NT water authority mystified as community uses 1,300 litres per person, per day
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The Northern Territory's water provider remains mystified as to why a tiny island community of 1,800 people is consuming an estimated 2.5 million litres per day.
After weeks of investigation, Nigel Deacon from Power and Water Corporation (PWC) said it was no closer to resolving the astronomical consumption figures for the Bathurst Island community of Wurrumiyanga.
"At Wurrumiyanga the daily consumption per person is around about 1,300 litres per day, so that's a huge amount and it's probably around about four or five times sustainable levels."
At the same time, locals have been complaining of water supply problems for more than a month.
Tiwi Islands Regional Council chief executive Marion Scrymgour told ABC Radio Darwin early in October that low water pressure was affecting local businesses.
Map: Wurrumiyanga map
She said grass on the community's football fields had browned and that council had to close on at least one day because amenities had stopped working.
Mystery over cause
Even late at night, when water usage would ideally be close to zero, Mr Deacon said certain areas of the island were consuming about 23 litres of water per second.
"We'd like to see zero, but something around about a tenth of that would be appropriate," he said.
"That's a huge amount of water going somewhere and that's the thing we need to find."
PWC teams last week conducted section testing on the island, meaning they were narrowing down areas of high consumption to get a better sense of where the water was being used.
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TLDR dispshits leaving taps running and not fixing leaks. To put this mammoth consumption in context, a typical modern shower will use around 9 litres per minute.
There has to be a broken pipe somewhere for the water pressure to get so low.
Got a Nestle near by?
Or a really big faucet that some jackass left on.
Do they not have water meters on every household? Can they not determine by a matter of substitution where the usage is coming from?
Any sane water utility would. Either that, or someone is tampering with their meter. Or, as pointed out, they actually have a mains leak.
It's your pipes you dumbasses fix it
Soon a huge sinkhole will open up and then they'll know where the leak was.
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