Archive for June 22nd, 2006

22
Jun '06

Drip, Drip, Drip – Extra

   Posted by: lyle    in Charm School, Customer Services, Green

Ah, I do like annoying people.

I’ve just emailed the following to Thames Water’s customer services.

To whom it may concern,

If, as your current news story puts it, “Approximately a quarter of all leakage is on customers’ pipes.�, that still means that three-quarters of all leakage is on TW’s side of the pipes.

How does a utility company justify selling people a product, and then telling them they can’t use it?

How does a utility company justify leaks that amount to the equivalent of 6.6 million people’s daily usage ( using the DFID’s estimate of 135 litres per person per day ) every day ?

I’m just interested to know.

Sincerely

Lyle

Should be interesting to see what they come up with…

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22
Jun '06

Drip, Drip, Drip

   Posted by: lyle    in Domestic, Green, Thoughts, Weirdness

How on earth can a water company justify losing 894 million litres per day of water? That’s something like 675,000 litres per second.

Taking the assumption that a person uses about 135 litres of water per day, that loss is equal to the water supply for 6.6million people. Considering that Thames Water only supplies 8 million people all told, that’s a pretty fucking big loss, I’d say. In fact, if you take into account the people they do supply, as well as the amount they’re losing, if they were an efficient company, they could supply 14.5 million people. That’d make the shareholders happy.

So how come it’s the users of Thames Water who are penalised by drought orders and hosepipe bans, when Thames Water themselves are the biggest water wasters of all?

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