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Billed for undrinkable water!

  • 25-04-2015 10:20pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭


    Just received a bill from Irish water, we live in an area that has a "boil water" notice in force. Was informed that they will remove the money in a couple of weeks by direct debit.

    No fúcking way will I pay for water that is considered undrinkable! :mad:
    So I rang IW and cancelled the direct debit, they can go and fúck themselves.


    I feel better now. :P


Comments

  • #2
    newbie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,477 ✭✭✭newbie2


    are you being charged for waste water?


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    newbie2 wrote: »
    are you being charged for waste water?

    Same undrinkable problem...


  • #4
    moxin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭moxin


    newbie2 wrote: »
    are you being charged for waste water?

    How can ya drink wastewater? You taking the piss?


  • #5
    JustTheOne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,681 ✭✭✭JustTheOne


    Could you not just post this in the Irish water thread?

    Seeking attention...


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    newbie2 wrote: »
    are you being charged for waste water?
    No, I have a wastewater treatment system I already pay for maintenance, desludging for it.


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  • #7
    keithclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,208 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Just received a bill from Irish water, we live in an area that has a "boil water" notice in force. Was informed that they will remove the money in a couple of weeks by direct debit.

    No fúcking way will I pay for water that is considered undrinkable! :mad:
    So I rang IW and cancelled the direct debit, they can go and fúck themselves.


    I feel better now. :P

    Nice one OP, you've proved the point.

    At least you have an option now not to pay.


  • #8
    Baggy Trousers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,816 ✭✭✭Baggy Trousers


    Boil the bill.
    You'd be foolish to pay an Irish Water quango bill before the next general election.


  • #9
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,196 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Is there anything at all to be said for blasting them with boiled piss??


  • #10
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,312 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    JustTheOne wrote: »
    Could you not just post this in the Irish water thread?

    Seeking attention...

    Or put it in the Cowen thread. That's all about Water now.


  • #11
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    JustTheOne wrote: »
    Could you not just post this in the Irish water thread?

    Seeking attention...
    which one?


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  • #12
    satguy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,850 ✭✭✭satguy


    JustTheOne wrote: »
    Could you not just post this in the Irish water thread?

    Seeking attention...

    There's a lot of new guys that only signed up in the last few weeks, and they go around jumping on boardies that say anything bad about IW.


  • #13
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,076 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Just received a bill from Irish water, we live in an area that has a "boil water" notice in force. Was informed that they will remove the money in a couple of weeks by direct debit.

    No fúcking way will I pay for water that is considered undrinkable! :mad:
    So I rang IW and cancelled the direct debit, they can go and fúck themselves.


    I feel better now. :P

    Heard a discussion on the radio about this exact scenario several weeks ago!

    Irish Water is a new utility, and as such it has no records of water quality for any given premises, so bills are issued to everybody in the state for the very 1st time (until it can be ascertained which premises have 'boil water notices'). . .

    It is then up to you (boil water notive people) to inform Irish Water of your personal situation (undrinkable water from the mains tap), the records at Irish Water will then be updated, and the water bill will be scrapped for those premises with undrinkable/dirty water.

    You will not be expected to pay.

    Simples.


  • #14
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,312 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    satguy wrote: »
    There's a lot of new guys that only signed up in the last few weeks, and they go around jumping on boardies that say anything bad about IW.

    Go around where?


  • #15
    Vandango
    Closed Accounts Posts: 604 ✭✭✭Vandango


    Deleted User wrote: »
    So I rang IW and cancelled the direct debit, they can go and fúck themselves.

    Bottle a sample, label it Biohazard and send it back to them to emphasise your point.


  • #16
    Flood
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 560 ✭✭✭Flood


    Besides drinking it you are still consuming water for toilets and appliances so you should pay for this usage.


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Having removed the direct debit mandate, they can't "pull a fast one" now.
    But yes, I don't expect to be pursued for payment.


  • #18
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,312 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Vandango wrote: »
    Bottle a sample, label it Biohazard and send it back to them to emphasise your point.

    How would you send it? An Post do not allow biohazards in the post.


