The scandalous waste inherent in Scotland's water industry is revealed ...
"SCOTTISH Water should be fined over the "profligate" waste of one billion litres of treated water a day, angry MSPs demanded last night. The state-owned firm has already spent more than £2bn of taxpayers' cash replacing pipes, but every 24 hours, water treated at a cost of £190,000 continues to leak into the ground. Two years ago Scottish Water promised a "historic drive" to crack down on the waste, but it has missed the target set by the industry watchdog by a staggering 44 million litres daily – enough to fill 17 Olympic-sized swimming pools."
Given that billions of people around the world don't have ready access to running treated tap water, with milions of people dying every year because of untreated water, we should be ashamed at the waste of a valuable resource that our wealthy society presides over. And what have our politicians done about it over the last ten years? Nothing apparently.
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