I bacini d’Inghilterra ai livelli più bassi per un decennio mentre gli esperti chiedono divieti di hosepipe

Boy, some of that £85 billion the companies have paid out to shareholders sure would have been nice, right about now. Imagine having public facilities not burdened with £60 billion in debt, that actually had the funds to invest in climate change related projects…

Ah the type of experts that would rather blame domestic users and normal people than water companies who drag their feet fixing leaks which results in the loss of 20% of all treated water in the UK. And they wonder why nobody likes experts anymore.

Good thing we don’t lose 2.5 billion litres of water a day through leaks then! Oh wait…

If I see someone using a hosepipe, I won’t report them… Not that I ever did anyway.

With all the money these companies are losing though leaks? And the insane profits they have reeled in and they still have not invested enough in the infrastructure?

It doesn’t seem fair does it? I won’t be fair to them in return. Fix your leaks before you start telling us to reduce our water usage.

Friendly reminder that nobody has ever been fined for a hosepipe infraction. If these criminal water corporations want to start trying to take people to court then… We will see. Personally I doubt they will bother.

Instead of fixing the leaks which are pissing billions of litres of water away, water firms have chosen to pay out dividends to shareholders and bonuses to executives. And now that they’re running out of water, they want to make it our problem. Taking the absolute piss.

They can fuck right off.

We’ve just had 2 of the wettest years, back to back, since records began.

We also have a temperate climate. Water isn’t in short supply, here.

But they’ve used money they should have spent on improving existing infrastructure to prevent leaks (millions of litres per day), and building new infrastructure, on bonuses and dividends.

Oh, and water bills continue to rise for the rest of us plebs.

Again, they can fuck right off. I’ll be using my hose pipe as I like, cheers.

Edit – I forgot to also mention all the pollution and effluent dumps. Just to add to the above. Shithouses.

I got in touch with our water company because the company north of our region has imposed a hose pipe ban. Got this response:

>we don’t have a hosepipe ban at the moment. We haven’t had any in many years, we do try not to do this. …

>We’re working round the clock to manage the impact of what has been the driest Spring in the East of England for over 100 years. Protecting the environment and the vital agricultural sector in the region in the face of such unusually dry conditions means doing everything we can to leave as much water in the environment as possible. Customers have been doing their bit, and whilst our reservoir levels are relatively close to normal, river levels across the region are very low.

I’ve recently moved to where I am now and am totally used to hosepipe bans. It was interesting to read ‘We haven’t had any in many years. We do try not to do this.’