Hosepipe Ban - Turns my urine to steam or *%*$ happens?
Discussion
Short of a tsunami covering the south east it looks like were in for a dead garden, empty pool, dirty car, filthy bike and pretty much if your business is anything to do with gardening you may as well torch the gaff now!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9183750...
This got me thinking, with all our rip off utilities making serious bucks is this course of action acceptable? I appreciate that nobody can control the weather, however how many f
king years have we heard this is a strong possibility every st summer we get! Its starting to boil my p*ss to a state of superheated hydrocloric acid. The water companies have been making mega profits each year and I suspect a good proportion of this could of been avoided by investing in infrastructure such as non fking leaky pipework, water fking de-salinisation plants in the ing south east and shock horror piping mother fking water from the fking north of the country where they have to fking much to the goddamn south east.
Then it now appears that if you are a and grass up your neighbours for pi5$ing water over your garden to save your fking expensive plants your going to be fine 1 fking thousand pounds. How much ing money can I fine the water company for yet again failing to for see the fking obvious.
I guess my current question is - how the fk do the middle east manage when the sun shines every fking day, they don't have pi##ing drain filled fking reservoirs but still manage to fking pi*$s water to the tune of millions of gallons a day at the fking water park or watering the grass or even washing down the fking wking fking concrete!
Please don't come back and say the middle east are prepared for it as I've heard the same thing since I was wearing a fking nappy, we should be prepared for it, not now stuck with no water like a bunch of s.
Is it just me or is anyone else sick to death excuses by these compainies run by total fking wkers. I fking am!
I'm off to relax now by sticking pins in my eyes.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9183750...
This got me thinking, with all our rip off utilities making serious bucks is this course of action acceptable? I appreciate that nobody can control the weather, however how many f
king years have we heard this is a strong possibility every st summer we get! Its starting to boil my p*ss to a state of superheated hydrocloric acid. The water companies have been making mega profits each year and I suspect a good proportion of this could of been avoided by investing in infrastructure such as non fking leaky pipework, water fking de-salinisation plants in the ing south east and shock horror piping mother fking water from the fking north of the country where they have to fking much to the goddamn south east.Then it now appears that if you are a
and grass up your neighbours for pi5$ing water over your garden to save your fking expensive plants your going to be fine 1 fking thousand pounds. How much ing money can I fine the water company for yet again failing to for see the fking obvious.I guess my current question is - how the f
k do the middle east manage when the sun shines every fking day, they don't have pi##ing drain filled fking reservoirs but still manage to fking pi*$s water to the tune of millions of gallons a day at the fking water park or watering the grass or even washing down the fking wking fking concrete!Please don't come back and say the middle east are prepared for it as I've heard the same thing since I was wearing a f
king nappy, we should be prepared for it, not now stuck with no water like a bunch of s.Is it just me or is anyone else sick to death excuses by these compainies run by total f
king wkers. I fking am!I'm off to relax now by sticking pins in my eyes.
Edited by Four Litre on Wednesday 4th April 22:06
catso said:
Always amazes me that we can have so called water shortages, we live on a small island surrounded by water and have rivers that pour millions of gallons of the stuff into the sea every day FFS. 
If you mean the ocean its salty and takes considerable processing before it's fit for human consumptionPlus it's been pissing it down here for the last 24 hours...
We're not good at catching or distributing water because historically we haven't really needed to. Now that we have greater water demands we also have a disparate privatised water system where everyone says it is too expensive to do the investment required to start capturing and distributing water around the country.
It's always someone else's responsibility it seems. Who'd have thought that the companies running the water distribution might have to make major capital infrastructure investments and work together to supply water nationally?
Water privatisation, what a great idea.
It's always someone else's responsibility it seems. Who'd have thought that the companies running the water distribution might have to make major capital infrastructure investments and work together to supply water nationally?
Water privatisation, what a great idea.
I can't work out why Blue Badge holders (disabled) are exempt from the ban. I can only assume there's something in a Motability contract to keep your vehicle clean!
It's ridiculous - my Mum is a blue badge holder, which entitles her to water her garden with a hosepipe and my Dad to wash his car...both of them take twice as long as I would to do the same task, therefore using more water.
