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Old 22-10-2006, 03:42 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default UK drought - end in sight

Nick Maclaren wrote:
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)

http://www.ofwat.gov.uk/aptrix/ofwat...ndyoumarch2000
says:

Watering a garden: Assuming a hosepipe for one hour uses
approximately 540 litres of water: 70p

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.

This is great. It's getting cheaper all the time!