welsh water vegan post

[davidroberts30]

this was posted earlier and removed a little later


maybe we should all dock 1/7 off our bills...

if they fixed all their leaks they would save more water than most of us together

 

[C.J]

1/3 for animals therefore 2/3's for crops

Its salad we need to give up

 

[Bald Rick]

Would have thought it was far higher than 1/3 use by animals especially in Wales but there you go. Sound bites rule the world

 

[Al R]

Without doing to much digging I found this.

 

[Cvx1170]

 

[primmiemoo]

Poor Letti the Unicorn

 

[Still Farming]

Farmers are some of their biggest customers and accommodate varst utilities networks and apparatus on their lands?
Not for profit company ?
Ethics and politics ???

 

[betweenthelines]

Or, All our drinking water falls first as rain on farmland. Thank you to the farmers for letting us have it.

 

[David.]

A 9"(ish) main leaked for fully 8 weeks last summer, after I reported it to Anglian Water; ran an otherwise dry roadside ditch like it would in winter, all that time. And they have the temerity to tell customers to save water, and if you have a leak on your property hat you are unaware of, you still have to pay through the meter. Disgraceful.

 

[Grem]

Farmers are some of their biggest customers and accommodate varst utilities networks and apparatus on their lands?
Not for profit company ?
Ethics and politics ???

Are these questions or statements?

 

[Agrispeed]

The figure that is thrown around is quite old and based on total water use - including that required to grow the grass. Not really an issue in Wales! In fact livestock farming is possibly best chance of reducing flood risk by capturing water - it also ignores any water use for the crops that would replace the beef

A lot of 'vegan' crops require a phenomenal amounts of water - Irrigated Almonds in particular are a main user of irrigation that are causing massive water problems in California. That is ignoring the fact that vegan demand, is part of creating a demand for deforestation in south america.

 

[Still Farming]

Are these questions or statements?

Well how is it taken?
Is that fb post allegedly for or against livestock farming?
What's going on ?
Walesonline picked it up now also.

 

[Barleycorn]

I can't get my head round all this 'beef uses x amount of water per llb', water is a mobile substance. Cattle drink water, and when it passes through them it either evaporates and comes back as rain, or ends up in aquafers. We eat meat and the same thing happens. Lot healthier than growing almonds in California using fossilised water.

 

[Princess Pooper]

This isn't just Welsh Water, Waterwise has adopted #meatfreemonday as one it is themes for this week and it's certainly being constantly picked up on by different water and 'green' companies. I do hope that the NFU is all over this @Guy Smith. The core study that the figures are bases on is completely inapplicable to UK beef production.

 

[SilliamWhale]

I can't get my head round all this 'beef uses x amount of water per llb', water is a mobile substance. Cattle drink water, and when it passes through them it either evaporates and comes back as rain, or ends up in aquafers. We eat meat and the same thing happens. Lot healthier than growing almonds in California using fossilised water.

I suppose the only argument they have is that "treated" water costs money to treat and arguably could be more efficient than not using it. WW have a facile argument really though - they going way beyond their remit and out of their depth

Can't imagine any big users of water (dairy and irrigation) use mains?

 

[pellow]

how many farmers use water from the mains supply? everyone I know has a bore hole

 

[Still Farming]

how many farmers use water from the mains supply? everyone I know has a bore hole

Water,sewerage,infrastructure, mains crossing lands,sewerage works, pumping stations ,tanks,reservoirs etc etc many landowners/farmers involved with dwr cymru welsh water allegedly what ever.

 

[bracken basher]

NFU Cymru reaction-

https://www.nfu-cymru.org.uk/news/l...28tiqvxeapy0hkb9nsyh1nuilfeosrr_aw-l11eub9l9s

 

[Al R]

how many farmers use water from the mains supply? everyone I know has a bore hole

They can’t get electric poles in square here without hitting bedrock, other than dairy I don’t know of any farms on a borehole and I still know quite a few dairy herds (all under 300 cows) that are still on mains.

 

[Danllan]

Poor Letti the Unicorn

There are still three-toed unicorns in Africa.