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Per quarter.
We cut down after our last bill which was for 21m3, to 16m3.
Only two of us in the house. I used to shower every day but now only every other day, unless I’ve been on a sweaty ride, plus cut down on shower length AND catch the cold water in a bucket & flush the loo with it.
Just got me wondering how much other people get through.
No idea. It's not metered so I wouldn't know where to start. 16 cubic metres of water every three months doesn't sound like very much though.
Three in the house - 73m3 between start of March and end of August according to the bill that has just arrived. so a few days under 6 months equals ~12m3 a month. That is a reduction of 25% on previous bills, mainly as adult children are now here less
Another Scottish Water customer here with not a clue as to how much we use.
I guess you're not metered matt?
I was thinking everyone must be on a meter but probably not.
Not up here - and everyone is supplied by one Government owned company.
Never been on a meter either and also in Scotland so wouldn't have a clue. My Mam's not metered either in North Yorkshire.
I guess you’re not metered matt?
no charges in scotland, the argument being water is a right. I both approve but also dissaprove, we need to reduce usage in some way and metering is pretty much the best solution. Rainwater and greywater harvesting are things we should be doing.
Any personal use by me would be dwarfed by the gazillion gallons the farmers around me put on their crops. It's been quiet an eye opener moving to live in the middle of big arable farms from a moorland area. Every burn seems to have a mahoosive water pump sucking it dry too to water the tatties and brassicas.
I'd say we're fairly frugal with water use, with the exception of my son, it takes for ever to get him to have a shower, but once he's in its a nightmare getting him out 🤣
No meter for us in Cumbria. On a cl in the caravan three of us get through just under 40 litres per day including showers
Not metered here Chez Morecash, and hoping to remains so while kids are at home.
Not metered in Cambridge - can have one fitted for free if I asked, but not that bothered about it.
Probably less than most, in the Borders so not metered but I've built myself a rainwater toilet flush anyway, just to see if it works, which it does.
Tops up automatically from the mains if it doesn't rain.
Quite easy for me as I have a gutter one floor higher than my bathroom and enough space for a tank in the ceiling above the toilet, all done by gravity.
I was thinking everyone must be on a meter but probably not.
I thought metering was a minority. I've never had one.
We went on a meter as it halved our bill. Yorkshire water wanted over £700 from us, on a meter it's about £28 per month.
Was on a meter but now Scotland so no idea.
No baths just showers etc.
Ok, I'll put it a different way.
What's your water rates per quarter?
I think I've always had a meter, which you'd think would be a bastid when I installed a car jetwash at the petrol station I had years ago, but it wasn't that much different. Certainly not eye watering.
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I used to work in water distribution modelling a long time ago. The standard demand rate was set at 140L per person per day.
On average that'd be: 140L * 2.25 people per house * 90 days = 28350 L or 28.35 m^3 / quarter / house
Between 7m3 and 20m3 per quarter since junior left home, the 7 is no doubt when we're away walking or cycle touring and the 20 alerted me to a leaking toilet syphon. If you want to reduce your energy consumption reduce your water consumption, water companies have huge electricty bills for pumping.
No idea, not metered, but the two of us are filthy buggers so probably not much.
What’s your water rates per quarter?
I think we pay about £40/month IIRC (and for only 10 months for some random reason).
11.5 cubic metres a quarter and we both shower daily.
. If you want to reduce your energy consumption reduce your water consumption, water companies have huge electricty bills for pumping.
I agree but even if it didn't I think it's a good idea to be responsible with any resources.
Had a meter installed for free (S Yorkshire) and the bill halved.
11.5 cubic metres a quarter and we both shower daily.
Shower every other day & you’ll just about halve that.
Not metered at home but we’re away in the van and 100 litres has just lasted us 5 days, including showering.
It’s amazing how little you actually need when it’s not unlimited.
From Scotroutes' link it would appear we pay £93.03 per quarter, that's about £37.21 per month on a 10 month council tax scheme.
no charges in scotland, the argument being water is a right. I both approve but also dissaprove, we need to reduce usage in some way and metering is pretty much the best solution. Rainwater and greywater harvesting are things we should be doing.
Also agree.
If you want to reduce your energy consumption reduce your water consumption, water companies have huge electricty bills for pumping.
That too. Though they could probably claw a decent amount back by using the methane from sewage for generation (more than they do).
I live alone and use 19m3 per quarter 😮 I might have a leak 🤣
Or a highly watered veg patch?
How are you calculating waste water disposal here, is that additional?
Fill yer bucket boots
... which says that non-metered water and waste water rates are based on council tax bands. So for me that's £37/quarter or £12/month for water supply. £26.60/month for water and waste combined.
You can keep your meters, I'm going for a bath. 👋 from band A
Or a highly watered veg patch?
No veg. But I do have a mermaid. Perhaps it's time to get rid 🧜♀️ 😓
No idea?, never had the need to know so I guess this is an English water privatisation thing?.
At a guess I’d say a few litres a day.
According to our water bill, enough for a family of 6 - and there's three of us on the house. My missis is a bloody washing machine addict, it's rediculous how small the loads are more than once per day.
