Water use could fall by 20% as we account for every drop
Friday 24th September 2010, 2:57PM BST.
One plan to meet increasing demand for water is to raise the height of the dam at Val de la Mare
WATER consumption could drop by up to a fifth if meters are installed in every home in Jersey.
Results from the first part of a five-year £6m project to extend metering suggest that water use drops by up to 20 per cent when people know that they are paying for every drop.
Jersey Water has already installed 2,000 of the planned 17,500 new meters that will go into homes by 2015, mainly in the north of the Island.
Jersey Water managing director and engineer Howard Snowden said that the more consumption could be reduced, the longer expensive projects like the extension of the Val de la Mare reservoir could be delayed.
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I don’t doubt that water usage will drop when we are all on meters, I bet the price we pay doesn’t drop though. Jersey Water are engaging in a shameful money making exercise under the banner of environmental sustainability. Long term their profits will increase which is the point of the switch to meters, I don’t object to the user pays principle, I just don’t like being shafted during the process.
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Well done Jersey Water. This must be better than the extended use of the desalination plant.
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Well if that were true ..there would be no need to raise the Val de La Mare dam….would there..?
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Just had a meter installed, and must admit definitely think more water usage.
Mulvie: (as a former accoutnant), I have worked out the numbers, and based off the forecast usage figures, my full year payment under the metered system is abtu the same, if not marginally less than the flat rate I paid. However this is based on forecast usage, so will watch this space. I also thought the same as you, but it is possibly not as bad as it may seem.
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“Water use drops by 20% if meters are installed in households”……………..hhhhmmmmmmmm………….are folk really that stupid to forget that it was not too long ago that “BIN THE BOTTLE AND DRINK TAP” was being pushed as the way to go!!!!! It has nothing to do with saving water and everything to do with profit!!!!! Stop believing the tripe and wake up and smell the coffee…………made with evian(or even better rain from your drain pipe) of course.
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They over populate our little island and then charge us to drink our own water.
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Mark 2
When was the last extended use of the desalination plant?
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What will the population grow by during this time? Obviously the only way to prevent more usage is to stabilise the population, so really this is just a money spinner.
If everyone cuts their water use by 20% it only takes one birth per 4 people to bring water use back to the original level. Same goes for electricity, car emissions, oil etc.
Do Jersey Water sell chocolate fireguards?
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If the States did not let so many non Jersey people in to this island there would be more water to go around this island is over populated when is it going to stop ? Soon we wont have room to move.
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