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

That's what I do.
I mean, it's very vague, but I don't see why not.

ETA. The hose technically isn't attached, it's just stuffed in and open, iyswim.

I got the notification about this and I’ll just be ignoring it. Our garden isn’t overlooked so who’s going to know anyway? 🤷‍♀️ Thing is, our garden isn’t huge and it’s mostly patio with pot plants. If I just fill a watering can, I’ll just use the same amount of water anyway. If I use the hose, I don’t have to drag around a heavy can.

So you could effectively attach the watering can to the hosepipe and water as normal?

During a hosepipe ban, you are permitted to fill a watering can or bucket with a hosepipe...funny how that is rarely mentioned.

I normally leave the hose running into the watering can. It's a bit cumbersome, but it saves lugging a full can/bucket around.

As soon as the water goes in, it comes straight out again. No spillage or waste.

You have to have abstraction licences from the Environment Agency. It’s a tightly controlled thing and there a lot of restrictions and hoops to jump through. And somewhere to abstract from!

We have back up tanks but the water pressure is so low right not they hadn’t filled up. The water pressure is even lower today because they’ve announced a hosepipe ban in our area….tomorrow. So everyone must be filling their pools today!

I did wonder if that was possible because it would make so much more sense for everyone to have a garden tap that’s not drinking water.

It’s a shame that we only have the one water supply. In most ‘hot’ countries, they have a binary system where ‘brown water (untreated) can be access to water lawns etc without impacting the clean water supply that runs separately. Means the water being sprinkled on the lawns and golf courses at night can be a bit -erm - pungent but gardens (and associated wildlife) are protected.

Sadly, given we don’t seem to be able to maintain the system we’ve got efficiently, I can’t see something similar being rolled out here, though it would ideal as I assume that it could potentially be used to for industrial cooling (with some sort of filter system) there by leaving the clean water supply for residential use.

Leeds-Liverpool. To be honest…farmers have a hard enough time, they don’t need me sticking my nose in. I was just curious.

Whose canal is it? Some farms dig their own irrigation channels specifically for this reason.

If they are pumping out of the Grand Union, I'd check with the Canal & Rivers Trust (if in England and Wales)

Out of interest, and this is a genuine question not a criticism. A farm by us this morning was pumping water out of the canal to irrigate a field, is that a standard thing?

Watering cans are fine, it's these idiots who obsessively water grass; absolutely no need.

I think so. I’ve declared myself as needing the priority service last night , I do have a diagnosed physical condition which affects all my connective tissue so affects mobility. Water company emailed me this morning saying I’m now on the register.

followed by an email to all ten minutes later saying there’s now a hosepipe ban and that anyone registered with the priority service doesn’t have to comply!

Yes, just tick the ‘medical’ condition option. They don’t actually ask for any evidence.

Hi I'm in Cardiff no hosepipe ban yet but I'm not complying.
10000s of new homes built huge increase in population but no extra reservoirs.
Cast all your minds back to the wettest months on record every year yet we are told no water!
Welsh water want to increase my bill to pay off fines for their dumping sewage in rivers & pay the ceo a huge salary. Il stop using the hosepipe when the MPs stop filling their full size swimming pools

What counts as diagnosed? The GP referred me to podiatrist for plantar and arthritis which stop me marching about with many watering cans. Does that count.

How do you water your garden with bath water? My bath is upstairs. I cannot walk down the stairs carrying bath water 100 times to water my plants

Plants are important. All my neighbours have large wonderful gardens full of fruit trees, shrubs etc which supports the wild life. We need to give our gardens alive. I don’t have grass really. I have meadow so will keep watering as it’s full of little creatures which depends on it.

You do realise for around 3 months this year we were in a drought situation? I think water for drinking is more important than water for someones lawn.

I can't water my patio garden or terrace without the hose. Not at the moment anyway as I pulled my back out. I mean I could use a 4 pint milk carton but it would take dozens of movement from bathroom to outside.

But the hose is attached to garden tap which we hoisted up so it can do up and downstairs at the same time.

I would forgo a shower myself before I'd let my plants die.

I agree about making changes where we can. I use public transport when I can. Our solar panels have paid for themselves, But I drink milk and eat cheese, so shoot me.

Why don't you?

Its not a race to the bottom, we make the changes we can, and some of those offset the ones we can't

We are having solar panels installed this month, because we can finally afford to. We will be unlikely to make our money back, but its not about that - we are doing it because its good for the environment not to save a shedload of money

No, just a double post?

Why are you making it weird? You can see what the pre edit was, and I put a comment to say what it was

I think this is yours -

The water companies can fuck off. I dont want to come across as a batshit crazy conspiracy theorist, but we need to stop being fucking sheep and just doing as we are told and getting angry when others dont.

Common sense needs to prevail, ive got a hosepipe with a gun attachment - so im not wasting any water by watering my plants with a hosepipe over a watering can.

In our area you can use a drip system even with the ban. I've just tested it as I've not used it for a while and it's in need of TLC so it looks like I shall be using the watering can.

Goodness, the whataboutery on this thread is ridiculous.

And 1976 was when phrases like 'save water bath with a friend' came from.😀 During that drought the water companies reduced the mains pressure, we had pretty much zero water pressure so running a hose was impossible anyway only a trickle out of the taps! They were incompetent then too, no one cared because it was just a job and they got paid whether they did a good job or not.

Also most people didn't shower once or twice a day back then.