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Old 22-10-2006, 08:07 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default UK drought - end in sight


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"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
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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.


Lol, I made a typo with the decimal point. But my point stands. No moving
the . will make the original example correct.

Steve


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| Lol, I made a typo with the decimal point. But my point stands. No moving
| the . will make the original example correct.

True.


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