If only. I do my own (and the neighbours'). A little sewage treatment plant at the end of the garden. All the filtered, treated waste water gets pumped out into a drainage ditch, then into Glynde Reach and the Ouse, to finish up in Newhaven. I've got a licence from the Environment Agency to...
I can show you a water bill for £25,657.01 if you want. Once South East Water finally agreed that it was their business to locate and find the (several) leaks, they pretty much wrote off most of it as a leakage allowance.
Incidentally, it costs £35.64 a year to insure the water supply pipe...
As a South East Water customer, can I ask a question?
Our water pipe has to cross three miles of field between the meter and the four houses it serves. We've just had a massive leak repaired and "normal" billing has resumed. In the first 64 days since the leak was fixed, the measured...