Llandudno and Conway valley without water.

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As a huge number of homes, businesses, hospital patients and vulnerable community patients enter a second day without running water supplies is it really unreasonable to expect better contingency planning from water companies and the government?

Surely there should be more than one pipe supplying such a large area, especially when we live in unstable global times with high terror risks .
Supplies of bottled water quickly sold out due to panic buying, making the vulnerable even more vulnerable.

I hadn't heard anything about this. Why hasn't this been on the national news? Just checked and it's still not on the BBC website.

I know a lot of people in the area so havr heard about it, i don't understand why it isn't on the news

It is

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4882nj01no

Does this mean toilets can’t be flushed?

Only by pouring a bucket of water into the toilet bowl.

Water companies are only interested in profits for their shareholders, same with energy companies. If the basics ( water, gas, electricity and sewage) were nationalised and profits ploughed back into maintenance and improvements the country would run better.
Think parts of the county I live in were without water for 5 days around Christmas time. Did the water companies care? No.

Its top story on the BBC Wales page. The main homepage is a bit busy with the Israel/Gaza story right now.

Its a burst pipe 2 and half meters under a river bed. Sounds complicated, no wonder its taking a few days to fix.

Sadly that is what happens with privatisation. Water companies are all about profit with no investment in the infrastructure and growing demands.
Water should be in public ownership.

The local planning committees have a lot to answer for here too. Water infrastructure is always an afterthought. Local to us the council gave permission to build at least 1,000 new homes. It was only after the estate had been finished that they presented the water company with the issue that the existing water pressure wasn't sufficient (well duh, you added a lot more users to existing capacity) but also that the sewage drainage was sub par.

The council had signed off all of the developers plans and signed off the estate and basically told the water company they had to resolve it. Retro fitting a system is really bloody expensive and difficult. No wonder the existing infrastructure isn't being proactively upgraded when they're spending money to fix problems that should have been covered by developers.

Don't even get me started on dodgy builders and them bypassing the sewage in favour of grey water drainage because it's easier/cheaper when they do renovations.

At least Welsh Water is a not for profit company. Not ideal that it's private but much better than companies like Thames Water who pay millions to shareholders but plead poverty for infrastructure.

The water companies aren't blameless, but they're being hammered behind closed doors with people interfering with their network and infrastructure.

We had no water for 3 days a few years ago in a big freeze they turn ours off to preserve

supplies for reservoir for next city to keep hospital open
wasn’t the end of the world but there was pickup points for bottled water and vulnerable had it dropped off

The delights of privatisation.

At least shareholder value hasn't been impacted. They must come first

Welsh Water doesn't have shareholders. They're a not for profit company. Any profit made is automatically returned to customers as a credit on their bill each year.

I did not know that. Thanks

Thanks @LittleLegsKeepGoing I didn’t know that
Wish all the water companies were run like this. And electricity.And gas.