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Following on from my last post, the news is getting bleaker by the day.

Thames Water have just announced a hosepipe ban starting in a few weeks time. This is the first time they have been this concerned for 16 years! The River Thames is flowing at half of it's normal levels, which is disastrous at this time of the year. Have a look at the Environment\Climate Change page on Thames Water's website, for a glimpse of what is likely to happen.

I also came across this worrying article in the Independent on Sunday.

My personal view is that all consumers in the UK should be on water meters. The water companies know what is a reasonable amount of water for any occupancy pattern. For consumers going beyond these levels, an increasingly punitive scale of charges should be applied. I realise that this is a draconian approach, but I can not see any other course of action that is going to shock people out of their wasteful ways.