Saving water, should we be more pro-active?

The people who are not interested will ignore the media coverage anyway.

I have 3 neighbours who have all built small pools in their gardens over the last 5 years or so. I don't know how often they refill them but I often hear the water running for nearly an hour in one or other garden. As far as they are concerned they pay for the water so they can use it.

Definitely! We should have more media coverage linking some of our current issues with the climate emergency but I don't think this will happen until we start to run out of food or water

I try to limit shower time and don’t flush every toilet visit and am careful about running taps but now I have veg and pots to water daily it’s much harder. I used to have a water butt but there really isn’t a place for one in this house.

Not too far into the future water is going to be a serious issue for the whole world.
As for saving water, we lived on board for 20 years. So when our tanks were empty we had to fill up. We held 2,000 gallons.
We still don’t waste any water.
Exactly the same in our motohome.

When the (greedy and incompetent) water companies put customers first and also fix the 20-30% of all our water supplies leaking away and build new reservoirs, then I’ll consider how I can save water.

We are a large family currently so do use the washing machine a lot. But no baths in our house so all showers, the other 5 adults living here are very brief showerers, not me I’m afraid!

We don’t leave taps running when cleaning teeth.

I think people who are still on water rates rather than meters will have less incentive to be 'water aware', but we should all do our best not to waste water.

Water should never have been privatised in my opinion, and Thames Water is one of the worst. It even borrowed money to pay its shareholders, racking up debt at an horrendous rate while failing its customers left right and centre. Yes I'm angry at the un-repaired water leaks, the sewerage spills etc. and will raise a cheer if it does come back under public governance.

I was brought up to save water as my dsf was a distribution engineer for a water board. He was worried about supply back in the 60s. Water should never have been privatised.

teabagwoman

I was brought up to save water as my dsf was a distribution engineer for a water board. He was worried about supply back in the 60s. Water should never have been privatised.

As much as I could quite easily line the water company bosses against a wall and ( you know the rest)
But as obscene/ corrupt that they have been the coming water shortages arnt all down to these thieving *&£@#@#£#.
Our biggest problem is lack of reservoirs
We havnt built any new ones for 30 years.
In 30 years the uk population has grown from 58.2 mil. To 69.9- 70.2 mil.

www.google.com/search?q=The+uk+is+in+danger+of+not+having+enough+fresh+water&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:7b27c8ee,vid:ykj5rHnuYI4,st:0.

Water meters for all should be the norm.