Southern Water are crap

almoststew1990

almoststew1990

almoststew1990

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Just a bit of a rant really, southern Water had fundamental issues with their south Hampshire treatment plant (it could not keep up with demand because it's capacity had been reduced due to all the rain we had) just before Christmas which meant 24,000 households (so getting towards 100,000 people!) Had zero water for 4 days I think it was.

Now 7 weeks later once again SW are unable to supply water to an unknown number of house holds in South Hampshire due to the infrastructure that they're responsible for maintaining failing. We've been told via twitter and text this afternoon that we'll be without any water "into the weekend".

Luckily my wife and I can both work from home so we've buggered off to my Dad's place in the first world County of Dorset where they have running water but I would imagine most can't do this.

Does this happen anywhere else or are SW just excessively crap?
 
Blimey, twice in less than two months, not good!

Had some empty coke bottles to fill with water last time as a backup that we thankfully didn't need last time, but don't think we have any empties right now.
 
jaybee said:
Literally never heard of extended periods of no water. I think we are south east water.
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We had it in my town last year or a year before*, I was lucky as the town is more or less on two levels and those "lower down" were kept supplied by one mains line, whilst the people higher up were without due to what from memory was a failed valve/set of valves on another mains line
IIRC it took several days (maybe a week for some) to start to get service back, and that included to places like most of the town's restaurants, nursing homes and supermarkets. From memory the likes of the nursing homes were being supplied by bowsers, whilst the council and waterboard were delivering bottled water/setting up collection points for it.

I think I'm Southern Water as well.


*It might even have been further back than that, after all what is time...;)
 
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Everything and every company is a pile of crap. Welcome to late stage capatilism.
 
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I live not far from you and lose water for an extended period at least twice a year since I moved to the area 10 years ago. Southern Water are terrible. The infrastructure clearly cannot handle the demand and there is little evidence of them investing sufficiently to upgrade or renew the weak points.
 
I have lived in a number of places in Hampshire. Each time SW only dealt with the treatment of waste water from my property but supply was done by Portsmouth water. I always thought that most peeps in South Hampshire would be on the same jig.
 
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