Oh and giving notice of when the ban comes in meant all the neighbours were out jet washing patios/driveways/paths etc last week...right, so let's just use up what bit of water we have got....
How does that help in a drought?!
Seriously confused!
It's ridiculous - my Mum is a blue badge holder, which entitles her to water her garden with a hosepipe and my Dad to wash his car...both of them take twice as long as I would to do the same task, therefore using more water.
Oh and giving notice of when the ban comes in meant all the neighbours were out jet washing patios/driveways/paths etc last week...right, so let's just use up what bit of water we have got....
How does that help in a drought?!
Seriously confused!
Edited by Migsy on Wednesday 4th April 22:51
It is all about profit. The water boards still sell more than enough water, so why would they want to spend their profit on reservoirs or anything like that?
Maybe it is time the great unwashed invested in a few large tanks that fill from their roof gutters, and overflow when full? They would be self cleaning, as any water entering would swill over into the normal drain.
Come times of drought, you could use a bucket, bowl, tea cup, watering can, whatever, to wet your garden or wash your car. Just as long as it isn't a hose pipe.
And for anybody who asks why they should have to do that, just for a couple of weeks shortage a year, then you know just what the water board feels like.
Maybe it is time the great unwashed invested in a few large tanks that fill from their roof gutters, and overflow when full? They would be self cleaning, as any water entering would swill over into the normal drain.
Come times of drought, you could use a bucket, bowl, tea cup, watering can, whatever, to wet your garden or wash your car. Just as long as it isn't a hose pipe.
And for anybody who asks why they should have to do that, just for a couple of weeks shortage a year, then you know just what the water board feels like.
Exemption - it's ok to use hosepipe to remove graffiti
but not water a lovely green (soon to be yellow and dead) area.
Water companies are urging neighbours to grass on residents they see using a hosepipe.
What a lovely cohesive 'big' society we live in.
Ah well, plenty of excercise for me coming up
...lugging bucket after bucket after bucket of water to clean the car (more regularly now), the windows, the lawn, the flowers, the shrubs, the newly bought Pussy Willow, the new plants, the hanging baskets, the garage door to clean the bird ste off, clean the patio, top the pond up, keep the water butts brim full, keep the washer bottle brim full...
hosepipe ban... you know it makes sense!
but not water a lovely green (soon to be yellow and dead) area.
Water companies are urging neighbours to grass on residents they see using a hosepipe.
What a lovely cohesive 'big' society we live in.
Ah well, plenty of excercise for me coming up
...lugging bucket after bucket after bucket of water to clean the car (more regularly now), the windows, the lawn, the flowers, the shrubs, the newly bought Pussy Willow, the new plants, the hanging baskets, the garage door to clean the bird s
te off, clean the patio, top the pond up, keep the water butts brim full, keep the washer bottle brim full...hosepipe ban... you know it makes sense!
chris1roll said:
IMHO, the supply of water, being that basic tenet of all life on earth, should not be profit driven.
Absolutely correct.Anyway, some bumkin fermer dug through the watermain today in the 'carse. Great, no water all day, weird how you suddenly miss the tinkle from the taps on demand.....so we get pressure back and then some 6 hours later they must have removed the diverter and reconnected main flow on because we now have brown water [with dropping sediment] as our mains supply.......but it's perfectly fit for consumption says the water board....had to throw tons down the house drains until it ran clear [ish] again, hope the boiler etc won't be too badly affected....
Instead of investing a bucketload of money on fixing leaks and increasing storage capacity, our water industry spent it all on conforming to EU water purity directives that were overly stringent - we already had fairly clena water. A pittance got spent on replacing the pipes (and everyone complains about those roadworks anyway), and nothing on increasing capacity.
But as ever our political elite and over-zealous bureaucrats directed the water utilities to put the money on clean water - so at least oyu knwo that, with practically no one having suffered from bad water in the UK beforehand, now you can fill your watering cans and flush your toilets with some of the cleanest water in Europe.
But as ever our political elite and over-zealous bureaucrats directed the water utilities to put the money on clean water - so at least oyu knwo that, with practically no one having suffered from bad water in the UK beforehand, now you can fill your watering cans and flush your toilets with some of the cleanest water in Europe.
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