Sunday, August 07, 2022

Fat cats and hosepipe bans

The water companies have had decades to prepare for the drought. In fact the money which could have created the infrastructure to cope with the demand has been siphoned off to shareholders in record profits. In all over 60 billion pounds have been paid to shareholders since 1991.

Hosepipe bans are a stupid knee-jerk response to the crisis which the water companies caused. They are blaming and punishing the victims. Consumers do not waste water on the same scale as water companies. Imagine our hosepipes wasting 3,000 million litres of water! Leakages peaked five years after the privatisation of the water companies.

If you are finding it difficult to water the garden, you probably have a fat cat sitting on the hosepipe!


 

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