The UK drought is serious. No water should be wasted.
london-boy said:Today is the first non-rainy day in almost 2 weeks! (notice how i said non-rainy and not "sunny"...)
Bouncing Zabaglione Bros. said:We've already got a countrywide network of canals, it wouldn't be asking the moon to ship water down to the south from the north where they have no problems. God knows the south-east shares enough of it's wealth to help the rest of the country, it would only be fair for them to send us some of their spare water. The water companies won't do it because they'd rather put in less effort and charge customers more whilst supplying less.
Blitzkrieg said:Couldnt they just pass a law stating a minimum amount of leaking say 5-10%?
Neeyik said:I used to work for NWW, specifically leakage control, back in the "good old days". It was no different then as it is now; leakage was given far too small a budget as it would eat into the profit margins quite considerably. Money aside though, it all reeked of incompetence. I would regularly report faulty pressure sensors, flow meters, dodgy valves, etc but they would never get fixed - just pushed from department to department. In the end all my job came down to was pointing out the obvious: old stuff leaks.
The problem is that the water companies are private monopolies in their individual areas. If they provide a crap service, who else are you going to buy your water from? There's no incentive for them to do better, beyond the fines, and the fines clearly aren't heavy enough.JHoxley said:This is far from the first time I've heard people saying that the privatised industries aren't investing enough in their network/infrastructure due to it hurting the profit margin.
Yeah, unfortunately that doesn't work very well either. The private sector only care about the bottom line, the public sector doesn't care about the bottom line at all, and things end up costing five times what they need to.DiGuru said:Be smart, and let your government handle those things.