Should individuals be expected to save water when leaky pipes waste so much of it?

Question

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Answer 1

Yes.

Everybody do what you can.

Aloha

Answer 2

Yes. but to impose a hose pipe ban for the vegetables in my garden whilst at the allotment they can put the sprinklers on their dahlias is wrong too.
And the fact that you can afford to have a waterhole drilled in your private grounds should be no excuse for being able to use water unlimited either.
Years ago i worked on a very high level government gardening contract. It involved many lawns of which some happened to be very high public profile. The hosepipe ban meant the grass would just have to go brown. And it did to a certain point and then we got an exemption and could use hosepipes on this particular lawn. (had to think of the image, it was a very public lawn) Another lawn that as part of this contract was sort of allocated to a person in a certain position shall we say. This person also had their own little patio area overlooking the river. The lawn itself was allowed to be used by people that work within this person office. I was expected to water it but not being able to use hosepipes and the lawn being something like half the size of a football pitch i opted for the fire hydrant. Got told off by the fire brigade when they found out though.:-)
Beyond that the fire department didn't care where i got the water from as long as it wasn't coming out of their equipment. i think in the end we got an exemption for that lawn too. Despite that lawn not even being visible to the public!!!

It's double standards. It's us and them. That needs adressing too you know?

Answer 3

Yes becuase it's a natural resource but clearly we arebeing ripped off by greedy water companies. Investors have paid too much for water companies seeing them as guaranteed income on a monopoly business and have therefore put too much debt in the companies to ensure a decent return on equity. That means there's not enough left over for the capital expenditure required to renew pipes. Hence rising water bills and leaking pipes. Stricter regulation is required by a weak Offwat.

Answer 4

The two things don't equate. You are responsible for wasting water in your home/work environment. The water board is responsible for leaky pipes.

My Garandmother used to say " Waste not. Want not!" In between wanting to throttle her , I have to admit she was right.

Answer 5

I’m not certain about the point here. Should we husband natural resources? Well of course we should. Should we fail to husband natural resources because someone else isn’t? Well of course not.

Should we develop legislation where people, organisations, countries have their attention focused on their failure/lack of action with regard to preserving resources by a system of increasingly punitive responses from the rest of us? Hell yes.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Of course! We should all try to conserve our natural resources. And fix that *&*#* leaky pipe>

Answer 8

Yes we should all take responsibility for saving water.
Just because someone else does not care does not excuse our carelessness.

Answer 9

Weel, every little helps. Yes, the water companies could /should do more, but we can too.

Answer 10

well ,if the water got meter,then you still have to save other wise you'll be charge big if you abuse coz of the leak

Answer 11

As they say "every little helps".