Was wondering how many

Gallons of water Scottish Water actually sells per year. Only figure I could find was 1.34Gl/day. I am hoping that water services in Scotland will not see any prices rises like has been seen in gass andcelectricity. Since it is a nationalised utility I am expecting production costs to be fairly restricted and do not see why their should be any big price jump.
Seems very odd to me that renewable energy has to have huge price rises when none of the costs associated with restrictions in gas supply have any influence.
Sitting here with extra layers on! Heating not turned on yet!

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Originally Posted by scottg

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Did you think it was less scottg?

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Originally Posted by BCram

Gallons of water Scottish Water actually sells per year. Only figure I could find was 1.34Gl/day. I am hoping that water services in Scotland will not see any prices rises like has been seen in gass andcelectricity. Since it is a nationalised utility I am expecting production costs to be fairly restricted and do not see why their should be any big price jump.
Seems very odd to me that renewable energy has to have huge price rises when none of the costs associated with restrictions in gas supply have any influence.
Sitting here with extra layers on! Heating not turned on yet!

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Not sure on this exciting topic BCram but I do know United Utilities deliver 1.8 billion litres a day to households in the north west of England.

Would be interesting to find the numbers around the country, something to do when Nelms moves us out of Dens Park and makes us homeless while we all pontificate on this.

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Not sure on this exciting topic BCram but I do know United Utilities deliver 1.8 billion litres a day to households in the north west of England.

Would be interesting to find the numbers around the country, something to do when Nelms moves us out of Dens Park and makes us homeless while we all pontificate on this.

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I know it is exciting! I would like to know how much water Scottish Water delivers. Was hoping to understand how, what I think is a publicly owned utility company, works. Do they sell less water when it is wet. Is summer usage very different from winter usage?
1.8bn litres a day for NW England sounds a much more sensible figure. If you convert 1.34gl into litres you get just over 5 litres. If you assume the figure is per person then with a population of 6m Scottish Water supplies 30m litres of water per day. It doesn't up and I wondered if anyone had some accurate information. When oil was a topic in the good old days there was always someone who worked in the industry and knew some facts. Just wondered if there was a water worker who read this forum?

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Originally Posted by BCram

I know it is exciting! I would like to know how much water Scottish Water delivers. Was hoping to understand how, what I think is a publicly owned utility company, works. Do they sell less water when it is wet. Is summer usage very different from winter usage?
1.8bn litres a day for NW England sounds a much more sensible figure. If you convert 1.34gl into litres you get just over 5 litres. If you assume the figure is per person then with a population of 6m Scottish Water supplies 30m litres of water per day. It doesn't up and I wondered if anyone had some accurate information. When oil was a topic in the good old days there was always someone who worked in the industry and knew some facts. Just wondered if there was a water worker who read this forum?

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You would be better finding out how many litres of water are lost in Scotland thanks to Scottish Water’s failure to find and stop water leaks.
About ten years ago there was a panic on Islay thanks to a dry winter (by Islay weather standards) and a drought with little rain for over two months. Scottish Water workers were repairing water leaks all over the island which had been happening for years but nobody did anything
about it until there was a panic.
The whisky distilleries have their own private water supplies which on occasion run almost dry resulting in the silent season starting earlier than planned.

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Originally Posted by BCram

I know it is exciting! I would like to know how much water Scottish Water delivers. Was hoping to understand how, what I think is a publicly owned utility company, works. Do they sell less water when it is wet. Is summer usage very different from winter usage?
1.8bn litres a day for NW England sounds a much more sensible figure. If you convert 1.34gl into litres you get just over 5 litres. If you assume the figure is per person then with a population of 6m Scottish Water supplies 30m litres of water per day. It doesn't up and I wondered if anyone had some accurate information. When oil was a topic in the good old days there was always someone who worked in the industry and knew some facts. Just wondered if there was a water worker who read this forum?

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Water in NW England is metered at point of use isn't it? If so I'd imagine it's much easier to get an accurate figure for the amount supplied to each customer than it is in Scotland. However I'd imagine it will be metered at point of entry into the Scottish system so Islay's point about leakage is valid to an extent as the amount fed into the system won't be the amount consumed at point of use.

I doubt our resident puddle drinking troll would care so no point asking him.

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You would be better finding out how many litres of water are lost in Scotland thanks to Scottish Water’s failure to find and stop water leaks.
About ten years ago there was a panic on Islay thanks to a dry winter (by Islay weather standards) and a drought with little rain for over two months. Scottish Water workers were repairing water leaks all over the island which had been happening for years but nobody did anything
about it until there was a panic.
The whisky distilleries have their own private water supplies which on occasion run almost dry resulting in the silent season starting earlier than planned.

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Not everyone in Scotland gets their water supply from Scottish Water.
In remote parts of Scotland particularly where new houses have been built in remote parts households have their own water supply with large underground water tanks in their garden. However people with their own private water supply have to very careful with their use of water especially during the drier summer months to avoid running out of water.
If this happens I would hope that Scottish Water charges the households to supply them with water as households with a private water supply do not pay water charges on the Council tax bill.

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Originally Posted by BCram

I know it is exciting! I would like to know how much water Scottish Water delivers. Was hoping to understand how, what I think is a publicly owned utility company, works. Do they sell less water when it is wet. Is summer usage very different from winter usage?
1.8bn litres a day for NW England sounds a much more sensible figure. If you convert 1.34gl into litres you get just over 5 litres. If you assume the figure is per person then with a population of 6m Scottish Water supplies 30m litres of water per day. It doesn't up and I wondered if anyone had some accurate information. When oil was a topic in the good old days there was always someone who worked in the industry and knew some facts. Just wondered if there was a water worker who read this forum?

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The simple solution is to submit a Freedom of Information request to Scottish Water asking for answers to your questions.

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Not everyone in Scotland gets their water supply from Scottish Water.
In remote parts of Scotland particularly where new houses have been built in remote parts households have their own water supply with large underground water tanks in their garden. However people with their own private water supply have to very careful with their use of water especially during the drier summer months to avoid running out of water.
If this happens I would hope that Scottish Water charges the households to supply them with water as households with a private water supply do not pay water charges on the Council tax bill.

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Approximately 3% of the popuation of Scotland use a private water supply for drinking water. They get this water from lochs, burns or boreholes and are responsible for its treatment and quality themselves. In the highly unlikely event that an individual's supply should run out I'm sure they could buy drinking water from a reputable supplier for the very short time they'd be without - a bit like I would do if my water was ever cut off for any reason. Not sure how Scottish Water could supply to these hoseholds outside of fitting stand pipes and, given that the properties are too far from a main supply to be connected to it, I just don't see that being practical.

Any idea what year this is?