Hose Pipe Bans In London

[SmallTown]

Yeah hosepipe ban started yesterday for me, today it is chucking it down. Probably be flooding in my local area by this afternoon like a couple of weeks back when we had heavy rain.

Yeah I was cycling through deep puddles this morning thinking "well thank god for the hosepipe ban"

 

[SmallTown]

Absolutely BIDevon. We don’t need to use expensive treated water to wash cars, it’s nuts. Rainwater in a bucket from a water butt will do the job, with a bit of detergent if needed

This is one of the important things as we move towards a more sustainable future. It's the little wins that, if we all do them, will make a big difference. If it's possible save rainwater for use on lawns and cleaning outside stuff. I'm a bag fan of tiny iterative changes to increase sustainability as well as the big "solar farm" "heat pumps" changes

 

[Druss_The_Legend]

Yeah I was cycling through deep puddles this morning thinking "well thank god for the hosepipe ban"

Essex fire crews receive 70 flood calls in three hours

Essex Fire Service says areas affected by heavy rain include Buckhurst Hill and Halstead.

www.bbc.co.uk

Quite a bit of this flooding was within a couple of miles of where I live.

 

[Millbrook]

Fine, as an outsider, please:
1) advise what is an acceptable rate of loss. I’d expect somewhere around 10%?
2) explain how the infrastructure would not have been improved by investing shareholder dividends?
Ok, maybe just point (1) as (2) is a political statement.
Thx.

Check this out;

PN 28/22 Ofwat reveals progress on water industry leakage performance - Ofwat

Ofwat is today releasing new figures that shed light on the water industry’s performance on reducing leakage. The provisional figures show that three quarters of the companies are meeting their leakage targets and some have […]

www.ofwat.gov.uk

Shows the OFWAT target of 16% up to 2025 and levels of reduction so far by company.

 

[The Ruthsayer]

Check this out;

PN 28/22 Ofwat reveals progress on water industry leakage performance - Ofwat

Ofwat is today releasing new figures that shed light on the water industry’s performance on reducing leakage. The provisional figures show that three quarters of the companies are meeting their leakage targets and some have […]

www.ofwat.gov.uk

Shows the OFWAT target of 16% up to 2025 and levels of reduction so far by company.

Thanks Millbrook. Unless I’ve missed it, it doesn’t show percentage currently lost by each water company, only the performance against the gross figure target?

 

[The_Tiler]

Yeah hosepipe ban started yesterday for me, today it is chucking it down. Probably be flooding in my local area by this afternoon like a couple of weeks back when we had heavy rain.

But that was the wrong type of rain

 

[SmallTown]

Essex fire crews receive 70 flood calls in three hours

Essex Fire Service says areas affected by heavy rain include Buckhurst Hill and Halstead.

www.bbc.co.uk

Quite a bit of this flooding was within a couple of miles of where I live.

Hope all is OK with your place?

 

[Millbrook]

Thanks Millbrook. Unless I’ve missed it, it doesn’t show percentage currently lost by each water company, only the performance against the gross figure target?

That's right. Current leakage is 7% lower than when records began in the 1990s. That's 216 million litres per day which is significant but from a high beginning perhaps. However there are enough pipes to circle the world eight and a half times which gives an idea of the scale of the problem.

This is an interesting link;

Water companies record lowest leakage levels from pipes | Water UK

Drinking water quality remains very high, with 99.96% compliance Leakage down 7% down, to the lowest ever reported level Supply interruptions and water…

www.water.org.uk

 

[Lottowyn]

I bet they daren’t ban pipes in Scotland.