Welcome to Newburytoday.co.uk’s message boards where you can have your say and share your views on any number of issues.
Anyone can read messages, but only registered users can post messages, reply to messages or create new topics. As part of the free and simple registration, you will be asked to read and conform to the house rules.
To register, click here ……Enjoy the debate. Newbury Today Forum > Categories > Random Rants
|
|
Hosepipe ban |
|
|
|
Mar 12 2012, 06:24 PM
|
Advanced Member
Group: Members
Posts: 2,945
Joined: 5-June 09
Member No.: 130
|
QUOTE (Strafin @ Mar 12 2012, 05:54 PM) If my electricity supplier annoys me, I can switch who supplies it without changing any equipment or the infrastructure. I don't know how that works but I wonder if it could be done with water? The electricity suppliers all use the same infrastructure - paying rental to whoever owns the bits they use to get their electricity to you. And they all buy electricity from generating companies to supply to you. In effect they are just the middle men doing sod all apart from collecting a profit from your payments. Of course most also generate electricity and/or manage the infrastructure in particular areas. To allow the various water companies to do the same they would have to build a national grid for water (a lot more difficult to move around than electricity). Of course, if they did have such a grid Thames could just buy in more water from Scottish Water and we wouldn't need a hosepipe ban.
|
|
|
|
Guest_xjay1337_*
|
Mar 12 2012, 07:33 PM
|
Guests
|
It will ruin my life. That's how I clean my car.
Clearly the water shortage isn't that desperate, or it would have a water ban now rather than in 2 months. What makes me laugh is you can still use as much water as you like, just not from a hosepipe...but you can use a hosepipe to fill a bucket up. Which makes no sense.
To be honest I will still probably use it. I only use it to rinse my car before and after washing. And the water which I don't use clearly goes back into the drainage system where it is recycled and used to grow ethnic peace flowers.
I imagine people in Africa, or Uganda, or Taiwan, crying.... when you ask them why? "Some people in England can not water their daffodils."
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 13 2012, 11:33 AM
|
Advanced Member
Group: Members
Posts: 1,863
Joined: 14-May 09
From: Newbury
Member No.: 41
|
QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Mar 13 2012, 09:41 AM) The problem seems regional (too many people in one area), rather than national, but I do agree that it's odd that we want to do so much but it seems we don't have enough water; Sandleford for instance! Whether or not there are more people living in one are of the UK than another may exacerbate the problem but what has not being addressed in the past, or now for that matter, is the fundmental fact that more rain falls in the north of the country which is not being transferred south in some way where it can be used. Couple that with the successive governments not financing the building of additional resevoirs in the south or constructing salination plants and behold there are hosepipe bans. This is a classic case of "lets ignore it cause it may rain tomorrow"
--------------------
Bloggo
|
|
|
|
Guest_xjay1337_*
|
Mar 13 2012, 11:40 AM
|
Guests
|
QUOTE (JeffG @ Mar 13 2012, 11:36 AM) I imagine the car cleaning people in Sainsbury's car park will be rubbing their hands with glee as (presumably) the car wash will be turned off. Anyone who lets the Sainsburys car wash people wash their car needs their heads testing...swirl mark city!! Oh for a fiver?!? Do it yourself lazy gits. Although yes a lot of money will be made from this no doubt. But sainsburys car wash will still work because it uses recycled rainwater
|
|
|
|
|
Mar 13 2012, 11:47 AM
|
Advanced Member
Group: Members
Posts: 3,762
Joined: 14-May 09
Member No.: 56
|
QUOTE (xjay1337 @ Mar 13 2012, 11:40 AM) But sainsburys car wash will still work because it uses recycled rainwater But if there was enough rainwater, there wouldn't need to be a hosepipe ban... And no, I don't use the car wash people, mainly because the car wash is cheaper.
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 User(s) are reading this topic (1 Guests and 0 Anonymous Users)
0 Members:
|
|