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peterlee · M
Our water companies are so corrupt in the UK, we rely on it now.
My town was cut off from water for six days last year.
So we had to buy bottled water for drinking, but rain water for the loo.
Having a shower was impossible, just a wash from a bowl of rain water.
My town was cut off from water for six days last year.
So we had to buy bottled water for drinking, but rain water for the loo.
Having a shower was impossible, just a wash from a bowl of rain water.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@peterlee Don't apply that to all.
It is not true of my supplier, Wessex Water, for a start but I dislike its being one of so many formerly-UK companies ownwed by foreigners - in this case the Malaysian hotels, concrete and hotels company YTL.
Anyway, did that loss of supply (which I think is illegal to leave not corrected), presumably due to a major engineering breakdown, stem from corruption as you allege, or from managerial incompetence and negligence? I do not condone either, but they are two totally different matters.
It is not true of my supplier, Wessex Water, for a start but I dislike its being one of so many formerly-UK companies ownwed by foreigners - in this case the Malaysian hotels, concrete and hotels company YTL.
Anyway, did that loss of supply (which I think is illegal to leave not corrected), presumably due to a major engineering breakdown, stem from corruption as you allege, or from managerial incompetence and negligence? I do not condone either, but they are two totally different matters.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@peterlee I was not excusing it, let alone condoning it!
Of course it is wrong - but why did it happen?
You allege corruption but you need offer evidence for that - it could have been by neglect and incompetence but those are not corruption. They are simply very bad mismanagement. Has any action been taken against the senior managers who allowed the failure to last so long?
I can understand repairs might have taken a week but some form of temporary plant should have been installed to bypass the failed section, as rapidly as possible.
In such works it sometimes entails a large-diameter blue hose laid along the roadside. Recently a long length of new water-mains was laid in an area of the Mendip Hills, served I think by South-West Water. The work took a few months I think. I know from friends in the area that all residents and businesses affected were kept fully informed, bypass lines were fitted to each stretch being replaced; and breaks in supply were kept to a minimum in occurrence and duration, and notified in advance.
Now, that work was planned, but presumably your situation was unplanned, by breakdown. Even so, your company should still have taken basic action to restore piped supply as soon as possible, until the permanent plant was repaired.
If it did not, Ofwat should be asking very firmly, why not.
I shoukd add I have never worked, nor held shares, in that industry.
Of course it is wrong - but why did it happen?
You allege corruption but you need offer evidence for that - it could have been by neglect and incompetence but those are not corruption. They are simply very bad mismanagement. Has any action been taken against the senior managers who allowed the failure to last so long?
I can understand repairs might have taken a week but some form of temporary plant should have been installed to bypass the failed section, as rapidly as possible.
In such works it sometimes entails a large-diameter blue hose laid along the roadside. Recently a long length of new water-mains was laid in an area of the Mendip Hills, served I think by South-West Water. The work took a few months I think. I know from friends in the area that all residents and businesses affected were kept fully informed, bypass lines were fitted to each stretch being replaced; and breaks in supply were kept to a minimum in occurrence and duration, and notified in advance.
Now, that work was planned, but presumably your situation was unplanned, by breakdown. Even so, your company should still have taken basic action to restore piped supply as soon as possible, until the permanent plant was repaired.
If it did not, Ofwat should be asking very firmly, why not.
I shoukd add I have never worked, nor held shares, in that industry.