Eg. This morning I'd forgotten to put yesterdays work shirt on the basket, so it was put in this morning after the AM wash was already on. This evening it was already waiting for me to put away. I reckon this and her gym kit must have been a load. There's no effing way I'm ever buying a tumble dryer.
Plus baths for her and the daughter.
Pisses me right off. £80 per month (DD, includes drainage) on a meter.
Aaaaand breathe.
£26.60/month for water and waste combined.
But our recent one works out at £20.66 a month, metered, including waste.
Might have a bath tonight. 😜
@tthew - just think of the energy bill for that amount of washing. I'd suggest putting a lock on the detergent drawer
Maybe 3 loads of washing a week for us. No bath, just an electric shower about 12 times a week between the three if us. The car and garden get washed/watered when it rains. Wash up twice a day.
Not seeing us save a lot of water without rainwater/waste water collection for the toilet
66m3 per year, 3 of us in the house. £22 a month waste and water, with Yorkshire Water. I don’t water the garden other than from the water butt, and I try not to wash bikes with a hose, other than that it doesn’t seem like any hardship. Probably do 3 big loads of washing a week, showers most days. Never wash the car! Seems to me that you’d have to put some effort into using tons of water for it to be cheaper off a meter in England.
No idea how much as I just pay the relatively cheap DD, compared to other bills, each month. Mrs F and I shower every day and the kids get a shower or bath when they start to smell funky 😀
Don’t wash the car ever and the bike gets cleaned with two washing up bowls of water when needed.
Think I need to go and read the meter! UU have just sent me a 6 monthly bill claiming 26m3
Its just me these days I only have a shower, 1 load of washing every 1 1/2 weeks, pretty frugal with all resources. I've just checked back and they have estimated every bill I can find back to 2017 so what was the point of me having a meter?
My bill is 31p a month less than Hannah with 3 in her house! Yorkshire water might be cheaper than UU mind
Re: sewerage, it used to be considered as a basic sanitary requirement so you could get your water cut off for not paying the bill but they couldn't cut off your sewerage. Something to do with public health, spreading diseases etc.
£19 a month for the two of us, I think.
just think of the energy bill for that amount of washing.
I try not to! Although when there have been similar questions about energy bills on here we actually don't have massive usage compared to some.
Re: sewerage, it used to be considered as a basic sanitary requirement so you could get your water cut off for not paying the bill but they couldn’t cut off your sewerage.
Also, there's no valves for individual properties, so it'd be quite difficult!
Just looked back to our last bill in April this year. 123m^3 in 195 days, that's 630l a day. For two of us... how the **** are we getting through that much?
(Actually, don't bother answering that in the singletrack way. I already know my other half is not big on frugality generally; I wince at the quantities of bog roll, kitchen roll, leccy, gas, petrol, whatever that she gets through. Maybe this winter will see a bit of realisation kicking in on some of those fronts)
Re: sewerage, it used to be considered as a basic sanitary requirement so you could get your water cut off for not paying the bill but they couldn’t cut off your sewerage.
I recall being shown a water flow meter in college or work training and being shown a special feature.
Although you can be technically "cut off" by law they can't totally cut you off so instead the flow is restricted. The rationale being that you still have a right to clean water for drinking and sewage. (which is still mind boggling to me, all that energy expended in cleaning water to just fling it straight down the toilet).
Current place isn't metered and it's included in the rent so no idea currently but I'm not using any more than I did at the last place which was metered. Daily shower, one load of dishes by hand every day and the washing machine is on 2-3 times a week. The water company actually sent out an engineer twice to check my old meter was working as it registered such low usage but I'm just naturally good at saving water. It really pissed my uncle off at the time too as he would use every trick he knew to get his bill down (cold shower water for the toilet, water butt for the garden etc) and he could never get his bill as low as mine despite me doing very little to save water!
I've used 19 cubic metres in the last 6 months.
Yet I pay about £250 a year, half of that is standing charges.
I pay over £100 for rainwater removal and I live on the 7th floor of a 13 storey housing association flat, so basically I am being charged 13 times as much as I should be given that rain only actually falls on the top floor. (though I occasionally get leaks from above owing to the dodgy plumbing.)
If you live in a small property, you hardly pay for the water you use, most of the cost is built up through standing charges, making sure that people like me subsidise those with large gardens and swimming pools etc.
We're about £45 a month, might be more currently ? Don't check use. 4 adults and me who washes his car(s) weekly, and a bit on the garden - waterbut for green house.
Mainly showers, but daughter/son spend an age in there - going to have to change as it's a 10 KWh electric shower !!
That said it's based on last two years with additional WFH, so more loo visits (and loo roll). Although my botty prefers home loo roll than the horrible stuff at work. Expecting bills to be dropping now, daughter at Uni (local) son at work 5 days, me/missus work 3 days.
Southwest water, £73/month non metered and they still pump shit into the rivers & sea every time it rains.
Same as Jambo, but a quick calculation makes me think that we're using about 25m3 per quarter for the 4 of us. So we might be better on a meter as that would be around £90 a quarter...?
which is still mind boggling to me, all that energy expended in cleaning water to just fling it straight down the toilet
At a s****y pad nr Ascot, the client paid an extra of £300k to have a underground tank installed so that he could have natural spring water delivered and piped round the house including the cisterns for the two weeks of the year he & his family were to be in residence.
