ARmy Rumour SErvice

Originally Posted by "Bugsy
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The water companies will do everything they can to make sure that you don't/can't install a water meter. That also includes lying outright.

They'll tell you that you have to pay (it's actually free), sometimes as much as £200, and that if you find that you pay more with the water meter, you can't switch back to an unmetered supply. You can within 12 months after the water meter's fitted.

Not my experience at all. My daughter decided to have one fitted as there are only two people in her house and out most of the working day. The water company could not get one in quick enough for her and were most helpful. So much so that we suspected they were up to something.

Look if any of you are really thirsty you can bring your mess tins and water bottle and fill up at my well!!!!!

This just because everyone is waking up to the idea of climate change bollox and the governments need to seed the next world devastation project to tax us to the hilt......

News item on water situation in Gaza strip

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/8327146.stm

Originally Posted by Mr_Deputy

I looked into water loss in Yorkshire around 95' while the supply probs were at their worst and I think they were losing something like 100, 000 litres a day through cracked pipes. scandalous.

In Kent I applied to have a meter installed as I know I'm paying way too much. At least one third too much in fact. To get one I have to carry out a petition in the area as they will meter the street/part of the street and then wait about 6-18 mths and if I'm lucky we'd get metered.

Tell them you're going to fit a power shower. The meter will be in by the end of the week.

Originally Posted by HectortheInspector

Here is a link to some forecasts on areas of water shortage.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7821082.stm

Basically, England is in roughly the same boat as Sudan.

Living in the Nothumbrian Water's area I'd just like to say that Kielder reservior is ours and the rest of you can pay through the nose for our water!

Originally Posted by Roadki11

Originally Posted by HectortheInspector

Here is a link to some forecasts on areas of water shortage.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7821082.stm

Basically, England is in roughly the same boat as Sudan.

Living in the Nothumbrian Water's area I'd just like to say that Kielder reservior is ours and the rest of you can pay through the nose for our water!

I think the Kazhaks might be in the market soon.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/8326594.stm

By way of the New Scientist website.......

Originally Posted by New Scientist

IF THE world fails to act soon on climate change, "preserving security and stability even at current levels will become increasingly difficult". That's the blunt message of a statement released in Washington DC (PDF) last week by 10 high-ranking military officials from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the US.

The group, which makes up the military advisory council of the Institute for Environmental Security in The Hague, the Netherlands, is calling on governments to produce an "ambitious and equitable" international agreement at the Copenhagen climate talks in December (see Instant Expert: The Copenhagen climate change summit).

"Environmental security and climate change in particular are now issues which threaten world security and peace," says Brigadier General Wendell King of the US Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.