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Water charges

  • 01-11-2010 08:40PM
    #1
    ilovesleep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭


    Water charges are due to be brought in which is just fcuking sickening. As i write this it is pissing rain outside. It rained for three days solid last week. And its promised rain again all week. We are living in a proper cnut of a country.


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  • #2
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    thats life.













    well for us anyway


  • #3
    flyton5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭flyton5


    Such is life I'm afraid. And until people actually make a stand(which they wont by the way) nothing will change. You could switch to buying bottled water but it's gonna work out a lot more expensive. Adapt and overcome. What else can you do?


  • #4
    Big Pussy Bonpensiero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,801 ✭✭✭Big Pussy Bonpensiero


    Meh, live in a b&b so they already charge us... But arent we one of few countries where water is free??


  • #5
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    THFC wrote: »
    Meh, live in a b&b so they already charge us... But arent we one of few countries where water is free??

    other countries are charged not due to negligence though


  • #6
    farna_boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,763 ✭✭✭farna_boy


    What is even more sickening is the possibility of being charged for water if you have your own well.


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  • #7
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    My water turns brown every so often, it's more or less unusable for anything other than washing and seeing the colour it goes it barely feels like your clean after washing in it.


  • #8
    PanchoVilla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭PanchoVilla


    Well, if they're gonna start charging for water then they need to stop poisoning it with fluoride. I buy bottled water as it is but if I have to pay for the tap water as well then it better damn well be safe to drink.


  • #9
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    farna_boy wrote: »
    What is even more sickening is the possibility of being charged for water if you have your own well.

    well well well


  • #10
    Princess Peach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    Why don't you put some buckets outside your back door use that water then. Call the council and have them disconnect your water.


  • #11
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Princess Peach wrote: »
    Why don't you put some buckets outside your back door use that water then. Call the council and have them disconnect your water.
    because i like to shower


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  • #12
    Princess Peach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    because i like to shower

    Could have fooled me!


  • #13
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Princess Peach wrote: »
    Could have fooled me!

    you dont say that in bed :(


  • #14
    flyton5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭flyton5


    PanchoVilla wrote: »
    Well, if they're gonna start charging for water then they need to stop poisoning it with fluoride. I buy bottled water as it is but if I have to pay for the tap water as well then it better damn well be safe to drink.


    Care to elaborate? Flouride is hardly poison. Outrageous statement.


  • #15
    Princess Peach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    you dont say that in bed :(

    I like that dirty


  • #16
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    flyton5 wrote: »
    Care to elaborate?

    fluoride is unnecessarily added to our water supply,fluoride is a toxic chemical and a sedative wiki the rest..


  • #17
    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    ilovesleep wrote: »
    Water charges are due to be brought in which is just fcuking sickening. As i write this it is pissing rain outside. It rained for three days solid last week.

    You're being charged for processing the rain water into drinking water.
    That means maintaining reservoirs, all the infrastructure & hundreds of kilometers of pipes required to bring it to your kitchen tap, filtering it of contaminants, constant quality monitoring etc.

    There may be plenty of rain, but the water processing plants have a finite capacity to process it.


  • #18
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    Princess Peach wrote: »
    I like that dirty

    OOOoo kinky


  • #19
    ilovesleep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭ilovesleep


    farna_boy wrote: »
    What is even more sickening is the possibility of being charged for water if you have your own well.

    I hope to god fcukface cowen and his gang in government fall into the river liffey and drown


  • #20
    flyton5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭flyton5


    pmcmahon wrote: »
    fluoride is unnecessarily added to our water supply,fluoride is a toxic chemical and a sedative wiki the rest..


    It's why most people in areas that add flouride still have teeth in their mouths.


  • #21
    PanchoVilla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭PanchoVilla


    flyton5 wrote: »
    Care to elaborate? Flouride is hardly poison. Outrageous statement.

    Fluoride is a neurotoxin. Why do you think there's a warning on toothpaste tubes not to swallow or to call poison control if your child swallows more than a pea-sized amount? The fluoride they put in water in Ireland is industrial waste the council's get from a fertilizer plant in Wexford or Waterford.


