Its a part of his australian charm Vlad, you get used to it after
a while !!
Donkeyman!
Yes Assman I probably do know a bit about it because I installed my water collection system myself.
It is called a “first flush diverter system” (Google it if you need to know more). There are a lot of different systems but mine is similar to that in the picture except the vertical pipe is over two metres long and 90mm in diameter. When the rain ceases the pipe slowly drains empty through the filter at the bottom ready for the next time.
You are quite correct the dams in question are the Sydney water supply (Sydney Water was probably a bit of a giveaway) but Sydney is 64% of the NSW population however the dams also supply Wollongong, Shellharbour and the Southern Highlands.
That is probably why NSW stands for Newcastle Sydney Wollongong.
Small towns in NSW do run out of water and have had to rely on trucked in water or bore water but we have discussed this elsewhere.
I can’t speak for the rest of the country though I know Adelaide gets its water from the Murray River and the rivers all over the country have weirs for town supply. Northern Australia is tropical so has a monsoon but I have no idea where Melbourne or Perth get their water from.
There you go Assman a project for you.
Thanks for the diagramns Brucy, l see that system is an improvement
on the hole in a bucket system as it has less moving parts!
The bucket system was also an ozzie invention if l am remembering
correctly?? So y ou can feel quite proud of your country ?
BTW, How did we get onto ozzie water supplies?
The thread was uk water supplies??
Donkeyman!
Yes you did but I was referring to to the semi expletive…I thought you put up a good case but you blew it.
What on earth is a semi expletive? and which expletive did I use? I looked back at all my messages but I can’t see one. You can’t mean “dam” surely?
Sorry about the delay in replying Bruce. The desal water I used to drink in Malaysia was supplied in ½l bottles by the hotel I stayed in in KL. It was free to all hotel guests so I never complained about the taste.
On the subject of UK water, I read something only today about this, some of which I will quote for you now:
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"Areas of the UK are in danger of running out of water in the next two decades, unless steps are taken to stop the three billion litres of water lost every day by leaking pipes.
"A report by the PAC (Public Accounts Committee) has accused water companies of being too slow to act on the problem since water privatisation two decades ago.
" As well as failing to fix the network of leaking pipes, water companies also released raw sewage into rivers more than 200,000 times in 2019.
"Meg Hillier MP, the chair of the PAC,said: “It is hard to imagine, in this country, turning the tap and not having enough clean, drinkable water come out - but that is exactly what we now face. Continued inaction by the water industry means that we continue to lose one fifth of our daily supply to leaks.”
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Rather a bleak outlook for the not too distant future, isn’t it.
Oh I see, I always drink the tap water it is perfectly safe in my experience though most hotels had electric jugs so you could boil it if you felt the need. However in practice I rarely drink water unless it is diluted with beer, coffee or tea.
That makes a good case for re- nationalisation of ALL public
services imo Mups ?
When their contracts run out, dont renew them !
The workers can be re- employed as they were before but ditch
the management and shareholders??
Instead of HS2 get our ancient infrastrusture such as water
reticulation and railways etc etc fixed up ?
These public private partnrships have only one purpose as we
are finding out !!
Donkeyman!
The hotel provided electric kettles for tea/coffee making but told its guests to never to use the tap water for this! The bottled water was supplied for drinking (cold and tea/coffee) and cleaning your teeth. Tap water was for showers, washing and shaving only.
I think you must have been in a more rural setting than Brucy
Percy??
How many stories high was your hotel?
Never mind how many stars !!
Donkeyman!
Interesting. I always stay with people in Malaysia in their private homes but the hotels I have stayed at are in Langkawi, Georgetown, Cameron Highlands, Malaka and Jahor Baru. I also stayed in the casino in the Genting Highlands but that was only once (awful place).
Crossing the border into Thailand, usually at Sadao, I have stayed at many more hotels in Hat Yai, Hua Hin, Bankok, Chang Mai, Chang Rai and cities like Ayutthaya and frankly always use the local water without problem.
On reflection the last time I had an upset stomach was in Nepal in 1972 on the Helumbul Trail (very dodgy spelling there)
My last trip:
No, Donks. I used to stay in hotels all over western and southern Malaysia when I went there on business trips. However, I was mainly based at a 3* hotel in KLCC (Kuala Lumpur City Centre) with 10 floors of bedrooms, just down the road from the Petronas Towers. This hotel was just about 400yds from our HQ and they had negotiated v. attractive room rates.
Trying to figure out how being British is linked to poor planning?
Who is going to buy back all the shares?
So nothing to do with population growth and everything to do with ineptitude.
The house I lived in in Brixton still had lead pipes (Latin = plumbum). I wonder if they are still in use?
All supply pipes that are the water company’s responsibility will not be of the lead variety right up to their main stopcock/valve. However, after that stopcock it is the responsibility of the property owner to maintain the pipes and I expect a very small number could still possibly be lead. Most were replaced some years ago for copper and today the material is of the blue plastic variety.
Could be the reason for your intellectual problems Brucy???
Donkeyman!
Hit the nail on the head there Annie…
Such an influx of people into England in such a short space of time equals utilities that are unable to supply demand. Hence the number of roadworks we now see.