hosepipe ban, anyone else affected?

[doug boardley]

Well here in the wettest county in the wettest country in western europe, we are now issued with a hosepipe ban. Seems a bit strange as United Utilities loses about 462 million litres per day through leaking pipes. If anyone is caught they face a £1000 fine. I regularly pressure wash my hen house out and not sure wether this is allowed or not.
Are any of you subject to a hosepipe ban or got a ban looming?

 

[Dan]

Got a couple of places near us with a ban so I think it's around the corner for us too soon. Crazy really.

 

[CJ CERAMICS]

not only do they lose 462 litres per day due to leaks they have the cheek to say that they are doing a great job of water management and that their customers get the best possible service......which justifies salarys to the top executives of £900k. they have also isued a statement declaring a spending budget of £70 million over the next 2 years to further improve services? when questioned where the finances for this improvement is coming from......the answer from their profits?......so to sum up......waste a lot of water...tell customers not to use water or they will fine us....pay over the odds wages to those losing the water...still charge customers the same money for not using the water....then spend the our money to improve a service which in theory they can tell us not to use.....and they say the lunatics are inside the asylum??????

 

[bgatty68]

no ban here in Bucks but still wont be long before its enforced here as i just saw 2 arabs on camels passing over the dune outside my house:lol:

 

[doug boardley]

I don't think anybody would be using their garden sprinklers here today anyway....it's the lake district and it's pouring down

 

[DHTiling]

We never get hose pipe bans.. Keilder never runs dry..:lol:.. few yr back water was transported from here south to keep them in water..

 

[david campbell]

ditto the above!

never seen or heard of a hosepipe ban this far north!

 

[doug boardley]

just seen on local news, even if we have moderate/average rainfall for the summer, it'll be in force all summer!:yikes:

 

[paulyoung666]

We never get hose pipe bans.. Keilder never runs dry..:lol:.. few yr back water was transported from here south to keep them in water..

i remember seeing the convoy of wagons filling up just off the A66 between Sadberge and Stockton , must have been real desperate to do that :yikes:

 

[Dan]

I've never seen a tap run dry so why bring in bans so suddenly before anything actually happens?!

Doesn't make sense at all to me.

We're one of the wettest countries on the planet. We can stick a man on the moon, but we can't save a bit of the water somehow.

 

[Deleted member 9966]

I can't remember Stoke ever having a hosepipe ban, but it probably has. I had a letter from Severn Trent explaining that Tittesworth Reservoir (which services Stoke and surrounding areas) was low and that they were warning us now that they would be shipping in water from other companies and that it might taste odd. And they also notified us of water saving schemes.

I have 2 water butts full of rain or grey water. I always put the plug in the bath whilst I'm having a shower and fill the bath up with grey water (almost a bath full when 2 people have showers per day) and use that to water my plants and lawns. I also adopted the "if it's yellow, let it mellow, if it's brown, flush it down" on all the loo's in the house (unless we have visitors coming round ).

and we also have a leaking gutter corner on the house, so a big old black waste bin is situated under the leak so it fills up every time it rains :hurray:

If we get a hosepipe ban in Stoke, I'll wash my car with dirty bathwater if I have to. Dishwasher is AAA rated so best efficiency I could afford. I even empty the water out of the condensor tumble dryer and water the house plants with it

So I'm doing my bit

 

[mikethetile]

no wonder theres a shortage, liz is stockpiling it:lol:

 

[Deleted member 9966]

no wonder theres a shortage, liz is stockpiling it:lol:

I'm using what I pay for

 

[CJ CERAMICS]

decided to confuse united utilities.......cant water the garden using a hosepipe, but can if i use a watering can........so decided to use the hose pipe to fill the watering can.

 

[richard Kent]

Not that I know of.
My neighbours tend to use my garden tap at the front of the house as I don't have a water meter and they all do.