There have been a few articles, in today’s press, about the easy-to-predict forthcoming drought that is going to hit the UK.
What utter cocks the water industry are.
Why would you put out pieces, for newspapers to print, solely designed to scare the British public to falsely economise our water use?
Why would you do that?
Why would you not plug the gaps in the water network, instead?
Oh, because that would involve spending your shareholders cash?
Tough.
So here’s the message:
Dear Water Industry,
Stop getting the newspapers to print such utter bogus stories as these, and instead get up off your sorry skanky backsides, and put a proper, robust, water-carrying system in place. You know, one that doesn’t leak tens of thousands of gallons *a day*. That would be good. Wouldn’t it? If you did that?
Of course, I realise that to do this thing would mean you would have to spend real money, and that the work would probably take about 8 years.
But come on, think of the future! Think how much water you would be saving? Think that, with all that new water-carrying infrastructure in place, there would be almost no water wastage. Think that, with almost no water wastage, you could cut the price of our water bills. By up to 50%.
That would be really excellent too. For your customers. Maybe not so excellent for your shareholders. But still. Can’t have everything, eh?
And also, while you’re about it, why don’t you cooperate with each other and build a Water National Grid? So that, you know, the rainy north and even rainier Wales could send some of their natural goodies to other parts of the country? That would be good too.
Wouldn’t it?
I currently work in the water industry, for a company that the utilities companies pay to fix stuff that breaks. This morning we recived a bulletin advising us to prepare to tender for parcels of work on their latest wheeze – a pipeline running from the wet North to somewhere in the South East, right the way down, to allow us to let you have some of our excess water. That said, it won’t be ready for bloody donkeys years because tendering, preparing contracts and allocating work takes an eternity when it’s one water company involved, with umpteen of the buggers it’s going to be a total nightmare but still, it looks like it will happen.