Anne (Anne Thormey - primary proponent arguing we should pay for water)

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Liveline · "We don't seem to want to pay for necessary things" · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

And why don't I get one?

My husband was an assistant secretary in the Department of Local Government.

He brought in group water schemes in the 60s.

He's dead now.

Yeah, I remember.

75 euros to get it.

75 pounds.

Yeah, but you're in the country.

You're in the country, yeah.

I remember group water schemes.

I'm in rural... I'm in...

rural county cabin and do you mind Paul do you mind me asking how much you pay on a group water scheme it's I can't remember what the last bill was it's reasonable I'll say that it's very I can tell you one thing the people with no respect to your contributors there I don't know them for madam but you know you have an awful lot of people complaining about paying for water and the public spend more money on bottled water you know in the other word but I just want to say this

You know, it's a big bear of mine talking about, oh, it's a natural resource and it's just going to last over, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Don't pay for water if you're happy to put a barrel under a fountain at the end of your house or your garage or whatever and bring that in and heat it up to wash your kids or put them in a bath or whatever or wash it up or whatever.

You are paying for the facility for the luxury of being able to go turn on your tap and turn it off.

That's what you're paying for.

And that's infrastructure.

And infrastructure costs money.

And the upkeep of infrastructure costs money.

But if people want to go out and buy gallons and gallons and gallons of water or go to the well three or four times a day, happy days.

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