AIBU to be angry about hosepipe bans and whether people will comply?

No new reservoir has been built since the 1990s, but we have hundreds of thousands of new houses.

We have two standard water butts and a 1000 litre IBC in our garden for watering the garden.

i dont have a hose but i would not use it in a hose pipe ban.
plant your garden with drought resistant plants, dont bury your head in the sand regarding climate change and lack of rain

We need to plant for the climate that is coming in, not the climate we used to have. I changed up my front garden which is south facing to med style planting last year, and I haven't watered it once this year. It's thriving and absolutely full of insects.

We're similar, 4 water butts for the garden, don't water the lawn (and don't cut it short), basin to run the tap into if we need hot water so the run off can be used in cooking, to make a cuppa, to water the garden etc. Washing machine run off is used to clean sinks or wash windows.

We lived in Australia for years, and experienced proper drought conditions so will not waste water if we can help it.

you can use a small jug?
this is how some people get round it who cannot manage a watering can

I won’t comply and won’t feel bad about it at all. As others said, why should I let my garden die and forgo the paddling pool when it’s down to pure mismanagement and incompetence on the part of the water companies. The UK has more than enough rain throughout the year that this shouldn’t be an issue.

I remember reading starmer had approved the use of something we shoot into the sky to reflect the sun away its temporary and would solve part of this issue why are we not using it?

I'm about a mile outside the Southern Water ban area, but it doesn't matter.

I had a grey water system installed a few years ago. We have a manual switch that sends all the shower and basin water into our water butts. That's about 75 litres a day which is easily enough for our veggies beds, greenhouse, pots and borders. I switch it over in spring (March this year) and back in October. It saves me about £250 a year.

Water companies seem to be managed by greedy selfish incompetent idiots so I'll deal with our water usage myself.

Ive applied for an exemption and got added to their priority user list but no mention in the letter about any exemption. I cant use a watering can due to disability. We dont have a lawn or pool, its watering my plants that I use it for. I wont comply as I cant.

Not sure about your pension but my company pension I can chose how I want the funds invested

You will need to use Google and talk to your pension provider.

We had a water leak on our lane, thousands and thousands of gallons pouring down the drain for months on end before they came to fix it. They can shove their hosepipe bans, I will continue to use the water I pay for and will not be inconveniencing myself due to their appalling mismanagement and incompetence.

Done alot of water saving myself but it just seems to enable the companies not to supply/invest etc. They need to use the profits to improve things - not pay shareholders. They shouldn't be allowed to extract water and should be forced to build water storage facilities!

I’d be more inclined to comply if they sorted their bloody leaks out and kept our seas clean

I use the grey waste water from washing up to water my garden. As a previous poster said it takes a while but it's keeping me fit!

Such mismanagement.
its basically rained for
months.

fill the water butt up with your hosepipe today

Of course. You absolutely can self-invest your own pension and choose what it's invested in if you want.

Trees int he countryside don't get watered and manage absolutely fine.

The hose pipe ban doesn't impact them and hasn't for thousands of years

Are you seriously saying water a tree in your garden is more important than people having access to safe drinking water without supply interruptions or issues?

You really think the government would have invested more in water supply? Given all the cuts in everything else? And that they're driving through their building schemes despite being told water supply will be an issue? No chance.

I read a lot of official documents about this when Corbyn had renationalisation in his manifesto and actually changed my view. A pp is right that most people are shareholders in the water companies via their pension.

There is a low supply where I live, last night some people didn’t have any water on our road for a few hours, we’ve had a hosepipe ban since 23rd June.
my next door neighbour is always out with his hose, watering his grass, washing his car, washing his shitty driveway, washing whatever he can find, he’s a selfish idiot.

I do actually have waterbutts 6 in fact.

Food crops are exempt which is a lot of our garden so my only naughty would be topping up the pool.

Which I guess I could do with the watering can since the taps next to the pool 😅