The Herald’s David Bols is positively dribbling with excitement as he exposes the SNP’s nationalised water supply system’s leaks.
I don’t know if he goes on to further damage Scotland’s leaky reputation with these facts:
Leakage measured in litres per person per day is significantly lower in England and Wales than in Scotland and Northern Ireland. In 2020-21 England and Wales leaked 51 litres of water per person per day while in Scotland and Northern Ireland this figure was above 80 litres of water.
https://www.ofwat.gov.uk/leakage-in-the-water-industry/#leakage4
Should we just give up on this one?
Nope.
The UK water supply network could stretch to the moon and back
Water reaches our homes through thousands of miles of underground pipes. Water companies in the UK are responsible for 215,277 miles of pipes, enough to stretch 8.5 times around the equator
https://piperepair.co.uk/2020/12/09/water-supply-in-the-uk-5-facts-about-our-water-and-the-network-behind-it/#:~:text=Water%20reaches%20our%20homes%20through,to%20the%20moon%20and%20back.
Scotland has 30 516 of those miles of pipes: https://www.scottishwater.co.uk/About-Us/Who-We-Are/Our-Vital-Role
So, England with ten times the population to pay for maintenance has only 6 times (184 76) the miles of water pipes.
Also, should we, need we, pay for even higher maintenance costs?
Covering about 2% of Scotland’s land area, our rivers and lochs contain 90% of the UK’s surface freshwater.
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Why is it so important to plug all the leaks in some other parts of the UK?
One of the biggest challenges facing the water supply network in the UK is ensuring that supplies do not run out. Population density in the south east means that there is less water available per person than in desert states such as Syria and Sudan.
Climate change threatens to reduce supplies even further by bringing longer, hotter summers to the UK, resulting in more drought. An increasing population will further stretch resources, leading to fears that taps could run dry by 2050.
https://piperepair.co.uk/2020/12/09/water-supply-in-the-uk-5-facts-about-our-water-and-the-network-behind-it/#:~:text=Water%20reaches%20our%20homes%20through,to%20the%20moon%20and%20back.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Next it will be all the water that leaks from the skies over Scotland.
It’s the rain stupid.
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A well named chappie.
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Towards the end of that report they’re stressing the 5% increase in prices, ie below inflation, but ignore the 100% or thereabouts increase in electricity prices we’ve suffered. The difference of course is Scottish Water is still publicly owned unlike the awful privatised electricity companies
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The REAL ongoing ‘leaking’ story here is The Herald’s credibility and honesty and too the fact that they , as part of our media, present themselves as ones who supposedly employ ‘Journalists’…..
Pond life is perhaps nearer the truth as a collective term…..
Obviously no depth is too low in them employing what are the clearly the DREGS of journalistic ‘talent’…..mostly sourced via a ‘draining of a swamp’ to find those who are more than happy to inhabit murky waters in return for financial gain…..not so much a career really…more an opportunity or willingness to swim with the sharks ……same ones that sees their , and others, publications now drowning in heir own sea of disinformation (Lies) that they themselves have chosen to present as the facts and truth…. BUT which has now seen their, and too many other publications , sales diminish……so it seems you do reap what you sow….or to continue the ‘water’ theme….you sink or swim….thankfully most of them are sinking….
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I’ve long been dubious over leakage figures submitted by England’s water companies to Ofwat – The companies have a financial interest in “gilding the lily”, and Ofwat do what they are told by politicians.
On one training course attended down south, I ended up chatting with an Engineer for Yorkshire Water – Over a pint or two, he shocked me the leakage figures he was quoting, somewhere around the 50% mark, and there was no money to repair “uneconomic” leaks according to management.
You may recall the convoy of bulk whisky tankers streaming south from Scotland not long after to feed yet another drought in Yorkshire.
London and the South-East of England will run out of potable water within the next 20 years and there is no source available bar the sea.
Instead of building ca 60 RO plants from the 1990s onward, they built one, in London….
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Indeed….spot on…..interesting info Bob…..as in when one gets to speak to a Monkey (worker LOL) and not the Organ grinder (company)….or indeed those who are supposed to keep them in check (regulator and the UK government)….another #FailureForTheToryParty
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If you want to see the Tory party at work just search for the number of Court cases where DEFRA stands accused and look for reports on it in England’s media, they are few and far between including the current one.
And the roll-call of ‘honest’ Ministers in charge of this outfit since 2010 –
Thérèse Coffey MP 2022-
Ranil Jayawardena 2022-2022
George Eustice MP 2020-2022
Theresa Villiers MP 2019-2020
Michael Gove MP 2017-2019
Andrea Leadsom MP 2016-2017
Elizabeth Truss MP 2014-2016
Owen Paterson MP 2012-2014
Dame Caroline Spelman 2010-2012
I wouldn’t trust a single one of these MPs to run a bath…
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My God looking at some of these names it’s not in the least shocking or surprising ……but what is shocking and surprising (or maybe not) is that the media are not all over it as story…..I guess a story is only considered HOT when it involves a specific party….which then turns it from being a story into a soap opera…..a nightly one….where it is then repeated again and again long after storyline should be dead and buried….sometimes they, the media, like to change the cast, and pick a new villain but one still from that same specific party but with a different storyline…which then too….is turned into a nightly, repeated soap opera….etc etc
They, the TELEVISED media, do it so often that they fail to notice that the public are not too keen on….REPEATS…..LOL
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Saw a wee video released by Yorkshire water.
They now drive left hard drive cars, on the right side of the road.
The kitchens now use continental sockets, not 3 pin style.
The local pub shown is based in Russia and sell Russian beers.
The only Yorkshire entity was the Logo.
Propaganda light.
Video was withdrawn very quickly.
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Blimey, that would be interesting to see, no wonder they took it down.
I saw a comment about ‘British water companies’ other day, but isn’t it the case they are mostly foreign owned companies, not even sure if they have offices in England or where they are HQ’d.
Also of course most reporting abroad, about sewage in England’s rivers and sea, is a Uk wide problem. Ukish/Britain/British, all in it together, even apparently when it comes to pumping sh*te into the rivers. No thanks.
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