The results come as environment secretary David Miliband holds a drought summit with regulators, water firms and consumer groups.
Bank lobby groups will try to water down the consumer agency's powers and to persuade lawmakers that higher capital requirements will curb lending to hard-working Americans (and put the industry at a disadvantage to international rivals).
Until Ofwat stopped it, Kelda, the Yorkshire water business, hoped to hive off its water assets into a consumer-owned mutual.
Rice growing, in particular, is a heavy consumer of water: it takes some 5, 000 liters of water to produce 1 kg of rice.
The damage to cars from floods can be extensive depending on the water level, length of time in the water and type of water including contaminants, consumer advocates say.
As for increased use of water metering, the consumer body described the concept as fair but stopped short of supporting the compulsory installation of meters across the whole of England and Wales.
"Without the high increases in complaints to Southern Water, Anglian Water and South East Water, figures for the industry overall would have dropped, " said Dame Yve Buckland, chairperson of the Consumer Council for Water.
"Users clearly expect that they should be able to move their content and applications freely at home, at work, in the classroom, and on the go, " said Joe Van De Water, Director of Consumer Product Marketing at Intel.
The Consumer Council for Water has expressed concern about how levels will be maintained alongside future housing developments across the region.
The Consumer Council for Water said Southern Water also had an "unacceptable" number of sewerage service complaints which were not immediately resolved.
However, the Consumer Council for Water, a watchdog which represents customers, suggested that this inflation link had allowed companies to make excessive returns.
But since Egypt, the biggest and most influential consumer of Nile water, is distracted by revolutionary upheaval at home, this may be changing.
The Consumer Council for Water (CC Water), an independent body representing the interests of consumers, warns that it is low income customers that are really feeling the pinch.
The Consumer Council for Water South West (CCWater South West) said the rebate was good for customer relations, but consumers were still paying a "disproportionate" price for water services.
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"We recognise that some price increases may be necessary to enable companies to meet the pressures being put on water companies from growing populations, climate change, and tighter EU and UK standards, " said Dame Yve Buckland, Chair of the Consumer Council for Water.
It operates through four segments, namely Specialty Ingredients, Water Technologies, Performance Materials and Consumer Markets.
Although primarily produced for industrial use, the water is purified to drinking-quality using dual membrane microfiltration and reverse osmosis technologies, and marketed as bottled water for human consumption under the consumer brand NEWater.
And another 50-60% in consumer use, in people using water to wash clothes, for example.
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The consumer surplus of my getting clean water for less than that price is the difference between the two prices.
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The pay rise attracted criticism from various consumer groups, including the National Campaign for Water Justice.
As China's consumer class grows, already-scarce resources like water and petroleum may soon buckle under all of this shopping.
Earlier this year, Coca-Cola was sued by a consumer group over health claims made for its Vitamin Water brand.
Allegedly our telecoms, energy and water supplies are overseen by state regulatory bodies to ensure that the consumer is not being ripped off and that necessary industry investment takes place.
"We're really pushing for a consumer's right to know what's in their water, " says Nneka Leiba, an environmental health researcher at the EWG.
The small amount of energy and water needed to grow the vegetables, and the close proximity to the consumer, means that C02 emitted in production and transportation is kept to a minimum.
Of course selling a fridge once or twice in the lifetime of a consumer is not the high recurrence business model of sugar-water vendors targeting impressionable children and exploiting their apetite for sugar and instant gratification.
Just because March's consumer credit figures blew Wall Street's forecasts out of the water doesn't mean the fact that U.S. consumers are borrowing more is all bad news.
British experts, tasting an array of expensive bottled waters for a consumer magazine, awarded top marks to a humble sample of tap water from Thames Water, a less-than-fashionable utility.
UFC, a consumer group, because of alleged lies on the labels of its Vittel water bottles.
In a water-starved country like India, this product makes sense both for the environment and the consumer.
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