do you use a lot of water?

Sorry everyone my mistake its 114 litres per day 🤭 what an idiot.

We have a meter but I don’t know how much we use. I do try to be reasonably economical (having said that I’ve had the sprinkler on the garden early this morning) and do get irritated with dh for e.g. letting the cold tap run full blast while he’s brushing his teeth. Minor in the great scheme of things I know, but the unnecessary waste does grieve me. (A bit.)

We try very hard to make the best use of our water. I use more in the Summer as I water the tomatoes and other plants in pots.

I use water from the water butts for plants in the garden when newly planted but they ran dry earlier in the year - now replenished thanks to the Wimbledon rain!

We put water tanks in during our last drought so we fill the pool up with that and water the garden,too. If you don’t water things here in Summer they die within a few hot days. Sad sight when you go on hols and come back to brown crinkly plants.

£33 a month here, down from £96 a month 2 years ago before the meter was fitted.
Ours includes umpteen machine washes and showers / baths due to having a dirty business.
Never watered the garden other than a few veggies during lockdown as it doesn’t need it.

Showers don’t always use less water than a bath btw.

We have a meter but I don't know how much we use. We pay £27 a month so I'm happy that we're not being wasteful.

No water meter here but I am careful of my water use. Showers not baths, avoid random washing up and load it all in the dishwasher, use the washing machine sparingly. We are in the NW so no shortage of rainwater for the garden. We asked for a water meter but can’t have one because this small group of very old ex farm cottages is on a shared supply. Very irritating when in the shower and a neighbour runs the cold tap.

Calendargirl

Should add the water company read the meters either yearly or half yearly, so they do get accurate readings also.

Same here and I rely on that as my meter is far too difficult to read.
As I’m in a hosepipe ban region I’ve been saving used water for the garden. It’s amazing just how much you waste when washing hands, washing or draining vegetables etc. so we’ve been keeping a bowl in the sink and then pouring the waste into empty milk bottles.

I was surprised how much drinking water we use and can only tell when on holiday, if we can’t drink the tap water
On holiday recently we bought gallons of bottled water, the containers were huge and difficult to both carry and get the water out of, (but better than buying lots of small plastic bottles for recycling.)

Our bill is £23 per month Southern Water, we have three water butts, I bath occasionally, otherwise both of us quickly shower, we do have a meter.

NotSpaghetti

^114 litres a month^, tanith is less than 4 litres a day.

I think Oldnproud is right - this must be a mistake as a low flush in a "dual-flush" loo still uses 3-4 litres.
I think most of us need to use the toilet at some point during the day!

We use at least 114 litres each a DAY here.

114 litres a month, tanith is less than 4 litres a day.

I think Oldnproud is right - this must be a mistake as a low flush in a "dual-flush" loo still uses 3-4 litres.
I think most of us need to use the toilet at some point during the day!

BlueBelle

Well I don’t see your reasoning Maddy when you say you shouldn’t pay by usage That s like saying a family of 10 out for a meal pay the same set price as a family of 2 or a shopping bill for 5 people should be the same as a shopping bill for 2 people ….makes no sense

I agree Bluebelle. We saved ££££s with a meter.
Houses without meters are rare around here.

I do have a meter, but as I am very careful, I'm not bothered.

We don’t have a water shortage in mid Wales, 95% of the water in our system is surface water, and I’m surrounded by reservoirs, there are 9 within 40 miles of where I live.
I have water butts but no water meter. It rains so much here in the winter that I don’t feel guilty about watering the garden, only the pots though, not the lawn. On one hand, I know we are lucky, on the other in the winter it can be raining every day for weeks which is miserable.

Very thrifty with water and only use what is essential. Use the rain water but in the garden for flowers which we do by hand.

Well I don’t see your reasoning Maddy when you say you shouldn’t pay by usage That s like saying a family of 10 out for a meal pay the same set price as a family of 2 or a shopping bill for 5 people should be the same as a shopping bill for 2 people ….makes no sense

I checked our usage from the bills - no need to read the meter.

tanith

I use 114 litres a month, my bill has gone down from £47 to £14 a month since I went on to a water meter. All the information is in my online account, I don’t need to read the meter Affinity take the reading automatically and generate a bill every 6 mths. I’m very happy my bill has reduced by £33 a month. I live alone in a 2 bed house. The meter is located on the pavement in front of the house.

I'm not sure how you manage to use so little, tanith. 114 litres a month is a tiny amount!

Always mindful of how precious it is. Recall going on holiday to somewhere and being distressed to see a hosepipe running with nobody in attendance, it went on for ages just running……

The water companies don’t seem to think that water is a precious resource because if they did they would fix the leaks that lose millions of gallons every year.

We used 26 gallons a day. Do you have a leak somewhere as 50 seems a lot for two of you.

As someone who lived off grid for 20 years and the spent a lot of time in in Spain in the motohome I havnt changed my habit of being very aware of how precious water is.

Just looked at ours we’ve used 150m3 This year we pay £53 a month Yorkshire water. It does seem a lot, but we suffer with achey backs so have a bath most days.

We use what we need. We don’t have a water meter.
Instead of pushing water meters the water companies should concern themselves with stopping the leaks and invest in new reservoirs. Our population is growing by more than half a million people a year with all the increased demand that creates and so clearly the water companies need to invest in their infrastructure instead expecting people to cut back on their use.
By definition pensioner households will use less water than families. I don’t agree with paying for water per use because that would penalise families.