What is your water bill?

[JDM625]

I realise this has likely be done to death but how much do you spend per person, per month or how many litres do you use?

Its just DH and myself. We both WFH so are here ALL day though. I do 1 load of wash and 1 load in the dishwasher per week (on average). We have a 5000litre tank buried in the garden which takes all water from the roof, so very rarely use the mains water outside. We don't wash the car and always have showers.

Today's bill is £307 for 6mths. The companies home page says we use 173L each per day, but on the bill its 128L each. Its £26 a month each- which doesn't sound too much, but they say we are using above average for 2 people. Are we? What do you pay?

Ours is £69 a month but we are high usage!
Family of 4 plus im a CM. Washing machine and dishwasher used once a day at least!
2 adults and one teen having regular baths or showers! Plus another teen whos mostly staying at her dads but does have a bath here once in a while.

€400 for 3 months, just me.

Wow! You use be doing loads of washing, flushing and showering to have a bill like that!

Just normal washing with full load (2-3 per week), dishwashing (1-2 loads per week plus a sink full most nights), a 3 mins or less shower daily with 1 at 5 mins to wash my hair weekly, about 2 baths/year…

It’s expensive in my city though - and I still have to filter all drinking or cooking water as it’s so hard (full of lime).

There are no water charges here and I don't know what you mean by capped at £500.

£540 for 6 months just came to through, up 45% (price not usage). 2 adults 2 teens, 1 teen has a bath every morning (and I can’t complain as I’m happy he’s not smelly…)

Feliciafancybottom-

We've lived here for 20 years and never paid a cent.

I can only think your water supply is paid by some other means? Included in council tax? Something has to be paid to supply domestic water and sewage treatment . Just received my water bill -128.59. Two people, 3 bed house, 2-3 wash loads a week.

£56 a month - South West (Bristol Water)
2 person, 3 bed household
No meter as we can't have one
Washing machine on 3-4 times a week
2 showers a day
Dishwasher on once a day.

We don't have council tax either. We pay a small property tax once a year, which goes towards services (not waste collection, we pay for that separately).

Think I’ll move to Ireland!

I'm around £30 per month and live alone but I have guinea pigs and wash their bedding a couple of times a week. I notice on the bill though that sewerage makes up a large part of it. Slightly over half in fact. I don't flush after every single wee either.

Can’t get a water meter fitted so paying wayyyy over. My bill was nearly £700 I phoned up asked for a water meter found out I couldn’t have one. I live on my own so apparently they can offer me a reduced rate of just over £400 a year. I know I’m literally being ripped off but nothing I can do apparently

Which water company?

£400 per year is reasonable

I didn't say it wasn't.

Different companies have, I think, different policies when assessing charges where a meter cannot be fitted. Curious as to which one.

There are two of us, shower rather than bathe, use the washing machine & the dish washer more than you. Wash the car from water butts. Last 6 months cost £250. But we had an underground leak for a few weeks that has now been fixed, so I'm hoping usage next 6 months will be less.

Our clean water is from Southern, waste water taken away by Thames.

Scotland so it's included in our council tax. £466.97 a year.

Wash? What is wash.

you get what you pay for! or don't pay for ;)
The water industry in Ireland is well behind the UK in terms of service standards and regulation.

Just paid £232 for the past six months on water meter. Two DDs moved out in September so it’s just been me and DP since then, but before that, obviously there were four of us. Severn Trent.

Have a dishwasher, washing machine on regularly (not as much without DDs obviously), showers etc.

When we first moved in here 26 years ago, we weren’t on a meter and the bill was about £345 for the year even back then which nearly made us drop dead from shock until they suggested trying a meter instead. Never would go back.

Yes, it's in dire need of updating.

4 adults + 1 child in the house. Dishwasher on 2x a day, 1-2 washes in washing machine. Showers etc. were really high users so after trying a meter for 6 months we decided to go back on rateable charge. Paying £120 per month but I think that included some debt from being on the meter.

I’m in the Us and for three people we pay $125 US which if I googled correctly is about £93 British?? It’s quite a bit more in the summer as we live in a desert area. Almost no lawn whatsoever. We grow some of our vegs.