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> With the looming water crisis ahead, every drop of savings is a plus. Agreed. What's worrying though is the amount of water wasted in the delivery network.
by rytis 4y ago
> With the looming water crisis ahead, every drop of savings is a plus.
Agreed.
What's worrying though is the amount of water wasted in the delivery network. Really annoying when people trying to save a litre here or there and then millions are just going straight in to the ground.
https://www.thameswater.co.uk/about-us/performance/leakage-performance https://www.thameswater.co.uk/about-us/performance/leakage-p...
> Every day we supply 2.6 billion litres of water, but not all of that gets to our customers. At the moment, we leak almost 24% of the water we supply.
- egeozcan 4y agoIf you speak German and want to see an example for wasting a lot of water so casually: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bykcfJgye2M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bykcfJgye2M The gist of the story is, because of the unmaintained leaky pipes of a decorative water installation, the city of Marburg wasted 20 million liters per year. A comedy show on state television is making fun of them.
- thorin 4y agoWhen I was working on the grid a few years ago we got all the data on leakage to plow through and it was greater than 50% at that point (UK)!