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UK drought - end in sight
In article , Charlie Pridham
wrote: "JennyC" wrote in message ... "Stan The Man" wrote The Isle of Wight provides an interesting test area. When they first introduced compulsory meeting, water consumption per household dropped by around 10% on average - but this figure has gone down every year since so that today, average consumption is only approx 1% less than it was before metering was imposed. That could mean that we have more money and are prepared to spend it on water; or it could mean that the metered water bills were not as scary as folk had feared; or it could mean that everyone is now accustomed to using less water. 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 Jenny I have had a meter for years but do not need to use it thank goodness, your 1.2p is a typo, the rate in SW area is £1.247 per M3 and that is just the water charge it costs much more if you are on mains drainage for them to take it away again( I am not, so I am not sure what it is currently, but it was twice the cost of the water), so not only are you going to pay a lot more than 70p for an hours watering you will be paying for them to treat water that they do not get back. As to hose pipe bans, we have not had one since the meter was fitted but I have a letter on file somewhere from SWW stating that any ban would not apply to metered properties, don't know whether that is still the case , but would have to agree some clarity would be good as you only have to read the numerous threads on here all offering different interpretations :~) The 8 water companies in the SE who have imposed hosepipe bans have not made any exceptions for metered properties - primarily because it would make policing the ban virtually impossible, and snooping pointless. |
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