Scott De Buitléir writes:
Chadwicks Building Providers have come up with this infographic (above) on the Irish relationship with water, including some pretty interesting stats, including:
• Over 80% of us are wrong when guessing how much water we use;
• The typical Irish person’s water footprint is over 3600 litres per day;
• It currently costs the state approximately €1.2 billion per annum to run the public water system.
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No water tax. Abolish water-fees and the privatization of a human right. End regressive taxation. Labour and the Blueshirts can go to hell, as can Denis O’Brien.
+845,000 (households which haven’t registered plus, on top, those households which have “registered” with the surnames “Mouse” and “Duck”)
thing is an utter joke at this stage….within 24 hours I’ve seen 3 different numbers being held up by these lying gobshites like its something to be proud of….900,000, 1,000,000 and now 1,100,000 at this rate it’ll be 3,000,000 in no time (oops but there aren’t that many households in Ireland Elizabeth but shure keep bashing away you tool) fake fake fake, nobody challenging these numbers in the media says it all
apart from fake processing of returned envelopes they are now literally making up telephone numbers in an effort to somehow trick people into engaging with them
by my own basic straw poll at work nobody not one person has changed their attitude to this since the bs came out in the wash first
youse can wait until I’m gone and try access whatever is left of my estate thru the courts (good luck with that hahaha) until you finally man up and call it what it is – A TAX
It’s not an infographic. http://understandinggraphics.com/visualizations/infoposters-are-not-infographics/
Vector hell.
The typical Irish person uses 3600 litres per day. Wow that’s 3.6 tonnes a day.
I wonder if they are counting the rain that falls on my head, or is that an extra?
Em, 150? Or is that what the 3m people who marched said?
It says 97% of that is indirect usage, they are not saying you drink, flush and wash yourself with 3600 litres per day (direct usage). They are saying that is about a 108 litres a day.
Kinda like –
Total Direct Requirements
Direct Usage 108L
Total Stuff we made up
Overhead Usage 3892 L
Yeah – I know how this stuff works – Thanks
doesn’t say how much is wasted by poor and leaky infrastructure every year – oh no, it’s all our fault as usual.
Leaks which need fixing & the fixing costs money
Creating additional leaks is costing us €540M
And fixing infrastructure is usually paid for progressively – not a poll tax that costs the whether you’re completely broke or a billionaire.
I do all those things except take shorter showers and i will be damned if i am giving up on my shower. I think 3600 litres is an overestimation the seem to be including the entire water used to make a product as the water usage for one person. Can we get the hard facts and see where these figures come from?
“Including the entire water used to make a product as the water usage for one person”
Yep, in the same way big corporations point blame at consumers for not recycling, when all the recycling should be down at the start of production and right up to sale, but,, it’s our fault.
Deal with it Drogg
3600 litres is the entire footprint.
To produce a steak it apparently takes over 4,000 litres
Over 5 litres of water is used to produce the bottle for a bottle of water
Yep, thought it’d be that.
So the problem is big corporations are not coming up with more efficient ways to produce their goods.
Chadwicks can double the length of that wall paper
I’m still not paying IW a pingin
“If you have a water meter, read it before and after a two hour period when no water is being used.”
Would you ask my fanny!
Hypothetically, how often are we supposed to do this Mr Chadwick? And if the leak is between house and meter will we have to pay for repairs even if the leak is beneath the public path?
So… I guess Chadwicks are selling rainwater harvesting tanks…??
Think you hit a Chadwicks nail on the head there..
Have Chadwicks commenced a scheme to collect and harvest rain
water off their own roofs and recycle it into their own water usage
Have all Government Buildings under a the auspices of the Office
of Public Works intoduced a water harvesting scheme, have the Dept
of the Environment one in operation at the Custom House….?
or at the Dail or indeed tha Aras….yet the same same political wafflers
are paying out a 100 Euro water conservation grant to those who register that
will cost as much again to administer….the luanitics are fully in charge.
What’s to be done with them……..?
No, no, no… you do what the govt says, not as they do.
What’s never mentioned is that Ireland is absolutely drenched with the stuff.
No, not rain. But we keep hearing how 40% of all we produce is lost in leaks. Meaning Ireland produces 40% more than what we actually need. So if we fix the infrastructure – we’re sitting pretty and can probably export the stuff in years to come.
So what’s needed is a capital project – and in this country we’ve always funded those through progressive taxation and not a flat levy that takes no account of income or ability to pay.
If water continued to be paid through general taxation, there would be no imperative for conservation.
So Chadwicks are on the payroll as well now?
Just how many untold millions has Phil Hogan made available to all these water schills?
By the way, has anyone ever seen John Tierney and Ivor Callely in the same place? I’m convinced these are one and the same person.
Navy showers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAr1hdExL-w