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Apr 9 2012, 05:19 PM
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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Apr 9 2012, 12:07 PM) You didn't previously say that you would 'use' the water first. Read my post - no. 99 - again. I said 'Using a hosepipe to syphon water out of a domestic bath is surely OK'. Surely that assumes that it has been used it to bath in. Or are you suggesting that I would fill the bath from the tap just so that I could syphon the water out onto the garden by hosepipe? Hey, that's an idea!
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Apr 9 2012, 06:51 PM
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QUOTE (Brewmaster @ Apr 9 2012, 06:19 PM) Read my post - no. 99 - again. I said 'Using a hosepipe to syphon water out of a domestic bath is surely OK'. Surely that assumes that it has been used it to bath in. Or are you suggesting that I would fill the bath from the tap just so that I could syphon the water out onto the garden by hosepipe? Hey, that's an idea! Exactly, and that is one reason you might still be in breach of a hosepipe ban.
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Apr 9 2012, 07:41 PM
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QUOTE (Exhausted @ Apr 9 2012, 03:25 PM) I just hope that if the reporters started the Benyon Watergate they get screwed to the ground. I know the newspapers need to sell their papers but this really is scraping the barrel. Do we really believe that the Englefield estate would leave a hose running even when there are no water restrictions. People who work in that environment are professionals either estate or house servants unless one of them had a grudge and turned on the hose and then for a couple of bob rang the People. Anyway, as the house has a borehole and probably treats its own waste water it really is academic. I guess it was to be expected and I'm sure that the water vigilantes will come out in force rioting and smashing up greenhouses and making off with the produce.................. Yes. I don't know if I believe this particular story, but the way all MP's seem to put themselves on a pedestal these days, nothing would surprise me about them feeling they (and their minions) are exempt.
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Apr 10 2012, 12:05 AM
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Well after a night of driving around my car is dirtier than a hotel in a back street in the middle east and my wheels are especially caked. Depending on what time I wake up I will try to wash with a bucket. Oh the joys. Luckily I bought from a car show a silly little pump-pressure sprayer which I can use to help rinse off suds afterwards but it's still an awful lot of trouble. The joke is the bloody polish people up the road can use it to charge people £3.00 for a car wash. I would just get them to do mine but a) I've never paid for someone else to wash my car and they would remove all my wax and polish and no doubt leave a whole load of swirl marks and I'd need to machine polish the motor again. Am I right in thinking if you are say a part time car detailer (eg you do it at the weekends for people who pay you money) you can use their water supply if you are charging them in a business nature?
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Apr 11 2012, 12:48 PM
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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Apr 9 2012, 06:51 PM) Exactly, and that is one reason you might still be in breach of a hosepipe ban. I don't think so. Once the water has been run into the bath - whether used for bathing or not - it is no longer regarded as potable water. It becomes - by virtue of having left the mains - 'grey water'. This is the reason that your kitchen's cold tap should come directly off the main supply and not from the cold water tank in the attic. Similarly, in theory, you could water your garden with a hose from the hot tap...
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Apr 12 2012, 06:46 PM
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QUOTE (Ruwan Uduwerage-Perera @ Apr 9 2012, 11:46 AM) Has Richard Benyon MP & the Minister for Water had a 'Clinton! moment when he stated "Neither I, nor my family, nor anyone who works for me turned that hose on”? I think the "Clinton moment" may soon be for the journalist. An anti-Tory showbiz hack who decided to call in on a bank holiday to discuss the hosepipe ban? Maybe Ladbrokes are conducting their own investigation into betting patterns on this.
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Apr 12 2012, 07:13 PM
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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Apr 12 2012, 07:56 PM) I wonder if us 'mere mortals' would be treated the same if one of our 'friends' or neighbours decided to play a 'prank' on us and turn the tap on of a connected hose pipe? I suggest then that all hose pipes should be packet out of harms way; they are not necessary at the moment. Exactly. The story could not have been about wasting water, for the "journalist" (by his own admission) stood by and watched the hose run for two hours. Did he not think to turn off the tap?
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Apr 12 2012, 08:29 PM
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QUOTE (Vodabury @ Apr 12 2012, 08:13 PM) Exactly. The story could not have been about wasting water, for the "journalist" (by his own admission) stood by and watched the hose run for two hours. Did he not think to turn off the tap? It would seem it wasn't about wasting water as such, more the potentially illegal use of it.
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Apr 12 2012, 08:43 PM
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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Apr 12 2012, 09:29 PM) It would seem it wasn't about wasting water as such, more the potentially illegal use of it. But as the estate has its own borehole there was no illegal use. And Thames Water have confirmed this.
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Apr 12 2012, 08:50 PM
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QUOTE (Vodabury @ Apr 12 2012, 09:43 PM) But as the estate has its own borehole there was no illegal use. And Thames Water have confirmed this. That is why I used the word potentially. It does raise the question why they tuned it off if they were not doing anything wrong?
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Apr 13 2012, 08:11 AM
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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Apr 12 2012, 09:50 PM) It does raise the question why they tuned it off if they were not doing anything wrong? I should imagine the Benyon household turned it off for the same reason they didn't turn it on in the first place.
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Apr 13 2012, 10:39 AM
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QUOTE (Vodabury @ Apr 12 2012, 09:43 PM) But as the estate has its own borehole there was no illegal use. And Thames Water have confirmed this. I don't understand the reasoning here. Surely taking water from an aquifer means someone somewhere else can't have it, especially if it's depleted.
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Apr 13 2012, 11:01 AM
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QUOTE (JeffG @ Apr 13 2012, 11:39 AM) Surely taking water from an aquifer means someone somewhere else can't have it, especially if it's depleted. It depends, but probably not. Aquifers are really big, like many tens of miles across, but the water in them is not terribly mobile, so drawing down the water table in one location doesn't greatly influence the water table in other locations (though it depends on what kind of ground it is) unless you're creating a really big gradient by pumping out millions of gallons. Mostly the ground water is just moving down the water table gradient until it emerges in a stream, and that journey can take many years (I know rivers rise when it rains, but that actual water might have fallen ten years ago and was effectively squeezed out of the aquifer by the weight of the rain joining the queue in the uplands) so to some degree if you don't use the ground water it isn't saved for someone else to use, it just flows out to sea.
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