Wesley Stevenson
speaker
1,470 appearances
54 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard May 2015
Wesley Stevenson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Geoff, I don't know where you got that 8% figure from, but it's way out.
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Most of the water abstracted by the water... Abstracted?
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Yeah, it's kind of a word that water types use for getting water out of the ground.
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Most of the water abstracted by the water companies is used by domestic users, and that amounts to almost half of all the water abstraction in the country.
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So not 8%.
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Do we know how much water is used in hosepipes?
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We don't know, and if the water companies do know, they're not telling us about it.
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But what we do know is roughly how much previous bans have saved.
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Jacob Tompkins is managing director of a charity called Waterwise, which is trying to get people to reduce the amount of water they use, and they made estimates last time around.
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So last time around we saved 5-10%, but 5-10% of what?
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Well, the industry estimate is that everybody uses about 150 litres of water a day on average.
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So if we take a midpoint estimate and say that everybody saves around 10 litres, there are 20 million people affected by the hosepipe ban, so that's a ballpark figure of 200 million litres of water a day, give or take.
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Well, yes, no, that's a very good point.
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And it's one that Jacob Tompkins made to me.
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And he says there's another big issue too.
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Well, unfortunately, this is the wrong type of rain.
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It's come at the wrong time of year.
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Jamie Haniford is from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and he says you need rain in the winter.
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Do we know how much rain we might need exactly?
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As Jamie Hannaford said we need an exceptional amount of rainfall but it's actually really hard to measure.
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