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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.
Household water use in England and Wales stood at about 145 litres/capita/day in 2008/09. [10] Total water supply for domestic and commercial customers in England and Wales was 14.5 million cubic metres per day in 2009. [11]
The water companies were set a target of saving 370 million litres of water per day from wastage and to reduce the length of time customers were left without supply. [ 5 ] It is believed that AMP7 (2020–25) will target environmental improvements, particularly with regards quality of water bodies.
Groundwater contributes 30 per cent of public supply water in England. In Wales and Scotland groundwater provides about five per cent of public supply. [12] The majority of the UK's abstraction of surface water is from reservoirs, where rainwater is transported via rivers and streams and contained in an artificial or natural lake until it is ...
The velodrome of the London Olympic Park is designed to harvest rainwater. In recent years, rainwater harvesting has become more common due to increasing water prices. While rainwater harvesting has been employed in high-profile facilities like the velodrome of the London Olympic Park, the UK's ongoing revival has lagged behind other countries such as Germany (the present world leader in ...
Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water is a not-for-profit company which supplies drinking water and wastewater services to most of Wales and parts of western England that border Wales. In total, it serves around 1.4 million households and businesses and over three million people - and supplies nearly 830 million litres (180 million imperial gallons) of drinking water per day.
Drivers have been hit by the average cost of a litre of petrol reaching a record of nearly £1.60. Figures from data firm Experian Catalist show UK forecourts sold the fuel at an average price of ...
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]