  • #19
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Just received a bill from Irish water, we live in an area that has a "boil water" notice in force. Was informed that they will remove the money in a couple of weeks by direct debit.

    No fúcking way will I pay for water that is considered undrinkable! :mad:
    So I rang IW and cancelled the direct debit, they can go and fúck themselves.


    I feel better now. :P
    You need to contact your bank and instruct them not to pay any money to irish water and to cancel any active or dormant debits on your account for Irish water.


  • #20
    Flood
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 560 ✭✭✭Flood


    foggy_lad wrote: »
    You need to contact your bank and instruct them not to pay any money to irish water and to cancel any active or dormant debits on your account for Irish water.

    This is nonsense.


  • #21
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    Is there a part of Athlone on a boil water notice?


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  • #22
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,661 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    satguy wrote: »
    There's a lot of new guys that only signed up in the last few weeks, and they go around jumping on boardies that say anything bad about IW.

    Paid my bill on Friday. Hell of a service.


  • #23
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It's almost like systems aren't perfect and can make mistakes just like people can.


  • #24
    WheatenBriar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,170 ✭✭✭WheatenBriar


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Having removed the direct debit mandate, they can't "pull a fast one" now.
    But yes, I don't expect to be pursued for payment.
    FYI,All direct debits have to be refunded with 30 days if you request this
    Sepa rules

    On the general point,it's unreal how IW don't know who is on a boil notice and how they are sending bills to people not connected to a public supply
    It serious ineptitude/bad management,easily averted


  • #25
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Surly it is known which areas are on boil notices? This information is not the preserve of residents. Could there not be some communication between the councils that issued the boil notices and IW? Or can I just claim to be on boil notice and IW have apparently no way of disproving this?


  • #26
    Phoebas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,371 ✭✭✭Phoebas


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Just received a bill from Irish water, we live in an area that has a "boil water" notice in force. Was informed that they will remove the money in a couple of weeks by direct debit.

    No fúcking way will I pay for water that is considered undrinkable! :mad:
    So I rang IW and cancelled the direct debit, they can go and fúck themselves.


    I feel better now. :P

    In summary:
    1. You're on a boil notice.
    2. You registered with Irish Water and completed a direct debit mandate.
    3. Irish Water send you a bill.
    4. You rang Irish Water to explain your situation and get it sorted out.
    4. You throw a strop on the internet to get it sorted out.


  • #27
    Titzon Toast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,564 ✭✭✭Titzon Toast


    Flood wrote: »
    Besides drinking it you are still consuming water for toilets and appliances so you should pay for this usage.

    He/she already does. Why pay twice?


  • #28
    galljga1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,938 ✭✭✭galljga1


    Titzon Toast wrote: »
    He/she already does. Why pay twice?

    Is it not three times?


  • #29
    galljga1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,938 ✭✭✭galljga1


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    Go around where?

    Your house bud. Don't say another word.


  • #30
    towelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 112 ✭✭towelly


    LordSutch wrote: »
    Heard a discussion on the radio about this exact scenario several weeks ago!

    Irish Water is a new utility, and as such it has no records of water quality for any given premises, so bills are issued to everybody in the state for the very 1st time (until it can be ascertained which premises have 'boil water notices'). . .

    It is then up to you (boil water notive people) to inform Irish Water of your personal situation (undrinkable water from the mains tap), the records at Irish Water will then be updated, and the water bill will be scrapped for those premises with undrinkable/dirty water.

    You will not be expected to pay.

    Simples.

    So Irish Water's official records of "boil water notice people" will be based entirely on people writing in to say they are in such an area?

    ****in hell :pac:


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  • #31
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,633 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Simple don't pay.

    Nobody should pay.

    Its time people actually wake up and see we are all been taken for fools.

    What next a living tax.


  • #32
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    towelly wrote: »
    So Irish Water's official records of "boil water notice people" will be based entirely on people writing in to say they are in such an area?

    ****in hell :pac:
    You couldn't make it up


  • #33
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    All irish water discussion has been moved to the politics cafe, they have a mega thread in place. Please read their charter before posting.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057396292


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