water but often leak.
Marvelous , allow months of rain to piss out of the system due to poor maintenance, then as soon as there is a bit of sun drop the pressure in people’s homes and ban us from using hoses , all the while cranking up the cost of water bills whilst making bumper profits and paying bosses a mint .
Well ain’t that a dandy fucking thing
Water leakage over time
https://www.ofwat.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Average-annual-leakage-scaled.png
>Progress has been made. Water companies have cut leakage by 43% since 1989, when the sector was privatised, but there’s still more to do to make sure this vital resource is not wasted.
https://www.ofwat.gov.uk/households/supply-and-standards/leakage/#leakage5