Well the hose pipe ban has finally arrived! Even though there seems to be some strange rules around them. For example, you can’t water your garden or wash your car with a hose pipe, but you can top up your hot-tub and your swimming pool!
What about Car Washes? It seems that they have escaped the ban (so far), seems to me that this is one very strange way of saving water. Surely what does it matter if the car is dirty, but your saving water for real needs such as supplying hospitals and other real users of water.
But the leaks still keep appearing! Over ONE THIRD of all water collected by the water companies disappears through leakage! It seems strange to me that this country is still replacing water pipes that were put laid by the Victorians.
It doesn’t stop there… For a number of years we have known that more water is being used than in the past, so why have more water reservoirs not been built? It seems that many of the smaller ones have been sold off, filled in and sold for house building!!
This goes back to one of my main gripes, in that water and anything to do with is should be a ‘public asset’ not managed for ‘profit’ and sold off to the highest bidder. More on this later.
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