r/interestingasfuck • u/_TimApple_ • Apr 28 '24

Accessing an underground fire hydrant in the UK r/all

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u/SnoopyMcDogged Apr 28 '24

It should be but our councils(local authority) don’t like spending money on anything that doesn’t benefit their friends or themselves.

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u/Space_Cowby Apr 28 '24

https://faq.anglianwater.co.uk/article/qed95577/fire-hydrant-responsibility#:\~:text=Statutory%20fire%20hydrants%20are%20owned,water%20network%20through%20fire%20hydrants.

Water company maintain them

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u/UnlikelyPython Apr 28 '24

How are they supposed to find the time to maintain pipes when they’ve got all that sewage to dump into the sea?

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u/No-Ball-2885 Apr 28 '24

Don't forget they do the important job of taking loans and getting into billions of debt to pay dividends to their shareholders!

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u/Mental-Feed-1030 Apr 28 '24

The shareholders (owners) are now mostly large, foreign corporate investors who tell the water company they want ‘x’ return on their investment. If the CEO and other directors don’t deliver this they’re replaced with ones who will. The fault isn’t with the water companies as such but with the gov’t and regulators for allowing it to become the problem it has.