Hosepipe ban Options

[Penelope]

With a ban on hosepipes on the way, how will effect you?

[blackdog]

A selfish few will continue to use hosepipes on the assumption that they won't get fined. Simple solution - fine people for having green lawns or clean cars.

It's really about whether you think that hosing down you car are keeping your lawn neatly green is more important than having water coming out of your taps. If it comes to it it wouldn't be the first time that a drought resulted in the water supply being restricted to standpipes in the street (no doubt xj will attach a hose to the standpipe to wash his car ).

[Brewmaster]

A selfish few will continue to use hosepipes on the assumption that they won't get fined. Simple solution - fine people for having green lawns or clean cars.

It's really about whether you think that hosing down you car are keeping your lawn neatly green is more important than having water coming out of your taps.

Good sense, as we have come to expect from you, Blackdog.

I never water the lawn (the bloody thing grows fast enough without it!) and rarely clean the car. Does it go any faster, run more economically, or rust less quickly if it is dirty? A bucketful of soapy water and a sponge, with another bucketful for rinsing, should be enough for any reasonable person.

We have taken to syphoning the bathwater into water butts for watering the garden, but we have a very large one and we grow lots of vegetables, so I reserve the right to use the hosepipe judiciously rather than see plants producing food die.

But, in view of my previous post, I shall have to do it at night!