There is a ton of bullshit in this thread right here! =}
I don’t mean to single you out @flo, but as the last reply that made me roll my eyes, you’re quoted.
“Leaving it running makes some people feel among the privilaged [no. literally everybody has too much water here], like a status symbol but for the inner self [no. flowing champagne = status symbol; flowing water = every single home in this country]. They may think it is poor people’s thing [what?]. Knowing that they don’t need to save water may help them feel superior or equal to others [Yes, it helps me feel exactly the same as every other normal Englishman, which is totally why I do it~], similar like some people compensate for what they lack inside by buying expensive flashy things [Or maybe its because there is so much water here, making efforts to “save” it is like only building a small sandcastle to save sand on the beach] ”
The energy required to grow, process, transport, prepare and eat the food required to give me the energy to turn the tap off and on again is probably more than required to allow that water to flow for a minute. Considering it just naturally falls out of the sky (rain) in great abundance, filling up these land depressions (reservoirs), and makes its own way down the pipes to my tap (gravity).
If un-metered people turn off the tap like that to “save” water, I could only accept that as in accordance with their principles, if they had also constructed some mechanism for collecting and making use of all that water that falls out of the sky and runs “uselessly” into the Sea, at least for the extent of their own property.