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  • #22
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    flyton5 wrote: »
    It's why most people in areas that add flouride still have teeth in their mouths.

    or brushing your teeth?,tooth paste has the right amount contained,why add more toxic chemicals than you need to your body?
    unnecessary.


  • #23
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    CreepingDeath wrote: »
    You're being charged for processing the rain water into drinking water.
    That means maintaining reservoirs, all the infrastructure & hundreds of kilometers of pipes required to bring it to your kitchen tap, filtering it of contaminants, constant quality monitoring etc.
    If that actually happened it would be something, They may do it at the source but by the time the water gets to my tap it's unusable. It doesn't matter what they do if the end product delivered to me isn't usable and basically everything they do to clean the water is pointless if it's contaminated again by the time it gets to the end user.


  • #24
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    ilovesleep wrote: »
    Water charges are due to be brought in which is just fcuking sickening. As i write this it is pissing rain outside. It rained for three days solid last week. And its promised rain again all week. We are living in a proper cnut of a country.
    Ok.

    And what does that have to do with water charges?

    You realise you don't pay for water to have it imported from Zimbabwe. You pay to have it (in a stable municipal water system, which is something in development for Ireland, a supposedly first world country) to have it cleaned, treated, purified; and piped into your home. An abundance of rain is completely irrelevant. Go collect rainwater if you don't want to pay for treated municipal tap. Hell, just go collect rainwater, and start drinking it, and tell me what you think.

    On a side note Ireland pumps fluoride into the water supply like its the cure for cancer.. could seriously do without the concentration being supplied today.


  • #25
    flyton5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭flyton5


    PanchoVilla wrote: »
    Fluoride is a neurotoxin. Why do you think there's a warning on toothpaste tubes not to swallow or to call poison control if your child swallows more than a pea-sized amount? The fluoride they put in water in Ireland is industrial waste the council's get from a fertilizer plant in Wexford or Waterford.

    And you reckon they put toxic levels of the stuff in the water? I drink tap water on a fairly regular basis. No ill effects so far.


  • #26
    flyton5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭flyton5


    Overheal wrote: »
    Ok.

    And what does that have to do with water charges?

    I think the OP was just having a moan...it's allowed now and then.


  • #27
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    flyton5 wrote: »
    And you reckon they put toxic levels of the stuff in the water? I drink tap water on a fairly regular basis. No ill effects so far.

    drink filtrated water and you'll notice the difference,judge on your own basis


  • #28
    PanchoVilla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭PanchoVilla


    flyton5 wrote: »
    It's why most people in areas that add flouride still have teeth in their mouths.

    That's bullshít. All toothpastes have fluoride in them, making water fluoridation completely pointless for dental health. Even if that were the case, the government are mass medicating people without their consent. If I want my own teeth to rot and fall out of my head that's my own damn business. Water fluoridation has been banned in most other European countries and there has been no significant rise in tooth decay.


  • #29
    scientific1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭scientific1982


    PanchoVilla wrote: »
    Well, if they're gonna start charging for water then they need to stop poisoning it with fluoride. I buy bottled water as it is but if I have to pay for the tap water as well then it better damn well be safe to drink.
    Safer to drink the tap water than bottled water.


  • #30
    PanchoVilla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭PanchoVilla


    flyton5 wrote: »
    And you reckon they put toxic levels of the stuff in the water? I drink tap water on a fairly regular basis. No ill effects so far.

    Local county councils are responsible for testing fluoride levels. I rest my case.


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  • #31
    flyton5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭flyton5


    PanchoVilla wrote: »
    That's bullshít. All toothpastes have fluoride in them, making water fluoridation completely pointless for dental health. Even if that were the case, the government are mass medicating people without their consent. If I want my own teeth to rot and fall out of my head that's my own damn business. Water fluoridation has been banned in most other European countries and there has been no significant rise in tooth decay.


    You're working on the assumption that most people brush their teeth on a regular basis.


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