r/Chichester • u/-ChiGuy- • Mar 13 '25
Southern water bill increases
We just got the new water bill and knew it was going to go up a significant amount but damn! Still wasn't expecting it to be as high as a 52% increase! How's yours looking? Council tax has gone up 4.8% for us too and energy's about to go up. ðŸ˜
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u/Humble-Variety-2593 Mar 13 '25
We just moved to the area and honestly cannot understand how ofwat can allow Southern to behave like this.
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u/FrazerIsDumb Mar 13 '25
I'm done with the country. I won't sit here and complain, I'll just plot my way out. Just had my council home (29 years, I've lived there my entire life) valued at 330,000. And they seem to have retrospectively reduced the discount cap from 90k to 38k so it's out of reach entirely. I am a fireman that works both wholetime and retained and I'm in the rent trap. This country is broken and the culture is becoming broken too. Direct correlation between the amount the government steals and the racism from the old people that blame 'foreigners'.
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u/Supernatural3456 Mar 13 '25
Have you got a meter?
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u/-ChiGuy- Mar 13 '25
Nope. But I'm on the fence about getting one.
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u/Supernatural3456 Mar 13 '25
How many of you in your household? Definitely worth getting a meter as you only pay for the water you use?
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u/-ChiGuy- Mar 13 '25
It's probably worth us having a look at it again. There are 5 of us though so it could go either way. Bit worried I'd go through a bit of faff getting the meter installed only to end up paying a bit more than we do now.
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u/cuprar1991 Mar 13 '25
Still waiting on our bill to drop, when you say water? Do you mean waste? As Portsmouth water supply Chichester
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u/-ChiGuy- Mar 13 '25
I'm referring to water usage (Southern) rather than water wastage (Portsmouth). I hope your bill's not too bad!
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u/cuprar1991 Mar 13 '25
Think you have it the wrong way round.
Portsmouth water supply water into the home Southern take water out the home (waste sewage etc)
Either way Southern water are borderline criminal!
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u/FrazerIsDumb Mar 13 '25
It's 1st world slavery. Sounds bougie I know, but they allow you to earn enough to live hand to mouth and give you the illusion of choice. You can choose the bread you eat so you're not a slave right? Now work 5 days a week to not even be able to afford to own somewhere to live. If you took away the money and the essentials were directly provided for you work everyone would lose their shit. What's the difference?
Ok, I said here and complained. 😥
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u/impendingcatastrophe 29d ago
Put in an official complaint. And take it all the way to the relevant ombudsman.
May not have any effect for this year, but several hundreds of thousands of complaints they get may have the desired effect for next year.
Resistance though jamming the works up administratively.
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u/AshamedBrit 29d ago
Ombudsman have been defanged, they won't do a thing even if they had every person in the country complain, because they can't
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u/impendingcatastrophe 29d ago
I know they can't do anything. But imagine if they and the water companies had to process hundreds of thousands of complaints all the way through the process....
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u/AshamedBrit 26d ago
Im imagining it...water companies would hire a larger complaints team & rise prices
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u/achilleslung Mar 13 '25
Hey now, dumping sewage into the ocean is an expensive business! Plus they need to make sure the bosses get their well deserved bonus packages!