England Can Save Water for Africa

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England Can Save Water for Africa

England has a freshwater shortage. We also have a hosepipe ban but you can still fill your swimming pool. However it is now a crime to water the lawn with your hosepipe!

Water shortage in UK occurs when winter and spring rainfall falls short of average levels and does not replenish the natural underground water reservoirs. This in turn places enormous stress on rapidly diminishing available supplies and is greatly the blame of the privatised water companies for not properly fixing leaks. As a prime example I refer to Thames Water who prefer the short term band aid on a cracked pipe as the cheaper option in favour of shareholder value instead of doing the job right first time and rebuilding old sections that will rupture again in a short time after band aids have been applied.

England’s privatised water companies leak 250 litres of water PER DAY PER PERSON IN EVERY HOUSEHOLD in England.

Just imagine the gallons, the litres that are wasted because of CEOs and CFOs wanting better margins for their fatcat bonuses at year-end. You can imagine what we could do with the leakage if we could capture it, barrel it and send it to Africa. But no, the UK fatcat wants his bonus. Its about time these guys unplugged their heads from their arses, woke up, smelled the death in Africa and stopped making a mockery of all the thousands of Africans who die each day because they lack water and food.

Africa needs a consolidated and robust program to raise public awareness to stimulate numerous voluntary action plans about conserving water and thereby making water accessible and readily available to all inhabitants of the continent.

We all need water to live and remain healthy. Sadly, millions of people across the globe face water shortages and a daily struggle to get fresh water that is safe to drink. The impact of water shortage issues on the health of people and the well-being of local communities and the world’s societies will escalate in the future. It is absolutely vital that we are all taught how to manage this resource before the last drop evaporates

And private water companies must take the lion’s share of funding all conservation actions in Africa and UK. They can afford to do it ten times over.

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Water, water everywhere and not a drop to spare
By Sue Cha The Times June 20, 2006

Water companies lose millions of litres in leaks but still apply for drought orders. How can they get away with it?

THAMES Water has in recent days applied for a drought order to allow it to further restrict use of water (there is already a hosepipe ban) by its five million customers in London and parts of Kent and Surrey. Meanwhile, figures published by Ofwat last July showed that the company was losing 913 million litres of water a day through unrepaired leakages. That is enough to fill 365 Olympic swimming pools.

The drought order for London is the first since the scorcher of 1976. If granted, it would take effect in early August, and follows a drought order granted to Sutton and East Surrey Water on May 15. The possibility of an application for a drought order affecting the Thames Valley area, even though rainfall has been higher there, cannot be ruled out; nor, it seems, can the possibility of a further application by Thames Water for an emergency drought order.

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