Well, I've just paid my water bill up front for 2005/6.

All £ 278.78 of it.

Now we can relax and enjoy 52 weeks of pure fresh drinking water on demand, shower whenever we want, wash the car, not worry about the removal of our toilet waste nor the problem of dealing with the dirty water from our laundry and our dishes.

And the drains will take care of any excessive rainwater to prevent our home from becoming a sea of mud.

Having lived in Africa, where drinking cloudy, muddy water is the norm . . .

. . . my £ 5.36 per week in the UK is fantastic value.

I'm paying mine in 8 monthly installments to ease the initial load. It happened to arrive in the same month as BOTH cars needed retaxing... expensive!

Still, as you say, £5/week is very little to pay for water on tap (pun intended)

Thats ok. BUT. the question is, where does most of the money go. I can assure its not ALL in redevelopment or imrpovement to water supplies etc. Most of it goe to the shareholders and senior management in form of 'fat cat ' bonuses

So water is quite cheap then?!

Not to make you jealous but i live in a flat, its just been hult and the idiot builders have gone and concreted over, yes OVER the meters so when we moved in in September last year, they could not take a reading!

What happened, well the idiot builders are paying for the water until they sort them! Yipee!!!!!!!!!

As you probably guessed, my bath is nearly overflowing most nights! Lets hope this "problem" is unable to be fixed for at least a few months yet! At least until my other half gets a job, that would be great!!

We have been told that we will have to pay the "Service Charge" from the date of occupancy, not sure how much this is though? Anyone have any ideas? A friend of mine said it was literally a few quid. Cheers. Oh its a 1 bed flat y the way, only 2 of us living here, 2 baths, 2 showers daily, and washing machine on quite a lot too!

Originally posted by SCENIC


Thats ok, but the question is, where does most of the money go? I can assure it's not ALL in redevelopment or improvement to water supplies etc.

Most of it goes to the shareholders and senior management in form of 'fat cat ' bonuses


It wouldn't be much of a company if it had no shareholders or senior management.

When you say that 'most' of the money goes to shareholders and senior management, that is factually incorrect.

Had you risked investing £1000 in Yorkshire Water (or Kelda as the parent company is now called) at the beginning of 2004, you would have received a dividend of £55 for 2004.

Yes, your shares would now be worth £1250 but that increased value hasn't cost Yorkshire Water a penny.

(Shares can go down as well as up and you may lose ALL your investment)