to wonder why this hasnt made the news given we are in a pandemic.

[HeIenaDove]

Thames Water customers without water in East London. Supermarkets quickly selling out of bottled water.

Over to you Sadiq Boris Matt Hancock. Im sure we will see a big statement about this from them given their concern for public health.

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@Hellomoonstar it depends where you are, here if you register for priority services as vulnerable you will be prioritized for water.

FGS !!!!!!

We have power cuts and burst pipes all the time. Absolutely pathetic to make a fuss about the water being off for a few hours.

I can't believe the OP is so lily-livered (ah, that phrase just came to me) about something that can happen at any time. What a whinger.

@Hellomoonstar - anyone who isn't being helped by Thames Water (0800 316 9800) can contact their local authority for help, just the same as any other time. Nobody should have to pay for water.

A burst pipe! Hahaha, hundreds a day all over the place.

I assumed we were at least talking about an (also, but less) regular failure at a treatment works or something.

Do people really think there is any remotely financially viable way to ensure that a pipe never busts or gets ruptured anywhere? And that there should be backup pipes so that if it does there isn’t an outage.

Mind blown

Nine postcodes in the Captial leaving what must be millions without water and the temporary measures unable to cope is bigger news than a much smaller numbers more rurally, with supermarkets easily able to cope wirh demand surely?

I Iove the way people outside London are determined that London shouldn't be more important. It is. (I'm not in London, but I can see that London plays a far bigger part than anywhere else).

I want COMPENSAYSHUN !!!

A burst pipe that has knocked out the water for thousands of people happens hundreds of times every day, does it?

Don't you think that's a serious failing on the part of the water companies responsible for maintaining these pipes? Don't you think it's about time to re-nationalise our water if these profit-seeking companies are failing so spectacularly in their duty?

As with the inefficient privatised supply chains delaying the purchase of PPE and other vital supplies in the NHS

Sorry, but it was PHE that fucked up, a government agency. Those hospitals who bought their own PPE directly from private companies had less issues with lack of supply.

Don't you think it's about time to re-nationalise our water if these profit-seeking companies are failing so spectacularly in their duty?

Why do you think re nationalising them will make them more efficient? Keen to hear.

@Tanith

A burst pipe that has knocked out the water for thousands of people happens hundreds of times every day, does it?

Don't you think that's a serious failing on the part of the water companies responsible for maintaining these pipes? Don't you think it's about time to re-nationalise our water if these profit-seeking companies are failing so spectacularly in their duty?

Water pipes burst. Show me a country anywhere in the world where that isn’t the case.

Even places like Dubai where nearly everything is new in the last 20 years. Never mind in city’s that were built before main water, gas, electric, telecoms etc were even a thing.

We are in outer London - a burst water main is a very regular occurrence. Makes the traffic awful for days, Thames Water does hand out bottled emergency water and they distribute it at sites. Most people have back up bottled water at home for this precise reason. Op you are being overly dramatic. Government can’t be responsible for everything. The water pipes are old and leaks happen. People need to take some responsibility for themselves too. Plus most people have sanitisers at home at the moment. Nurseries and schools have had to close in the past temporarily due to no water. Just a fact of life. Some of the drama llamas on here should go and try living in a third world country for a while and realise what life is like for the vast majority of the world’s population. We are incredibly lucky to have the rich Western systems we do have.

@Tanith

A burst pipe that has knocked out the water for thousands of people happens hundreds of times every day, does it?

Don't you think that's a serious failing on the part of the water companies responsible for maintaining these pipes? Don't you think it's about time to re-nationalise our water if these profit-seeking companies are failing so spectacularly in their duty?

But in Scotland it still happens.

Anyway, OP is just trying to spread a bit of panic by linking it to Coronavirus, in my opinion.

It's all just a little bit silly except for the fact that it may genuinely have worried some anxious people reading her OP, who are now convincing themselves that water is about to be rationed. It's not-it's just a broken pipe!

Naughty and badly done OP. And I don't care if you trot back with links to 500 page documents that "prove" that this is done on purpose by THE GOVERMENT to kill the poor of London.

Those links will all be pure and unadulterated bollocks.

why is there not a robust short term solution to help people who are affected until the problem gets fixed. They don’t really need to help everyone but protect the vulnerable and housebound
There is. You register as a ‘priority services’ customer and in the event of an outage you receive help right away. Everyone else receives bottled water or tanker/standpipe water if the supply is t back within 12 hours. This sounds like it wasn’t 12 hrs for most customers hence no bottled water. Also, if supply isn’t restored within 12hrs or 48hrs (depending on the type of water pipe involved) everyone affected can claim compensation for each day with no water.

Because if you can't attach the words cases ad deaths to it, it's not worth reporting.

"But in Scotland it still happens'

Then your problem is with the SNP, isn't it? Thousands of people deprived of water daily and they're doing nothing while their citizens think it's perfectly normal - why do you stand for that?

It didn't happen on this scale when water was nationally owned in England and Wales.

Water outages are fairly common where I am. We were off for 4 days not that long ago, and a neighbouring area had no supply for 5 days.

Elderly and vulnerable were looked after. Water points were set up locally. It was grim but we survived. The water company was working 24 hours a day and doing their best.

One of the big issues is the huge pressure to build in rural areas. Central government has mandated 100s of thousands of houses must be built in green field areas. These areas too not have the infrastructure to support the increase in housing. Water is one issue. Doctors, hospital beds and schools are others.

The lack of water in this case may not be the government's fault, but insisting houses are built where the water supply can't cope is.

It hasn't made news during a pandemic because it's a tiny part of the country, and irrelevant to 99.9% of the population.

I didn't have any electricity on Sunday morning. All morning. In a pandemic. It also didn't make the news.

I have rarely seen a sillier OP. We had a long power cut the other week. I am livid it was not on the national, nay, international news and that there was no statement in parliament about it. And I can’t believe that a workman drilled through a cable - didn’t he know there’s a pandemic?!

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Im in the US and I read about this on the BBC app this morning. I was quite surprised it had made the news TBH.

Well some of the posts on this thread are incredibly telling. Certainly shows up the hypocrisy on this board.

@HeIenaDove

Well some of the posts on this thread are incredibly telling. Certainly shows up the hypocrisy on this board.

Nice attempt at deflection OP, for clarity can you name and show an example of any of the poster that are being hypocritical? genuinely, I'm curious?

ONCE MORE WITH FEELING

Why is people refusing to wash their hands Covid related (which is posted about a lot on this board) but not being able to wash their hands isnt?

Hypocrisy.

Its okay Its fine. I get it. I really do. Its members of the public who will be blamed no matter what for anything that causes the potential spread of Covid. e,g, if anyone self isolating had to go out for bottled water THEY would be the ones blamed.