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just to be clear, are you talking about the village being connected to a larger water infrastructure, or specific residents and businesses in the village being
by s1artibartfast 2y ago
just to be clear, are you talking about the village being connected to a larger water infrastructure, or specific residents and businesses in the village being connected to the village infrastructure?
- ben_w 2y agoI'd have to look up the exact network topology to even be able to distinguish between those two. The rules are at the level of homes and the companies which supply them with water, of which there are a small number nationwide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_water_companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_water_companies Places are not incorporated in the UK the way they are in the US, so "the village infrastructure" doesn't (so far as I know) even get well-defined, which makes it hard to make national laws that prevent it being disconnected from a wider network if that's what the suppliers want to do while supplying some particular house.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoThat's really interesting. In the US, it is common for water distribution to be managed at the level of town or city water districts. these may purchase water from larger scale state infrastructure, but will try to source water locally via wells where possible. There are some cities where building codes require connection to the water grid for habitability, but this is much less common for unincorporated county land.