Stop using your hosepipes NOW
WITH the lack of rain this month and more heatwaves predicted, we are told to take short showers, not use hosepipes in the garden and try to conserve water as much as possible. In future years, we may expect climate change to make the situation even worse. Yet the plan is to build millions more houses across the country. How do the Government and those in authority propose to provide enough water for the occupants of all these new homes?
MARION WEST, Chatteris, Cambs.
ONCE again we read of reservoirs drying up and water shortages affecting parts of the country.
I fail to understand why our island nation doesn’t invest in desalination plants around its coast. If a small country like the Maldives can, why can’t we?
EILEEN HARRINGTON, Bognor Regis, W. Sussex.
WOULD it be too much to ask what Britain’s largely foreign-owned water companies have done in recent years to create or deepen reservoirs?
Mr R. A. SMITH, Hadleigh, Suffolk.
WE’VE had months of below-average rainfall, so why are we waiting to introduce hosepipe bans? All unnecessary water usage should be stopped immediately, as we don’t know if there will be much more summer rainfall. People should be educated to treat water as a precious resource and not waste it.
M. SOUTHON, Christchurch, Dorset.
IF THE Government made it law that no dividends could be paid to water company shareholders until the firm’s pipework was almost leakfree, the problem might be solved.
G. M. LAVERICK, Penrith, Cumbria.
THE arrogant water companies are still losing 660 million gallons of water every day because of leaks, as they have done for years, yet still no action is taken against them. We need to preserve as much as we can of this valuable resource, not least to keep the cost down for customers. The public should not be blamed for those companies’ consistent failures.
PAUL MACKINTOSH, Darlington, Co Durham.
PERHAPS we should pour bottled spring water into the potholes in our roads and paddle in them for a few days to stay cool.
ROBERT HAYWOOD, Stapleford, Notts.
IF YOU have a mixer tap in your kitchen, don’t allow water to run down the plughole while adjusting the mix to get the temperature you need. Let it run into a bowl and keep it for watering plants in the evening.
JANE ALDOUS, Market Deeping, Lincs.