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27 minutes ago, daveatdave said:

why don't they build a desalination plant and pump it round the network that they put in. it might also cure the rising sea level 

The reason is, it's cheaper to make treatment plants bigger, oh hang on, the water companies sold off all the land around the treatment plants for development over the years. Most can't be expanded now, and new plants are now way to much to build now some of the water authorities are boarding on bankruptcy.

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They built a desalination plant in London fifteen years ago, it's never ever been turned on yet still costs us millions a year just to keep it ready every year.

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I knew there would be a hosepipe ban in place soon so I got a van full of these off my mate Slippery Jim. Get them while you can lads, mums the word...

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7 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

You couldn't make it up, massive increase in population over that time and  no more storage capacity.

 

The first person to mention global warming is having it...

That sort of thinking is working at the opposite end round here . Lots of new housing all connected to a Victorian sewer pipe that runs down the west dean valley which just cant cope . MTS tankers here pumping out 8 months of the year .   

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9 hours ago, Stubby said:

That sort of thinking is working at the opposite end round here . Lots of new housing all connected to a Victorian sewer pipe that runs down the west dean valley which just cant cope . MTS tankers here pumping out 8 months of the year .   

The sewer probably would cope if it wasn't for infiltration, old sewers take a lot groundwater in, the smallest amount of rainfall and they're overloaded. I worked for MTS for a short while,  I was glad to get out.

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1 hour ago, eggsarascal said:

The sewer probably would cope if it wasn't for infiltration, old sewers take a lot groundwater in, the smallest amount of rainfall and they're overloaded. I worked for MTS for a short while,  I was glad to get out.

That Egger me old mucker is exactly what happens . In the winter in one of the lower horse padlocks in West Dean the cocktail of storm water and sewage pushes one of the man hole covers up .  

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13 minutes ago, Stubby said:

That Egger me old mucker is exactly what happens . In the winter in one of the lower horse padlocks in West Dean the cocktail of storm water and sewage pushes one of the man hole covers up .  

 

Seen that the last year - short sharp storm, covers lifted and toilet paper flowing down the road

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7 minutes ago, Steven P said:

 

Seen that the last year - short sharp storm, covers lifted and toilet paper flowing down the road

Yep . MTS tankers pumping up in rotation , one after the other 24/7 . 

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