Fuck off Thems water, its infrastructure is in shambles and even after weeks of rain the hosepipe ban is still in force in my area. how can you missmanage infrastructure to such a collosal incompetence?
Thames Water tried to make MP pay its legal fees of up to £1,400 an hour
Submitted 3 weeks ago by sixeyo@lemmy.world to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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OwlPaste@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
There’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 3 weeks 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
FishFace@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Everything I read about the water companies fills me with despair. The damage is done and there’s no practical way to achieve a fair outcome now.
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Fair outcome.
Allow them to go bankrupt with absolutely no help from gov.
Use Millarory stand pipes like in 76 to distribute water to everyone while they vanish as a company.
Then build a new nationalised water system rapidly repairing all assets. Using military to manage and offering well paid work to any unemployed (many of who will be ex water employees) willing and able to take on the job.
Then have government site and stare manically at electrical and gas companies. Asking. " So how do you guys plan to get prices below the world average?"
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
The standpipes which are connected to the mains which is operated by the company which now doesn’t exist?
And somehow there is a section of people who think the army can just step in and take over a whole system for an extended period and somehow be competent at it. While also magically fulfilling all their standing obligations. If such were remotely possible, it’s time for swingeing cuts to an obviously bloated military.
FishFace@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
You know, that might the best suggestion I’ve heard actually. Thanks for your perspective.
Denjin@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
If the government had any guts they’d nationalise them all tomorrow and write off debts but they’re too scared of the banks.
FishFace@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Well, and with good reason, right? If the government goes writing off debts, it makes lending less attractive, and lending fuels the economy by increasing the money supply.