Water useage comparison

[jellybeard999]

I visit relatives in Seaham regularly, the water is so hard its ridiculous, they must have a different water source to you, which again goes to show how variable even by region this stuff is.

Must be. I'm in Teesdale/Weardale side of Co Durham.

 

[Buffman]

The further south you go the worse the water is.

Have you tasted the tap water in London and Glasgow? How do they compare?

Having lived in glasgow, and worked in london, yes.

The difference isnt that significant.

 

[Sasahara]

Don't confuse taste with quality. You'll tend to like what you have become accustomed to drink.

In general hard water is better for most people as contributes a supplementary contribution to total calcium and magnesium intake, but too much can have negative effects for some people. The effects are relatively small either way.

As for quality you'd have to see the lab reports on your local source to compare. Water being hard or not won't be the main concern for quality.

Surface water held in reservoirs and taken from river have a higher chance for contamination compared to groundwater sourced.

BTW Seaham water only barely classes as hard, damn northern pansy's. You need to come down to Kent to taste the really hard stuff!

 

[Haggisman]

We pay £27/month to severn trent, 2 adults 1 child, showers every day, bath a couple of times a week, jetwash the car every couple of weeks, also have an inflatable hot tub which gets refilled 3-4 times a year, plus we flush a couple of hundred litres down the drain every month making RODI for the fish tank... Your bill seems high compared to that?

 

[cheesyboy]

So glad I don't have a meter. I'm with Severn Trent, in a 4 bed, and pay (I think) about £27 a month - for 8 months a year.

This ^ was 2019. Just had the bill for2025 through. It's 33% up on last year coming in at £60.50 per month: well over double from 6 years ago!

 

[ZombieFan]

We're getting fleeced by Wessex Water. ~£60 per month. However, they were very reasonable when we had a water leak under our driveway earlier in the year. They tracked down and fixed the leak despite it being on our land. And then reversed all cost off our account and gave us £100 credit for potential historical overpayment.

 

[rodders]

Southern water, we use about 10m2 a month, on the bill we use less than the average similar user, but they just upped it to £68pm!

I use bath water to water the garden, have water butts as well. We don't go crazy on showers, if it's yellow let it mellow.....etc....

But they said they are going to invest it in the things that matters to us.....so I'm a happy customer.

 

[CooK1E]

We're getting fleeced by Wessex Water. ~£60 per month. However, they were very reasonable when we had a water leak under our driveway earlier in the year. They tracked down and fixed the leak despite it being on our land. And then reversed all cost off our account and gave us £100 credit for potential historical overpayment.

Can't add much to the figures here, as I live alone. But the experience with Wessex was really good - fixed the leak, upgraded the meter in the road and actually came and power washed the pavement / drive once they had finished