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Wasting 915 million litres of water is about global warning

• I am writing to take issue with Thames Water’s short-sighted attitude toward the environment (Borehole plan to keep Regent’s Park green, Letters, March 23).
You quote a spokesman saying that “the company lost 915 million litres of water every day but leaking pipes are a small problem compared to global warming”.
It is disappointing that an environmental services company would fail to recognise the connection between water resources and climate change, and also that they would use a bigger threat to excuse their lack of progress in supplying a decent service for customers and the environment.
We depend on our climate for rain to resupply our reservoirs. Three years of below-average rainfall have already brought us to drought conditions. In turn, this has rightly forced water companies to introduce hosepipe bans.
Our changing climate seems to be pushing us toward a climate that has shorter, more intense periods of rain, which quickly flow off the land or result in flooding. This leaves us with longer dry periods where we must depend on stored water.
If 915 million litres of water is being lost every day due to leaks, then it is contributing to the risks associated with climate change. It is not a small problem compared to climate change, it is a large problem exarcebated by climate change.
Further, the energy and materials required to extract and clean water from the environment, to ensure it is fit for domestic use all depend upon fossil fuel energy. If we are losing 915 million of litres of water every day, then it is fair to assume that we are cleaning 915 million litres of water too much. New pipes would reduce the need to clean this water, and therefore a reduction in the energy required to clean it.
Camden Friends of the Earth recently talked to the chairman of the Water Consumer Council for the South East. He told us that the water companies and the WCC aren’t geared up to promote water efficiency.
So let us do it for them. Readers can find excellent water efficiency advice, and get free water-saving devices at the Beat the Drought website: www.beatthedrought.com
Alternatively, readers are invited to join Camden Friends of the Earth: www.camdenfoe.blogspot.com
Graeme Maughan
Camden Friends of the Earth
Ground Floor Flat
8 Grove Road
Willesden Green
NW2


Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Camden New Journal, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@camdennewjournal.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Tuesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for reasons of space.
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