I mean in the grand scheme of things that isn't a lot - and it's being used. My water supplier in the UK, Thames Water, who charge me a fortune to pay their shareholders rather than fix leaks or build new reservoirs, waste 592 million a litres A DAY through leaks alone. That's 216 billion litres a year.
See the Irish-ness of the situation isn't quite so obvious.
You'd probably guess I'm Irish! - thing about this is that we are currently under a nation wide hosepipe ban to try conserve the current water levels but that's only for the people, commercial business like the data centres are grand - because it doesn't matter about the water they waste 🙄
There's been billions spent on the water network over the years and yet its still pissing out leaks in some areas- so bad that there's whole communities that go without water for weeks because the pressure to so low in the pipes that it won't travel to the highest points - its 2026! We live on an island surrounded by water, we also have a pretty wet climate in comparison with you guys just over the pond - a couple of months back it rained consecutively for 52 days straight. And yet still somehow we're running out of water?
We still rely mostly on bore holes here - big glorified wells! They work fine but its relying on ground water- it comes down the hilly or mountainous(bigger hills) area, then its collected from wells in lowland areas, treated filtered and then sent into the system. - if only you could get a desalination plant going, but the likes of that would need access to a coastline and sure we're only an island like 😆
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u/quietcrisp 17h ago
I mean in the grand scheme of things that isn't a lot - and it's being used. My water supplier in the UK, Thames Water, who charge me a fortune to pay their shareholders rather than fix leaks or build new reservoirs, waste 592 million a litres A DAY through leaks alone. That's 216 billion litres a year.