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Water... it comes out of the tap for almost free.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@HootyTheNightOwl I have seen that point made very simply, graphically, next to M1 in Nottinghamshire, although if you are the driver you can have only a very quick sideways glimpse of it.
I don;t know if you've seen it too.
Severn-Trent Water's treatment plant there has a long wall facing the road. On this a painting represents:
[1-off 1-litre bottle of shop-bought plain water] = [a long row of 1-litre bottles of plain tap-water]. I think it is 1 to 20.
Potable water via the tap at really quite low-cost, yet people still buy from the supermarkets, big plastic bottles of, what, exactly? Plain tap-water? Then moan about the water bills?
I suspect most people know about the (mainly foreign) shareholders' well-publicised greed and I share their concerns over that; but they have absolutely no idea of the scale and complexity of the public utilities beyond their homes' front walls. Unless engineers themselves, they don't know and don't want to know.
I don;t know if you've seen it too.
Severn-Trent Water's treatment plant there has a long wall facing the road. On this a painting represents:
[1-off 1-litre bottle of shop-bought plain water] = [a long row of 1-litre bottles of plain tap-water]. I think it is 1 to 20.
Potable water via the tap at really quite low-cost, yet people still buy from the supermarkets, big plastic bottles of, what, exactly? Plain tap-water? Then moan about the water bills?
I suspect most people know about the (mainly foreign) shareholders' well-publicised greed and I share their concerns over that; but they have absolutely no idea of the scale and complexity of the public utilities beyond their homes' front walls. Unless engineers themselves, they don't know and don't want to know.
@ArishMell I haven't been by that way in seven or eight years now.
While I don't agree with how Severn Trent and their likes are pumping raw sewage into our waterways, I still don't see the logic of buying water in a single use plastic bottle when you can purchase a water bottle and get it filled for free in a lot of places now.
I admit that this is less than perfect in that you have to ask for a water refill but it's better than having to fill up in a public bathroom and you are reusing your own bottle.
While I don't agree with how Severn Trent and their likes are pumping raw sewage into our waterways, I still don't see the logic of buying water in a single use plastic bottle when you can purchase a water bottle and get it filled for free in a lot of places now.
I admit that this is less than perfect in that you have to ask for a water refill but it's better than having to fill up in a public bathroom and you are reusing your own bottle.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@HootyTheNightOwl Buying a proper water-bottle you can fill at home or a public water-fountain, to use on a journey, is fine.
My comment was about having perfectly good water on tap but still buying expensive bottles of water to drink at home.
"Public bathrooms"? I have often used public lavatories but I thought it was only America that has public bathrooms! :-)
My comment was about having perfectly good water on tap but still buying expensive bottles of water to drink at home.
"Public bathrooms"? I have often used public lavatories but I thought it was only America that has public bathrooms! :-)