Live in uk? One water company may be putting a trickle device on your taps.
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[QUOTE=BISCUIT_TINS;17830117]This has just put a damper on my mood...
Seriously though, "Trickle devices would leave households with enough to drink, but not enough water for a shower." Not enough for a shower? The fuck?[/QUOTE]
Then they should pay their bills. Nothing stopping them from running a cold bath and washing in it once it is full after about 3 hours :v:
Have half of the thread not read the OP? The only reason why you'd have one of these installed is if you have not been paying for water, otherwise known as stealing.
What the heck is everyone complaining about? I can imagine anti-socialists would complain about it not going far enough, but how can you complain about a method that prevents people who can pay for water stealing it, while still providing water for those who need it.
In many countries if you don't pay your bills you get your water cut off, here in Britain (and of course other countries) if you can't afford water we protect people's human rights enough to mean they cannot be left without it.
If our country is as bad as many would have us believe, how do we have systems in place like this? So private companies have to provide houses with water, even if they don't pay? I think this fact is awesome personally, in a country that apparently seems so evil and disgusting to half the world.
Trickle devices make sense, why should someone who [i]can[/i] pay the water bill but decides not to because they are a selfish idiot get away with it? Those who cant pay should be paid for by government money, and those who won't should have trickle devices.
Seems to come from the "I should be able to get everything I want for however much I decide to pay for it, if at all" school of thought, kinda reminds me of the complaints music sharers have about how they have some strange right to decide how much they pay for their music, except this is actually something important.
[QUOTE=Alxnotorious;17831999]Well still, first there was the thread about the food recycling and then this. To us outsiders, it looks kinda hectic over there.[/QUOTE]
The sources of this kind of news are normally horribly biased tabloids (We probably have the worst tabloids in the world for actual news.)
Granted, this one is the BBC but my point still stands. The article clearly says one water company has suggested this might be a good idea. It's still illegal to cut off water supplies and there's no mention of the government even considering overturning that ban. People just aren't reading the article and jumping on the 'everything's going to shit' bandwagon because, well, that bandwagon is more interesting.
[QUOTE=petieng;17832249]The sources of this kind of news are normally horribly biased tabloids (We probably have the worst tabloids in the world for actual news.)
Granted, this one is the BBC but my point still stands. The article clearly says one water company has suggested this might be a good idea. It's still illegal to cut off water supplies and there's no mention of the government even considering overturning that ban. People just aren't reading the article and jumping on the 'everything's going to shit' bandwagon because, well, that bandwagon is more interesting.[/QUOTE]
I think it's just amusing that potential 'bin confusion' over having the horribly large total of [b]five[/b] bins and water being limited, not even cut off, just limited, to those [i]who don't pay their water bills[/i] are the 'craziest' things they could find.
If you told half the world about our 'serious' problems according to the tabloids they would probably have either a laughing fit or punch you in the face.
"Murders, theft, gangs, famine, drought, pssh, that's [b][i]nothing[/i][/b], here in the UK the government are forcing us to adhere to good recycling practices and use a whole five bins! And my goodness, when someone doesn't pay for their water they only get given enough to [i]drink![/i]"
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