Comment on Thames Water tried to make MP pay its legal fees of up to £1,400 an hour
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 days agoThere’s a hosepipe ban because much of England is still in drought. A few weeks of rain isn’t going to fix things. If it isn’t an especially wet winter, the drought will carry over and next summer will be brutal on agriculture and the vulnerable.
OwlPaste@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Privatising Thames water is the reason our infrastructure is not capable dealing with a lower rainfall. Maybe if they built enough reservoirs and foxe dtheir damn leaks, we wouldn’t be shitting ourselves and wondering if showering is okay.
ps i don’t even have a hose
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 day ago
It’s more the hottest summer in at least 141 years, preceded by the driest spring in 132 years, with the 3 hottest springs all occurring since 2017. In addition, a century of intensive farming has used up the residual groundwater in many places.
A nationalised water system would be just as - if not more - investment averse. Look to the RAAC situation, or British Rail. Privatisation is not the root cause of the drought.