What happens when the taps run dry? England is about to find out

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• Psaldorn@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  But I bet there was profit for the shareholders.

  Privatised water, what could go wrong?

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• IcePee@lemmy.beru.co ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I see an interesting parallel to the nationalisation of UK coal back in the day. Basically, the collieries prior to nationalisation were critically mismanaged. So, the government bought them off the private hands. However, the valuation was too high for an outright purchase, so the Government bought the infrastructure in installments. This meant that as an award to the previous owners for severe mismanagement they got regular income without having to do anything to get it.

  I think there’s a lesson in there, some where.

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  • northernscrub@lemmy.world ⁨43⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    honestly, if the end result is public ownership, I don’t particularly care how it is achieved. With the number of infrastructural issues and the catastrophic loss of potable water as a result, any means is appropriate. Money is constructable, life is finite.

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  • gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just not one we’d like to be learned

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  • Horse@lemmygrad.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    yeah, don’t buy them, just take them

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, let the EU run things instead of local fuckwits.

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• Codpiece@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think they mean “the REST of the country is about to find out”, because as a Thames water customer it’s already happened to me a several times.

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  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You pay money to drink from the thames??

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    • MonsterMonster@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We might as well.

      Thames Water serves the area surrounding the river Thames from Kent, through London, Thames Valley to Wiltshire in the West and areas North and South of this line.

      They produce 2.5Giga Litres (2,500,000,000) of drinking water per day.

      They are probably the worst of the privatised water companies with unresolved supply problems, illegal sewage discharges and incurring huge debt in paying shareholder dividends.

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  • shath@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    thames water don’t be the worst challenge

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  • MonsterMonster@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not in Scotland. This explains the situation with a privatised water company.

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• Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Weird how chronically underfunding a critical service causes issues

  (Sorry to hear about this comrades, I hope things get turned around)

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I guess I would start using the 300L of rainwater storage I have, it isn’t ideal and would need to be best to boil before drinking but should be fine otherwise. Wash from a bucket of warm water with a flannel or sponge.

  Now is pretty much the best time of year to have your water supply fucked as so much of it falls from the sky. In summer I would probably have to start looking at taking bottles to a river.

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• fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh great, now I have to start hoarding water, too.

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