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

How does the switch divert the water?

Not sure if you were answered - but you pop onto the website and register yourself as a priority user. If you have a blue badge you would declare it here, but so long as you are diagnosed you can declare it there. Did it this afternoon as not only does it mean our household would be exempt from a ban, but apparently they will bring bottled water to our home if there is an outage.

Farming animals is a massive drain (and waste) on water resources. I’d be well annoyed if you asked that of me.

We haven’t yet run out this year - got really close though! Thankfully we’ve had some rain in between the roasting bits.
I think most people massively underestimate how much water they use when watering and overestimate how much they think a 100l water butt can hold, then complain that water butts are pointless! 🙄

They system was a bit fiddly to set up and there are things we’d change about it if starting from scratch now, but it works and that’s the main thing. It also saves us loads on our water bill as we realised that most of the water from the hose isn’t actually used by the plants so we were basically pouring cash away.

Another bonus is that in this weather we don’t have to get hot & bothered wandering round the garden in the heat with a hosepipe! Sitting back in the garden with a G&T listening to the neighbours getting cross about dragging the hose around makes the initial effort and expense seem worthwhile.😂

My beautiful garden is dying, all the money and love that I’ve invested on plants and trees is going to fail. I will leave the lawn to go brown as it will recover, but I’m not going to let my newly planted trees and plants die, we need these for biodiversity. I have a big garden and I can’t carry a heavy watering can as I have arthritis so i will use a hose. (Maybe I can get an exemption I’m not sure?) I have a huge water butt and I’m mindful with water elsewhere but sometimes this mentality that we can all just use a watering can is not practical. I live in the southeast and we have had endless problems with weeks of no water. So I like many others feel slightly rebellious and angry to be honest. They are not reinvesting, they are not fixing leaks they are only paying dividends to the rig ineffectual shareholders and they continue to build. It needs to be nationalised and if we all comply the real problem is being masked.

I will keep using it regardless. The water companies have spent decades giving money to their shareholders rather than updating their infrastructure. They are consistently polluting the waterways and are upping bills to keep paying their Directors etc even more money. No doubt they will ensure the data centres are not short of water. So I will use what I want.

As I said, Severn Trent have no hosepipe ban anyway, so I will keep on using it.

You have never heard of desalination then?

We can absolutely use seawater for human consumption through desalination. In fact, millions of people worldwide rely on it daily for their drinking water, especially in arid coastal regions like the Middle East and parts of Australia.

You're spot on about housing, and other building, too.

They built a supermarket and an industrial estate at the lowest point in the town where I live, which is alongside a river. The land used to be water meadows, and the first time we had a very wet autumn, the river came over its banks. Where it would have been soaked up by the water meadows, it just poured across the supermarket car park and industrial estate, and flooded 800 homes.

A couple of years later, they spent a small fortune on flood defences.

I am disabled, and I am on the priority register. I will for the most part avoid using hosepipes and my water usage is generally low.
However excess heat is very dangerous for me personally. The coolest room I have is currently, at 11pm, 27c. I do all the right things with covering windows, shutting the sun out and reducing solar gain when it's warmer outside, then opening everything up and setting up air flow throughout the building when it's cooler.
I do have one of the metal frame above ground pools, and I will keep topping it up. In this heat I'm in the pool any time I'm not at work or sleeping.
My only other alternative would be to have air-conditioning installed, and ignoring the price of installation plus running costs, until recently, I've seen the pool as less costly to the environment, but if we're now going to be getting heatwaves from May to what, October? I'm seriously looking at air to air heat pumps (with solar panels)

Auto pots are good for running off a water butt. It’s how I do my chilli poly tunnel.

Sorry it posted my message twice.

I’m exempt from hosepipe bans. It’s worth looking into if you have a physical disability. Where I am If you have a mobility condition where carrying cans and containers would cause you physical difficulties then you can get an exemption.

It’s always amusing when the neighbours get all irate and put complaints in about me because they think they are grassing me up 😂

I get a very nice email as confirmation that I’m exempt from the ban.

You'd think SE Water would have plenty, given that a good chunk of Kent had no mains water for weeks earlier in the year.

Every night for a couple of weeks, SE News was showing footage of people queuing for ages to collect bottled water from distribution depots.

I totally agree about golf courses. I think it's scandalous that they're allowed to water them when there are water shortages.

Mind you, it's also scandalous that water companies are privatised and they'd rather make profits for their shareholders than invest in infrastructure and maintenance.

Nah I'll be doing what I want. We have appalling water pressure due to a leak, a good chunk of our neighbours are affected. Water comp don't see it as their issue, but it's not actually on our property and clearly a way up the road since it's affecting multiple lines. If they're happy to lose all that water then imma assume they don't really care that my hosepipe has been filling my pool for 2 days.

You know, you can just say that on reflection you have changed your mind.

Love and peace.

Honestly, they are fucking useless.

Bless!

Right. So you are happy with water rationing.

Just to clarify, the water we are surrounded by is salt water. It doesn't provide drinking water or water suitable for plants