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The Chingford South works abstracts water from the surface waters of the William Girling and King George V reservoirs at up to 40 million litre per day (Ml/d) available throughout the year, and up to 18 Ml/d from the North London Abstraction and Recharge scheme boreholes for up to six months of the year. [1]
It is comparable to other bottled cheap beverages (soda, beer, ...). Retail prices vary widely between countries, brands, bottle sizes (0.33 liter to 20 liters) and place of sale (supermarket, fair, restaurant etc.). They range from US$0.05 to US$6 per liter, equivalent to US$50 to US$6,000 per cubic meter.
As of 2022, Thames Water extracts, treats and supplies 2.5 billion litres (550 million imperial gallons) of drinking water per day using 97 water treatment works, 308 clean water pumping stations and 31,100 km (19,300 mi) of managed water mains to 10.2 million customers (4 million properties) across London and the Thames Valley. [64]
Bill rises for all companies until 2030 have already been announced by the regulator Ofwat, with Thames Water bills rising from an average £435.56 to £534.79 – a 22.8 per cent increase.
The plant was planned to supply 150 million litres of water a day which caters for 400,000 households or 900,000 people in the high-demand seasons when it is most-run. Its supply is pumped to north-east London in an 8-mile (13 km) pipe which can hold 14 million litres of water, of 1.2 metre diameter. [ 8 ]
Thames Water saw a 40% increase in pollution incidents in the first half as its debts continued to spiral. The company reported 359 so-called category one to three pollution incidents in the six ...
Thames is the UK's biggest water company and one in four people in the UK rely on the firm for their supply. The ailing water firm is saddled with debts which, it admitted, will swell to nearly £ ...
A 2007 study showed that in 20 cities the average duration of supply was only 4.3 hours per day. The longest duration of supply was 12 hours per day in Chandigarh, and the lowest was 0.3 hours per day in Rajkot. [9] In 2015, 88% of the total population had access to at least basic water, [a] or 96% in urban areas and 85% in rural areas. That is ...