{"id":10119,"date":"2012-11-28T12:03:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T11:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=10119"},"modified":"2012-11-28T14:04:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T13:04:45","slug":"the-things-that-im-learning-about-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=10119","title":{"rendered":"The things that I&#8217;m learning about water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is now eight months since I was appointed the independent Chair of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southeastwater.co.uk\/about-us\/our-business\/customer-challenge-group#ad-image-0\">Customer Challenge Group<\/a> at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southeastwater.co.uk\/pls\/apex\/f?p=sewl:1:0\">South East Water<\/a> which supplies drinking water to 2.1 million customers in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire. I&#8217;m paid to do a day a week, but obviously the actual workload varies from week to week.<\/p>\n<p>This week, I spent a day chairing the fourth meeting of the Group. Also I attended a conference on the lessons from the drought in Kent and, later this week, I shall be attending \u00a0an Ofwat workshop on sustainability. I am constantly learning new things.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, I have discovered that 95% of a pint of beer consists of water and five pints of water are needed to produce one pint of beer.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I have come to appreciate that around one quarter of the typical \u00a3200 or so a year water bill is influenced significantly by something as esoteric as the cost of capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is now eight months since I was appointed the independent Chair of the\u00a0Customer Challenge Group at\u00a0South East Water which supplies drinking water to 2.1 million customers in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire. I&#8217;m paid to do a day a week, but obviously the actual workload varies from week to week. This week, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-matters","category-environment","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10123,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10119\/revisions\/10123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}