Water Load of Old Bollocks

They are at it again, our wonderous Government. Fed up with all those nasty price rises, fellow consumers? Well the Government are about to fuck you again with massive hikes in water bills, compulsory metering, as told here.

Some choice bits:

Hilary Benn is calling for compulsory metering and price rises in a effort to drive water consumption down by a fifth.

He says that the current daily consumption of 150 litres is unsustainable and should be reduced to 120 litres per person by the year 2030

Crazy environmentalist cretin, isn't he. I mean not only does he have a girl's name, but he's acting like a big hairy arsehead.

Now, remind me. What's the percentage of, say London's water supply, that is lost due to leaky pipes? 10%? 20%? 50%? All of it?

Well, according to this article, it varies by company, but in total around 3.6 billion litres are lost. Each day. Yes, this about that. Each day. Fucking alot, isn't it?

So, how many people in the UK? Let's say 60m. So at 150 litres per day per person that makes consumption of around 9bn. Assuming that everybody uses the same, which we don't. So 9bn is way way high. But good enough for my argument.

Ok, so 9bn litres a day. And the water companies are wasting 3.6bn.

Why don't we concentrate on the leaks instead? Oh no, let's go and punish the consumers and fuck them up good, say the Government Eco Wankers.

Get the rope. I know where the lamppposts are!!!!!