I'm not surprised - I do it, my housemates do it and I'm pretty sure you do it too because we live in England, where most of the people in this country today have never gone a day in their life without that necessity of running water throught their taps. But what makes us British folk even less greatful for this life-saving essential is the fact that, not only do we take it for granted, we complain about it too.
Only too often do i hear, "urgh I hate tap water, i'll have a bottle of Evian" and I'll be honest, I've never appreciated the tap water, here, in Preston where I study for University. The reason I'm rambling on like this is because I actually found out today that United Utilities are investing about £56 million to improve its services to West Lancashire customers between 2005 and 2010. So we're pretty much bang smack in the middle of all this treatment. What's more, they claim that the water in the North West has never been so good, which makes me feel worse for the poor sods drinking it 3 decades ago.
United Utilities are going to start off with just over £6 million on West Lancashire's water treatment works, which I can only assume is the stuff that keeps the quality of our water tip top.
There's another £3 million going on maintaining the water supply system. That's basically getting rid of all the the old pipes, that are from as far back as the Victorian era!
The local water treatment isn't forgotten either, cos there's over £40 million pound being invested into that too, so United Utilities can clean and return the water safely back to the environment. This means cleaner rivers, streams and coastal bathing waters. A further £1.8 million has been put forward to prevent sewer overflows into local rivers and streams. £300,000 to improve the local sewer network and a further
£3.5 million will be invested to help prevent sewer flooding to customer properties.
So no more moaning, mine'll be a tap water, no ice.
Now, knowing how much money and effort goes into your disappointing tap water, you'll probably want to conserve it a little more eh?
Well you can find a wealth of the most "exciting" water conservation tips you'll find in this link here: http://www.3valleys.co.uk/water_efficiency/ah_we_watereffhome.shtml give it a go!
other sources: http://www.unitedutilities.com/?OBH=4179&ID=1450
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