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minus-squareMr Poletski@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoya I think it’s a combination of factors causing them to do this, each of which comes back to that lack of investment. Also, any time you wonder if a publicly owned system would be better remember we already have one, Scottish Water, and overall they perform better.
minus-squarefutatorius@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoIt’ll be better if we actually make the investments rather than starve the nationalised enterprise. That means adequate staffing, staff training, and infrastructure planning and development.
minus-squareMr Poletski@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoWell that eveidently happened at Scottish water, their infrastructure investment is like 35% higher per household than it’s private counterparts. https://www.believeinscotland.org/scottish-water-a-victory-for-the-scottish-people-v-the-uk-government
ya I think it’s a combination of factors causing them to do this, each of which comes back to that lack of investment.
Also, any time you wonder if a publicly owned system would be better remember we already have one, Scottish Water, and overall they perform better.
It’ll be better if we actually make the investments rather than starve the nationalised enterprise. That means adequate staffing, staff training, and infrastructure planning and development.
Well that eveidently happened at Scottish water, their infrastructure investment is like 35% higher per household than it’s private counterparts.
https://www.believeinscotland.org/scottish-water-a-victory-for-the-scottish-people-v-the-uk-government