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  1. 35B replied to the thread Fire Risk.

    And I'd accept most of that analysis, with the caveat that consumers were very happy when the structure of the market combined with regulation held their prices down - and that the political reaction you describe is in part a response to the...

    Aug 12, 2026 at 8:53 PM

  2. 35B replied to the thread Fire Risk.

    I disagree with the framing of the question as a pure either/or, while agreeing that abstraction from chalk aquifers needs to be reduced and, ideally, eliminated. This summer, there needs to be a trade-off - which may well include restrictions...

    Aug 12, 2026 at 5:28 PM

  3. 35B replied to the thread Fire Risk.

    Fair enough - I've just seen too many argument that X will change Y, when under inspection "X" is a proxy for a whole alphabet soup of other things that it's assumed will magically sort themselves if X happens.

    Aug 12, 2026 at 1:41 PM

  4. 35B replied to the thread Fire Risk.

    The evidence of my lifetime, suggests that's not necessarily the case - both at the time of privatisation, and in how the industry has been regulated. And, even so, it's a "should" rather than a "would" - my question is not about the value...

    Aug 12, 2026 at 1:28 PM

  5. 35B replied to the thread Fire Risk.

    Just quoting this - and it's my normal reaction to any proposal of structural change to fix a problem. What difference will it make, why, and how? That's not a value judgment, but to ask whether nationalisation (or even privatisation) will...

    Aug 12, 2026 at 1:01 PM

  6. 35B replied to the thread Fire Risk.

    I'm not defending the water companies but, as a recent government commissioned report found, their failures are also a result of political and regulatory choices that have prioritised price. If the problems are going to be cured, honesty about...

    Aug 12, 2026 at 11:16 AM

  7. 35B replied to the thread Fire Risk.

    I don't disagree - I'm no fisherman, but have family links with the Itchen Valley and recognise the importance of chalk streams. However, there are short and long term issues. What you describe are long term issues, which long pre-date water...

    Aug 12, 2026 at 10:24 AM

  8. 35B replied to the thread Fire Risk.

    Hopefully, though I notice that Southern Water are applying for something more than a hosepipe ban in at least part of their area, because the supply is based on abstraction from the River Test. From how it's been presented, I don't think that...

    Aug 12, 2026 at 9:55 AM

  9. 35B liked 26D_M's post in the thread RTC 2026.

    Something which really belongs in the "Transparency .....etc" thread but this sort of discussion has been going on for well over a decade. When some sensible folk said exactly as you have, Alan, others piled in with "so sue RTC". It's as if RTC...

    Aug 12, 2026 at 9:08 AM

  10. 35B replied to the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    On the contrary, I think the tourist potential of the L&B was realised and used - within the context of the tourism of the period (there is then also the question of the true motives behind George Newnes’ support of the railway!). A century...

    Aug 12, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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