Hosepipe ban Options

[Vodabury]

They say every little helps.

It certainly seems to help profits! When my kids are home, within 30 minutes of going out anywhere my daughter has to buy a bottle of water - otherwise she will become dehydrated (and it will be my fault if she does).

[RustySpade]

We are hosting a Garden Show and Dog Show just after the hosepipe ban comes in - with exhibitors needing to water their plants and a huge plunge pool for the dogs we are thrown into a bit of disarray regarding how to get water now

[Nothing Much]

Are you near a river at all? This is where the wartime spirit kicks in.

And I think the "Titchfield Thunderbolt" movie holds the answer.
Masses of people with buckets could fill a plunge pool.
It would be fun for children. Dogs too.
If you are not near a river. Ignore the post,but have a good day.
ce

[Guest_xjay1337_*]

We are hosting a Garden Show and Dog Show just after the hosepipe ban comes in - with exhibitors needing to water their plants and a huge plunge pool for the dogs we are thrown into a bit of disarray regarding how to get water now

Simple solution.
Use a hosepipe for the pool. Watering can for the Japanese Peace Lily's.

[blackdog]

Perhaps the dogs could do without a plunge pool on this occasion?

[Nothing Much]

Never quite got the hang of the problem..... Were the dogs going to be chucked into the pool?
Anyway I think you solved the problem. xjay .Ban \Dogs and children. (People too).Ignore the ban
Aux barricades, viva la revolution.
ce....
ps(wee on the plants after dark).

[Guest_xjay1337_*]

lol ce you make me laugh sometimes, wee on the plants...!

Perhaps the dogs could do without a plunge pool on this occasion?

First you stop the dogs having a good time, what's next, Dog Seatbelts, is that pleasure to go as well?

[Nothing Much]

lol ce you make me laugh sometimes, wee on the plants...! laugh.gif

Normal for Norfolk xjay.
Not good form in other places.
ce

[Nothing Much]

There was a plan sometime in the 1950s to fill the valley to the eastern side of Burghclere as a reservoir.
Piddling in a reservoir is not my cup of T xjay!

[Guest_xjay1337_*]

I assume you read the story where an American guy peed in a large reservoir and they DRAINED IT. So 5million plus litres of water, watered down with 300ml of urine. The guy could have weed AIDS out and it would have been completely safe!
In the UK at least I think all of the reservoirs are covered? Those being the actual drinking water ones.

Who am I to say. More reserviors are needed though. Less building hoses for Yugoslavians, more water.

[Nothing Much]

No problems xjay. As once mentioned I went to the wrong school(near Telford).
So I tend to be silly.Despite being quite ancient. I do have some anecdotes.
ce

[Vodabury]

I don't know whether or not there will be any hosepipe-ban prosecutions this coming summer. If you are saying you think there won't be any, then fine. But, sometimes things do change - we'll have to wait and see.

Looks like things might change?

Richard Aylard from Thames Water was interviewed on the radio this morning. He stated that although there were no prosecutions during the last hosepipe ban, households that were identified using hosepipes were sent warning letters. He was quite clear that this time round, if warnings are ignored, then they will seek to prosecute.

Perhaps prosecutions will be a last resort, as such actions may encourage renewed criticism as to the level of leakage in the infrastructure!

[Berkshirelad]

In the UK at least I think all of the reservoirs are covered? Those being the actual drinking water ones.

No, of course not. And there are no 'drinking water' ones.

Reservoirs are huge lakes for the most part; it would be impossible to cover them.

Water is drawn from the reservoir; purified and put into the water main.

[blackdog]

No, of course not. And there are no 'drinking water' ones.

Reservoirs are huge lakes for the most part; it would be impossible to cover them.

Water is drawn from the reservoir; purified and put into the water main.

Reservoirs account for very little of the water supply in the area under the hosepipe ban - most of the water comes from aquifers - which can, I guess, be viewed as underground/covered reservoirs.

What confuses me about the ban is that they gave notice of it - if water levels are worringly low now, they must have been so a month ago, so why not start the ban then and save a bit more water?

[betsy]

Just walked down to Thatcham Library this morning and saw a workman cleaning the tennis courts with a pressure washer. He had a hose coming from the hall filling up a wheelie bin. The water from the bin was then tfrd to his pressure washer via another hose using a compressor. Seems a complicated business. I assume he was beating the ban by filling up the bin with water and not connecting the washer striaght to the hose?

[Darren]

The guy could have weed AIDS out and it would have been completely safe!

Wow. 25 years+ on an still myths keep popping up.

[Vodabury]

Just walked down to Thatcham Library this morning and saw a workman cleaning the tennis courts with a pressure washer. He had a hose coming from the hall filling up a wheelie bin. The water from the bin was then tfrd to his pressure washer via another hose using a compressor. Seems a complicated business. I assume he was beating the ban by filling up the bin with water and not connecting the washer striaght to the hose?

Interesting. If he was using a hose from a tap to supply a pressure washer, albeit "via an interruption", I don't see how this gets round the ban. Under the Act now in force it prohibits a hose to be used for cleaning artificial outdoor surfaces. However, "business customers" who clean paths and patios as part of a service, are exempt.

[NORTHENDER]

Can anyone define "short hosepipe" for me please?

http://www.farminmypocket.co.uk/featured/the-hosepipe-ban

[Darren]

I now await the photos of Thames Water having the windows at their Vastern Road HQ washed...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/4899286.stm

[Guest_jaycakes_*]

I had to wash my car today.
Without a hosepipe. It took me much more effort, because I have to throw buckets of water over the car to rinse it first, then use another bucket to actually wash with my trusty mitt and autoglym stuff, and then another 3 or 4 buckets thrown over the car to rinse the suds off.

Now I do not count exact amounts of water but I'm pretty sure it would be not a considerable amount of extra water by using a hosepipe. Perhaps 10% extra, but in most cases I believe probably uses the same or less.

Now something like 35% of water is wasted by Thames Water due to leaks? Or whatever number it is.
If they didn't leak it all away I wouldn't not be allowed to use my hosepipe responsibly. And yet water rates for the reduction of water use remains the same or in many cases, is going up!!

Now tell me where that is fair.