Hosepipe ban Options

[bonnie]

Perhaps a hosepipe ban should be enforced November-January,then the rain,which seems to fall almost non-stop once the ban is in place, will be over in time for the Spring.

[Simon Kirby]

Perhaps a hosepipe ban should be enforced November-January,then the rain,which seems to fall almost non-stop once the ban is in place, will be over in time for the Spring.

[Darren]

I've found a sure-fire way around the hosepipe ban.

Just leave your garden outside

[Biker1]

Heavy showers just run off the hard ground and into storm drains, so don't replenish aquifers. Apparently.

Heavy showers??

It's rained all day!!

[Biker1]

No, I think its the right sort sure enough, but it's getting a little late. Once spring is on the way what rain does fall tends to evaporate in the warm weather and get transpired by growing plants before it has much of a chance to soak down deeply into the ground and join the aquifier, but while the weather is currently cool and the rain is consistent and moderate it will help, but it will need to rain like this for the next six weeks to make much of an impact.

Warm weather??

It's bloody freezing!

[Simon Kirby]

Warm weather??

It's bloody freezing!

Which from the hose-pipe-ban point of view is good news because ordinarily (if there is such a thing with English weather) April would be quite a warm sunny month and those April showers would ordinarily evaporate and be snapped up by thirsty plants, but while the weather is cold and gray the rain still has a chance to soak down.

[Biker1]

OK come on, who was it, own up now, ........who prayed for rain??

[NORTHENDER]

Must be the wettest drought in history. I have been deprived of my game of golf for over a week now as the course is one giant water hazard and the course is closed

[Nothing Much]

I am sure there has been one watering hole open. Still one shouldn't drink and drive..." FORE". hic.
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[gel]

Will Thames Water be showing us all a credit on our annual bills in view of their

• failure to supply as per normal service levels
• be forced to up their game regards investing (their money, not ours) in the failing infrastructure,
  rather than use their revenue as a cash cow for investors (foreign, as is the case with many
  of our utilities)
• lamentable (slow) speed many of us have witnessed re getting round to fixing leaks,
  bearing in mind too that household use is a tiny % of total usage

[Biker1]

Will Thames Water be showing us all a credit on our annual bills in view of their

• failure to supply as per normal service levels
• be forced to up their game regards investing (their money, not ours) in the failing infrastructure,
  rather than use their revenue as a cash cow for investors (foreign, as is the case with many
  of our utilities)
• lamentable (slow) speed many of us have witnessed re getting round to fixing leaks,
  bearing in mind too that household use is a tiny % of total usage

And failure to collect all this wet stuff falling out of the sky which we are told will make no difference as it just runs off the land, into the rivers and back to the sea?

[spartacus]

And failure to collect all this wet stuff falling out of the sky which we are told will make no difference as it just runs off the land, into the rivers and back to the sea?

THAT is the tragedy... Washed all out to sea....
Countries that have far less rainfall than us manage their water collection so they don't have to call hosepipe bans every year. Relying on slow seepage down to the aquifers when so much of the ground above is covered with roads, houses, driveways, blockpaving is just crazy. Give it a few years and we'll have to rethink how we use water. Pottable water used to flush the toilets?

The wrong type of rain...

[Nothing Much]

Flushing good water down the drain?

HMMM. An elderly neighbour has passed on at about 101 . She was fiercely independant.
In the end her carers decided enough was enough. No indoor "facilities". An earth closet round the side.

Jaycakes knows my view of watering the roses after dark but there is a limit.

I have had to (possibly mentioned this before) register site and space of a septic tank . Another EU directive.
How long before there is a tax on outflow to your own .3 of a rood. (Poles and Perches are not involved.)
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[Andy Capp]

To be honest it's crap we've had almost torrential levels of rainfall every day for the last 2 weeks.

At least it keeps Newbury's muggers and murderers off the street!

[NWNREADER]

At least it keeps Newbury's muggers and murderers off the street!

Until we get a roof over the Parkway development - then they will have a safe haven 24/7/52.......

[Cognosco]

Until we get a roof over the Parkway development - then they will have a safe haven 24/7/52.......

Are you suggesting we mistreat our poor muggers murderers etc?

What about their human rights?

[Guest_jaycakes_*]

Murderers are people too. As are cabbages.

At least it keeps Newbury's muggers and murderers off the street!

They just hide popular shopping outlets know, behind the "in season" sections.

[Baffers100]

Oh dear, what a day to decide to join the forum I have been enjoying reading on my lunch break!

Back on topic, hose ban= pain in the ****.
Neighbours who are clearly above the ban= even more so!

[Newbelly]

Looks like some appropriate action has been taken by admin on the board today!

BOT:

I have an app on my iPad which charts my water/electric/gas usage (I enter readings monthly) and it works out alll sorts of clever things. What I note is that my water usage changes very little from summer to winter months, perhaps demonstrating that it is showers and loo-flushing that cause my demand, not the garden. I heard on the radio that a hosepipe ban saves 5 - 10% of domestic use - not a huge amount then.

[Mugwump00]

I'm not going to actually read this crap - I just wanted to know if Thames Water had fallen on its sword. Ha, as if...

Isn't that a matter for that horrible clinic with the stern doctor, the 'orrible nurse with the 'orrible cotton-buds and that weewee-speakeasy business (or so I've heard)?