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Old 22-10-2006, 03:41 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Nick Maclaren Nick Maclaren is offline
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Default UK drought - end in sight


In article ,
"shazzbat" writes:
| "JennyC" wrote in message
| ...
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| Maybe it's too cheap?
| .........households pay 1.2 pence per cubic meter (Telegraph June 2006)
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| http://www.ofwat.gov.uk/aptrix/ofwat...ndyoumarch2000
| says:
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| Watering a garden: Assuming a hosepipe for one hour uses approximately 540
| litres of water: 70p
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| Those figures do not work. A cu metre of water = 1000 litres.
| At 1.2p/cu m, 540 litres would cost 6.48p

Really? Try again.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.