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Water Bill Has Risen By £20
Ok I live in Cornwall and my water supplier is South West Water, but this month they have increased my monthly payments by £20.
I have mention that 10 years ago I inquired about installing a water meter to save money as everyone was raving that having a water meter saves money.
But after the engineer came out he said a water meter couldn't be installed on my property as I share my water with my next door neighbour, and they call it a party line.
So South West Water agreed to put us on a special monthly payment of £42 a month based on house size and occupancy.
But this month they just took £62.58.
My question is should I contest this as such a large increase seems unfair when a water meter or anyway of regulation is impossible.
We don't even have a bath or garden, so water consumption is incredibly small, and doesn't warrant paying over 60 pounds a month for.
What should I do?
Answers
//Surely different counties regions should be equal? //
Not at all - that's the iniquity of the whole set-up. You are stuck with a single supplier for your area, you can't move to another & they can charge what they like (subject to regulation). It's not a competitive market & should never have been privatised.
barry1010,
Yes they deal with the sewage.
Well having said that I don't know in terms of repair or collapsed pipes as we've never had an issue.
So honestly I don't know, they have never had to come out or anything.
I don't even know where our sewage ends up. Theres no treatment plant near where I live.
We seem to have a number of these sewage treatment locations near us and there have been problems with them for a number of years. There are always lorries going through the area taking it to other places as ours can't cope with it. Councils answer to the problem is to build even more houses, hundreds of them before this has been sorted. Surely the infrastructure should have been put in place before granting permission for new builds when the one that is here can't cope as it is.