In article , nightjar@?.?
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"The Question Asker" wrote in message
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Well just measured our pond its 8m*12m and 1m all over, which makes it 96
cubic meters, making it £144 a small fortune for water....

Not only do you need permission to use a hydrant, the water authority will
also charge you for the amount of water you draw from it. Taking water
without payment is theft.

So whose water was it before the water company got it -- and was any
payment made for the company's acquisition of that water?

We had to get the lawyers onto a company that kept sending its gully
washers onto our industrial estate, to fill up at our private hydrants,
so that they could avoid paying the water authority charges.

Did the industrial estate use its own well(s), spring(s) or aquifer(s)
and, if not, whence did that water supply originate?

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Paul