Piss Poor
Big shout out to Thames Water, who have banned hosepipes before the weather was warm enough to remember if you had a garden or not, and issued advice to change the way people brush their teeth in a bid to cope with global warming.
Resevoir levels in the south of the UK are at their lowest level for over a hundred years.
Last week, a leak in London's Kensington High Street which gushed ten times higher than the also piss-poor Princess Di memorial fountain nearby, shut the road through town, flooded several shops, and, wait for it, was allowed to carry on spewing out water overnight losing hundreds of litres of water every minute.
A BBC reporter was at story eight hours after the leak began and there wasn't one Thames Water fucker in sight!
Then we hear from E.R. correspondent Alex that after a serious leak broke out in her house, TW say they will be nearly three weeks before they are round to fix it.
I wouldn't be suprised if it's the recently set-up Thames Water Action Taskforce Service that comes round to fix it (look out for T.W.A.T.S. on the side of the van).
Surely, with their profits and our bills rising, they are telling us it's not raining, and pissing in our boots.
Resevoir levels in the south of the UK are at their lowest level for over a hundred years.
Last week, a leak in London's Kensington High Street which gushed ten times higher than the also piss-poor Princess Di memorial fountain nearby, shut the road through town, flooded several shops, and, wait for it, was allowed to carry on spewing out water overnight losing hundreds of litres of water every minute.
A BBC reporter was at story eight hours after the leak began and there wasn't one Thames Water fucker in sight!
Then we hear from E.R. correspondent Alex that after a serious leak broke out in her house, TW say they will be nearly three weeks before they are round to fix it.
I wouldn't be suprised if it's the recently set-up Thames Water Action Taskforce Service that comes round to fix it (look out for T.W.A.T.S. on the side of the van).
Surely, with their profits and our bills rising, they are telling us it's not raining, and pissing in our boots.
posted by ENGLISH RANTER at Sunday, April 02, 2006
3 Comments:
This is absurd. And yet so fucking predictable. Particularly ironic that Kent, the Garden of England, can't get a good watering.
Its nowt to do with rainfall levels. Its all the leaky, crap centuary old pipes that loose the water from the reservoirs. Lack of investment you see.
Then right, THEN, when they come to your house because you have kicked up a big stink and gone on about the moral implications of letting leaks leak and threatening to go to the papers, they send a bloke round who confirms that yes you do have a leak. And then he gives you some paper work that you have to get all the peopole who share that mains pipe to fill in and then they all get charged £150 each for the mains water pipe to be patched up. And it can take more than a month to process the paper work if you ever manage to get everyone to fill it in anyway.
Meanwhile, guess what? The water is switched off. Isn't that great? Viva the T.W.A.T.S.
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