Water bills in England and Wales to rise 5.7% in April, page 1

Okay... The % increase in this story wasn't something to get my attention, but I was curious while scanning wire feeds and clicked to read more. What came next was enough to choke over. Tell me this isn't accurate England??

Average water and sewerage bills in England and Wales will rise by 5.7% from April to about £376 per household.

To save my fellow Americans the trouble, that comes to $591.71 in American Dollars at this mornings exchange rate. That is literally more than my mortgage! The article goes on to say:

"Inflation feeds through into water bills, and this is driving these rises," Regina Finn, Ofwat's chief executive, said in a statement on Tuesday.

"We understand that any bill rise is unwelcome, particularly in tough economic times. We will make sure customers get value for money," she said.

Source: BBC

If I'm not mistaken, the financial news is talking an awful lot about how inflation hasn't even begun in serious ways across the Western economies, including England. So, what is to happen with all this when the numbers really start to count? This is downright scary when we're talking nearly $600 a month for a water bill.

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Two points - 1. I believe the water and sewage bill quoted is for a year - not a month. 2. The UK privatized their water and sewage in the 90s. Of course a private company is going to milk the system for maximum profit and I will lay any money they don't put much back into the system in the form of maintanance.

Tired of Control freaks

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That price is for a year, it is very expensive,some people opt out and have water meters installed, where you pay for what you use. This has however sent the cost for some households through the roof and once you have a meter installed , i believe after a year theywill not remove it.

If you take the governments logic over here for flouridating the water and listen to some of the propoganda about it in how it strengthens teeth etc, then perhaps they are also hoping to reduce pipe repalcement time, the flouride may perhaps strngthen the old lead pipes that are still in use in lots of areas. (sarcasm off)

Seriously, water should not be this expensive, with all the crap they put in it now they should be paying us to drink it.

Anyone in the uk that has 2 hours and about 75 pounds spare, take a look at using a basic reverse osmosis filtration system, costs around 20 pounds a year in filters and the water is alot safer and tastes way better.

Anyone wants further details pm me and i will give you a link to where i got mine which is the cheapest placei have found them.

Originally posted by brommas
reply to post by Wrabbit2000

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Seriously, water should not be this expensive, with all the crap they put in it now they should be paying us to drink it.

Anyone in the uk that has 2 hours and about 75 pounds spare, take a look at using a basic reverse osmosis filtration system, costs around 20 pounds a year in filters and the water is alot safer and tastes way better.

Anyone wants further details pm me and i will give you a link to where i got mine which is the cheapest placei have found them.

Though these days if you do this they are trying to get you to get it tested and make you pay for the water too. We get this alot as I work in the a lab testing this.... It's a great shame that soon you will have to pay for the rain.

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