Dumbo - John Prescott

STEED · 06-06-06, 04:36 PM

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Housing plans 'risk water shortage'
Press Association
Tuesday June 6, 2006 10:08 AM
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM), led by John Prescott, has been criticised for failing to consider water shortage warnings when planning thousands of new countryside homes.
A powerful all-party House of Lords Science and Technology Committee said the Government had "failed to consider the water management implications of their house building plans at an early enough stage". They added in their Water Management report: "Along with the Environment Agency, they must ensure that the water companies' plans factor in what is bound to be a significant increase in demand."
Chairman Lord Selborne told a Westminster news conference there was "quite a muddle in what was then the ODPM and Defra, on the projections as to what the increased water demand would be, for example, in the Thames Gateway."
On former environment minister Elliot Morley, he said: "When he gave evidence to us, he misinformed himself as to what the consequences were for the increased water consumption.
"He thought it would be 0.1%, well it simply wasn't. As we teased the figures out it was 0.1% over a previous prediction. No wonder the water companies and the public don't have a lot of confidence in planning if some basic errors like this can happen.
Lord Selborne said the planning process took too long, an inevitable consequence of the consultation process, adding: "There were many meetings, but we didn't feel that the water companies themselves were sufficiently consulted. We felt that either they had failed to take the opportunity themselves or that the ODPM had failed sufficiently to take account of their own views. It would have been throughout his (John Prescott's) succession.
"Responsibility for water was at one time under the DETR (Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions) and then under ODPM, shared with Defra. But ODPM would have been John Prescott."
Liberal Democrat Baroness Sharp of Guildford added that the ODPM had "driven" the sustainable communities programme and the criticism was one of "inadequate consultation between departments over their plans".
The report also demands a major cutback in the "unacceptably high" level of leaks from water company pipes, alongside a more coherent and better-funded promotion of sensible water use among domestic and business consumers. The Government is urged to make it easier for water companies to have universal metering of customers, while providing extra help through the benefits system for people struggling to pay their bills.
The report reveals a "very high level" of unpaid water bills and says those people who can afford to pay but refuse to do so, should be partially disconnected from the water supply. At the root of the problem is the Government's failure to ensure properly integrated water management and the peers call for new regional boards, with greater consumer and environmental representation, to work out the best balance of measures for each part of the country.
© Copyright Press Association Ltd 2006, All Rights Reserved.

Well that's my water bill gone up 100% I better start investing in water and fast.

Oberon · 06-06-06, 04:58 PM

Our government is good at forward thinking isn't it?

Oh well, guess we'll just have to resort to old methods...I know there's an old pump down near the town steps, dunno if it works though...failing that, I could always use an old Egyptian technique...though I dunno which would be worse, being of dehydration or drinking from an English river...

STEED · 06-06-06, 05:16 PM

That’s water poaching carrying a minim 25 years in prison, coming soon to the south of England.

August · 06-06-06, 11:47 PM

It's amazing that England of all places has a water shortage.

lesrae · 06-07-06, 05:35 AM

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Originally Posted by August

It's amazing that England of all places has a water shortage.

It's the wrong type of rain apparently, it doesn't soak into the water table properly - just runs off into the sea.

STEED · 06-07-06, 05:59 AM

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Originally Posted by August

It's amazing that England of all places has a water shortage.

Well said.

STEED · 06-07-06, 06:08 AM

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Originally Posted by lesrae

It's the wrong type of rain apparently, it doesn't soak into the water table properly - just runs off into the sea.

Not that old excuse please.

It's always the wrong kind of leaves,ice,wind,sunlight and now water. It's all rubbish it's time to give these water company's six of the best. They make big profits and only repair broken pipes when they feel like it, and of course blame the consumer for their problems. And why because they are to busy smoking cigar's and counting all that money, profit is power.

jumpy · 06-07-06, 06:18 AM

LMAO
I saw this on the news yesterday... fcuking country is going to the dogs and no mistakes.
If it weren't for the fact it's true I'd be lauging my socks off and using a hosepipe to wash my car with (I have not washed my motor in the 2 years since I bought it).

Makes me ashamed to live here some days. It really does.

STEED · 06-07-06, 06:45 AM

It’s time for the people’s revolution.

Oberon · 06-07-06, 06:49 AM

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Originally Posted by STEED

It’s time for the people’s revolution.

Naah, you've got to wait another four-five months!

Konovalov · 06-07-06, 07:16 AM

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Originally Posted by jumpy

Makes me ashamed to live here some days. It really does.

Cheer up. If England win the World Cup will that make you feel better?

jumpy · 06-07-06, 08:22 AM

^^
Hehe, I appreciate the sentiment, but I'm not all that interested in football...

In the grand scheme of things I'd rather have a decent fair level of taxes and governmental spending and well thought out legislature combined with a will from all politicians and governement departments and public sector businesses to not be the selfserving syncophantic bunch of toadying freeloaders that the UK has at the moment.

Hold on a minute, that is about as likely as England winning the world cup!

STEED · 06-07-06, 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Oberon

Naah, you've got to wait another four-five months!

Why the wait?

STEED · 06-07-06, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by jumpy

^^
Hehe, I appreciate the sentiment, but I'm not all that interested in football...

In the grand scheme of things I'd rather have a decent fair level of taxes and governmental spending and well thought out legislature combined with a will from all politicians and governement departments and public sector businesses to not be the selfserving syncophantic bunch of toadying freeloaders that the UK has at the moment.

Hold on a minute, that is about as likely as England winning the world cup!

jumpy, we are few in number. Here, here I agree with what you said.

Oberon · 06-07-06, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by STEED

Why the wait?

Don't you know? Every good revolution has to take place in October, it's a law brought in during 1917.

06-06-06, 05:16 PM	#3
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	That’s water poaching carrying a minim 25 years in prison, coming soon to the south of England. __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

06-06-06, 11:47 PM	#4
August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,197 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	It's amazing that England of all places has a water shortage. __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.

06-07-06, 06:18 AM	#8
jumpy Admiral Join Date: May 2003 Location: Midlands, UK Posts: 2,139 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	LMAO I saw this on the news yesterday... fcuking country is going to the dogs and no mistakes. If it weren't for the fact it's true I'd be lauging my socks off and using a hosepipe to wash my car with (I have not washed my motor in the 2 years since I bought it). Makes me ashamed to live here some days. It really does. __________________ when you’ve been so long in the desert, any water, no matter how brackish, looks like life

06-07-06, 06:45 AM	#9
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	It’s time for the people’s revolution. __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

06-07-06, 08:22 AM	#12
jumpy Admiral Join Date: May 2003 Location: Midlands, UK Posts: 2,139 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	^^ Hehe, I appreciate the sentiment, but I'm not all that interested in football... In the grand scheme of things I'd rather have a decent fair level of taxes and governmental spending and well thought out legislature combined with a will from all politicians and governement departments and public sector businesses to not be the selfserving syncophantic bunch of toadying freeloaders that the UK has at the moment. Hold on a minute, that is about as likely as England winning the world cup! __________________ when you’ve been so long in the desert, any water, no matter how brackish, looks like life

06-06-06, 04:58 PM	#2
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	Our government is good at forward thinking isn't it? Oh well, guess we'll just have to resort to old methods...I know there's an old pump down near the town steps, dunno if it works though...failing that, I could always use an old Egyptian technique...though I dunno which would be worse, being of dehydration or drinking from an English river...