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Thames water are reporting issues in n1 n4 n5 n7 N19
Lancaster road is definitely off.
Lancaster road is definitely off.
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https://www.mylondon.news/news/north-london-news/live-updates-finsbury-park-burst-17048769
Thames Water is also among the water firms destroying the UK's unique chalk streams by tapping into the aquifers for water - at the same time as letting it leak out on a daily basis and in events like this.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7542069/How-Feargal-Sharkey-leading-fight-against-greedy-water-companies-draining-chalk-streams.html
Thames Water lost 178 litres per property every day last year, the worst performance of any company.
To put that in context Consumer Council for Water stats show the average person in a two person household uses 300 litres of water a day.
So, each day Thames Water is losing more than half of what a customer uses every day.
Bonkers.
https://corporate.thameswater.co.uk/media/Facts-and-figures
TW is a very big organisation and I guess fixing leaks must be never ending. Bit like squeezing a balloon, when you fix one the pressure goes up and the next weakest bit goes out.
Worked out using a mixture of Papa's numbers above and the total water supply of 27 billion litres that they are loosing about 6% which is not quite a sensational but still a lot
Does anyone know how many miles of old pipes they need to replace? - it will be an awful lot as it is that last bit where the numbers get very large when you consider a connection to very house.
I know in the Telecom world there is supposed to be around 72million miles of copper in last mile of the network.
Do feel very sorry for the 61 households affected.
Imagine the job of having to replace infrastructure across a massive city with hundreds of thousands of buildings owned by multitudes of different people - and then under the roads which you need to dig up on a daily basis. I don't think it's easy at all!
Privatising water should never have been done.
I wonder how bad it was before then?
https://www.thameswater.co.uk/-/media/Site-Content/Your-water-future-2018/Appendices/dWRMP19-Appendix-M---Leakage-011217.pdf
Seems to me that a preventative measure such as pressure management is probably on balance a good thing if it stops leaking and doesn't impact what customers get. I also hadn’t really thought of the impact there must be to water management when a residential tower block gets built. I wonder what impact the ugliness at FP station might have. Although it might not be much as I would image they are sold as investments and will be empty.
It would take years to even catch up with what we have already done badly.
And those in power then wonder why people object to widespread new home building.
It's not because they are nimbies, it's because they're not stupid.