Thames Water has been accused of repeatedly ignoring warnings about cuts to supplies and burst pipes in Surrey where hundreds of households had to endure three days without tap water at the height of this weekend’s heatwave.

Residents, including some that were vulnerable, had to queue for bottled water on Saturday in temperatures of well over 30C (86F) after a pump failure at Netley Mill treatment works.

By Sunday morning up to 1,000 homes began a third day without water. Supplies were restored to up to 9,000 homes, but many households still complained about low water pressure.

Thames Water apologised and confirmed it handed out bottled water to residents in Guildford, Surrey Hills, Dorking and Horsham while engineers worked to restore the supply.

Liz Townsend, a Liberal Democrat county councillor for Cranleigh and Ewhurst, called for Thames Water to be fined over the incident and said the company had failed to respond to numerous complaints about previous cuts in supplies.

“We’re completely exasperated,” she said. “We had a period last summer when there was just bottled water. We had no water in February during the storm, we had no water in the previous hot period at the beginning of July. And now another hot spell and we have no water.

“Our water infrastructure is not resilient enough to cope with all the new housing and the ageing pipes. Whenever they increase the pressure in the system, we get more and more bursts. I’ve been having talks with Thames Water for 10 years, and I’ve been up Westminster several times to raise it, but nobody takes any notice.”

Townsend wrote to Sarah Bentley, the chief executive of Thames Water, in July after a previous interruption in supply. The letter, seen by the Guardian, accused the company of taking months, and in some cases years, to repair burst pipes and said it reneged on a public commitment to provide residents with updates on water supplies.

Bentley has yet to respond.

A statement from Thames Water said: “Netley Mill water treatment works is now back in service and supply is gradually being restored to the local network. This will continue over the remainder of the day. We are very sorry that customers have been impacted especially at a time of high temperatures.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/202...y-without-water

Masalah air Selangor lebih kritikal

Owaiii wrong country

This post has been edited by omong: Aug 15 2022, 01:28 PM

You think we are any better?

https://www.theborneopost.com/2022/06/18/wa...lect-rainwater/

inb4 minister comparison

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Here not only no water for 3 days but come with free teh tarik from the tap also.

Beat that.

In UK, the water company will be fined.
What happens to Msian water companies when they do not deliver?

The can search the river bed for ancient boat treasures!

Selangor state government has the money.
Selangor state government in 2009 were given warning by Federal BN that Selangor water shortage will occur starting 2014
Selangor state government in 2009 were told by Federal BN to start building new Langat 2 water treatment plant.
Selangor state government insist no water shortage until 2019.


Since the warning and advice came from BN, Selangor PH state government must oppose building the Langat 2 water treatment plant. Who cares about Selangor people having water shortage starting 2014? PH only want to play politic. Most irresponsible government ever.


https://peraktoday.com.my › 2012 › 07 › water-crisis-khalid-ibrahim-is-taking-too-much-risk
Water Crisis: Khalid Ibrahim Is Taking Too Much Risk
Selangor Chief Minister, Khalid Ibrahim shared his though by saying that clean water supply could last until 2019. The statement is simply illogical and unjustified. The only reason why such statement was made is because he do not want the public to worry about anything. So, he simply sweep everything under the rug.

sebok air kat tempat jauh kenapa

Kek UK has indeed become 3rd world country.