We are told the Government is to take a tough line with people in the South-East with regard to the water crisis.
We pay our taxes the same way other areas of the UK do and it is the Government's duty to provide this basic commodity to everyone.
The Department of the Environment has plans for the provision of water in the South which they update each year with the water companies, so why are we in a drought situation? I asked the MP for Hove to make these plans public but she did not reply.
The Department of the Environment says we cannot have a National Grid for Water because of the cost but the Government is happy to write off billions following wrong payments under the family tax credit system.
Meters do not save water. They only raise the cost to the consumer.
Perhaps The Argus could collect comments and questions from the readers about the water shortage to put to the Minister.
-B Bayliss, Hove
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