German water is most expensive on the planet

British gardeners infuriated by hosepipe bans despite seemingly year-round rain can take some comfort, after a new survey revealed the situation is worse in Germany.

Germans pay more for their water than anybody else on the planet according to the study. At £1.50 per 1000 litres, prices are four times as much as in America, and twice as much as in parched Australia. Britons on average pay £1.18 for the same amount, a little less than the Belgians.

As the Berlin summer was interrupted by yet more showers on Monday, German water users reacted to the news with grumbles familiar the length and breadth of the UK.

“We have masses of water,” wrote one reader to Die Welt newspaper. “It’s just that the water companies let everything leak into the rivers. Germans are being ripped off because our politicians are useless. Everything has been run wrong for 20 years.” The survey was produced by energy consultants NUS, which monitors electricity, gas, oil and water prices every quarter.

Senior energy analyst at NUS, Bruce Blazey, said that British customers still have a lot to complain about.

“In the UK it seems to be constantly raining and yet the reservoirs seem to dry out so quickly,” he said. “You have towns flooded the whole time and yet hosepipe bans are in force.

“There’s just not enough being spent on infrastructure, and the pipelines are just really bad. Thames Water is dreadful. They blame it on the wartime damage – that nothing’s been really properly repaired since the 1940s.”

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Source: The Telegraph

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Water restrictions remain in place in South Florida

SOUTH FLORIDA- Most of South Florida remains under twice-a-week watering restrictions, with plans this fall to make that a year-round requirement. While the region averaged 8.63 inches of rain in July, about 2 inches above normal, South Florida water managers say that still wasn’t enough to ease watering restrictions.

The July rainfall helped boost drought-strained Lake Okeechobee, the region’s backup water supply, by about a foot. However, at 10.74 feet above sea level on Monday, the lake still was about 3 feet below normal. Local well fields and the Everglades water conservation areas that supplement them have recovered from drought conditions, but the district contends that the water shortage remains.

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Source: Sun-Sentinel.com

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