New data unveiled by Sheffield Councillors has revealed that Yorkshire Water lose 283 megalitres of water every day. This is the equivalent of losing 54.2 litres per person in Yorkshire on a daily basis.
This news comes at the same time that Yorkshire Water have announced a hosepipe ban due to unsustainable levels of resources in their reservoirs.
After questioning Yorkshire Water on Twitter without reply about how many litres of leakage they are responsible for on a daily basis. Labour and Co-operative Councillors Ben Miskell and Minesh Parekh have discovered that Yorkshire Water lose 283,000,000 litres of water a day due to leakages.
To put this into perspective, it’s estimated that it takes 20,000 litres of water per day to maintain an English Premier League football pitch—and to keep Wembley’s in world-class condition, it is watered up to 4 times a day in the summer, using around 10,000,000 litres of water a year. Yorkshire Water lose more than 28 times this much on a daily basis.
Park and Arbourthorne Councillor Ben Miskell said:
“It is simply outrageous that Yorkshire Water are losing water to leakage at the scale they are, while at the same time raking in millions in profits.
“I have previously said that Yorkshire Water must make fixing broken pipes its number one priority. Knowing now the scale of water they are losing every day makes this even more urgent.
“The Government needs to step up and intervene to ensure that our water network gets the attention and improvements it has been denied, rather than let the general public continue to suffer from its neglect.”
On the Our Performance section of their website, Yorkshire Water celebrate losing 283.1Ml/d to leakages, saying that they more than met their leakage target.
Minesh Parekh, Labour and Co-operative Councillor for Crookes and Crosspool ward, said:
“Yorkshire Water are losing unimaginable quantities of water daily, due to their repeated refusal to upgrade our water infrastructure.
“It is abhorrent that they would celebrate losing 283,000,000 litres everyday and say that that has met their targets, while at the same time trying to restrict the amount of water households are using, because of the private company’s own failing.”
“We’re only at the point we are now because of private companies’ refusing to make improvements, and a Tory Government refusal to regulate them.”
