Southern Water said it has reduced leaks by almost 20% over the last twelve (12) months, however, that money from rising bills is needed to improve infrastructure.
A Senior Water Company Boss said, People will need to use less water in the future or bills will not stop to rise.
Tim Mcmahon, Southern Water managing director of water, revealed the company was making investment in improving infrastructure as most water sources will be needed to change over the coming decades.
In Havant, Hampshire, the Havant Thicket Reservoir, will be the UK’s first reservoir in 30 years and is being built by Southern Water and Portsmouth Water.
The Company made known, it would be able to reserve 8.7bn litres of water and ensure the provision of up to 111m litres of water a day during a drought.
According to a survey by Water UK, it was discovered that, 46% of people thought their entire household used 20 litres (four gallons) of water a day, but, the average household in the UK uses more than 500 litres (110 gallons).
Mr McMahon told BBC South Today: “We can’t keep extracting from our current sources that we take our water from. Sixty per centre of them will be different in 20 years’ time. That’s where the investment is going. If you look at the south-east of England, it’s drier than Sydney, Istanbul, Dallas, Marrakech. We have got a very densely populated area and we need to start investing to cater for that. If you’re in Hampshire, water will be coming from Oxfordshire from the new reservoir we’re building with Thames Water, pumped all the way down to Hampshire. We need to reduce customers’ usage. Otherwise we will have to put other investments in place, which will not be good for our customers and might not be the best thing for the environment.”
