Poor cut off from water
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What a complete and utter balls up! This is just staggering that this has been allowed to happen.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16037798
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16037798
chris watton said:
Fittster said:
A thread about poor people suffering on PH?
Good luck with that one.
Good luck with that one.
But the climate change threads (political) relate to the poorest being shafted the most - and they're some of the most popular threads!
Fittster said:
chris watton said:
Fittster said:
A thread about poor people suffering on PH?
Good luck with that one.
Good luck with that one.
But the climate change threads (political) relate to the poorest being shafted the most - and they're some of the most popular threads!
Not everyone on PH are super rich tories.......
chris watton said:
Fittster said:
chris watton said:
Fittster said:
A thread about poor people suffering on PH?
Good luck with that one.
Good luck with that one.
But the climate change threads (political) relate to the poorest being shafted the most - and they're some of the most popular threads!
Not everyone on PH are super rich tories.......
Vimto156 said:
What a complete and utter balls up! This is just staggering that this has been allowed to happen.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16037798
There are losers in a Market economy. I suspect the fines from the bribery cases will reduce the bills a little in the long term.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16037798
Short term, it's interesting that the women moan about how awful it is, and the bloke in the story gets on with a portaloo for $14/month
Fittster said:
chris watton said:
Fittster said:
A thread about poor people suffering on PH?
Good luck with that one.
Good luck with that one.
But the climate change threads (political) relate to the poorest being shafted the most - and they're some of the most popular threads!
randlemarcus said:
There are losers in a Market economy......
I would stress the point that certain things, home sanitation, electricity and heating, should be sacred and protected from the dangers of a market economy. How would you feel if your utilities were cut off for similar reasons, would you keep quiet and get by on calor gas canisters, bottled water, portaloo or petrol generators? Not for long I reckon. anonymous said:
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No mains drainage, no gas for me. Quiet, no probably not. Get by? Yup, I'd look for a solution and implement it. It's not as if they don't have utilities, it's just that they have been sold up the Swanee by their public servants, and are now paying above the rates they used to. Ho, and indeed, hum.
randlemarcus said:
No mains drainage, no gas for me.
Speaking from experience of the same from one of our old family homes out in the sticks, oh that was the life ! Open fire, solid fuel boiler heating, septic tank down the field. We had free fuel to hand, rubbish and brash for example and a timber yard down the road with an abundance of timber waste. Only problem was it wasn't wise to play in that field in wet and warm weather, smelly!What a luxury but thinking of people in a less well off built-up urban area who would have the space and money to install such things if they had to resort to it? Try installing a pot belly stove in a high rise flat!
is this what we want for society? At least set up all this new housing with that potential situation in mind if that's the road we're going down.
$150 a month for sewerage is scandalous. Everything is in the hands of private companies though and the market economy sometimes sucks. The system in Britain where you can buy utilities from whoever you want is much better, a much more genuine open market. Here you buy utilities from private companies but they are often monopolies. I have a choice of one gas supplier and one electricity supplier. We pay $45 a month for sewerage which is not unreasonable but every home in town pays the same. So we (2 adults) pay the same as a family of 6 as does a little old lady on her own. Lazy monopolies rarely provide good value or service whether they be private or public.
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