All you have to say Brian is very true, Sheila I can sympathise with you as when we lived in both Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire our water supplier was Thames, an absolutely awful company and like you we bought water from the supermarket for drinking purposes. Where we now live comes under Welsh Water, we find the quality is excellent, perfectly drinkable which has saved us a fortune as we no longer need to buy bottled water.

Water costs do vary, having a meter is the best thing for us, when we lived in Hertfordshire we didn’t have any say in the matter we had to take part in water meter trials as a consequence we were one of the first people to have a water metered installed, what a difference it made to our bills, also made us very aware not to waste water, I certainly think that water meters should be installed in all properties.. It amazes us how low our water charges are by comparison to friends who come under Northumbria Water.