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

How else would you to it?

We did have a ban a couple of years ago and still did this.

We have actually filled up a paddling pool when camping before (yes we asked first) back and forth with buckets for water. We still filled it as did some other campers who also when and got paddling pools during a heat wave.

Nothing at all.

It makes you think twice about how much water you need. If you have a couple of litres less, and everyone else has a couple of litres less, there is enough for everyone to have drinking water every day.

Yay!

And I’m not in a ban. We never have a ban so it was purely hypothetical.

Get water butts attached to your drainpipes. That's what we've done and we're in Scotland, so no ban.. We've even rigged up an overflow barrel so that one drainpipe collects twice the water now. Better for the garden anyway.

A lot of the comments here don’t seem to join the dots.
People keep saying “what about all the leaks?” But where do people think that leaked water goes? It’s not lost forever. Much of it returns to the ground or rivers and can eventually become available again through the natural water cycle. The immediate problem isn’t that water has disappeared forever; it’s that there simply hasn’t been enough rain to replenish supplies.
Despite people claiming it’s “rained all year”, many parts of the country have actually experienced below-average rainfall for three consecutive years. That’s why reservoirs, rivers and groundwater are under pressure.
I also keep seeing people saying water companies should just abstract more water. They can’t. Abstraction licences are legal limits designed to protect rivers and wildlife. Exceeding those limits is illegal, and rightly so. The whole point of environmental regulation is to stop rivers being damaged during dry periods.
Yes, water companies want to avoid breaching their environmental permits and targets—because those rules exist to protect the environment. Surely that’s what we want?
Arguments about combined sewer overflows don’t change that. If you’re angry about pollution, the solution isn’t to support even more environmental damage by over-abstracting rivers.
As for golf courses, car washes and swimming pools, businesses are covered under a different stage of restrictions (Non-Essential Use Bans), not domestic hosepipe bans.
And yes, new reservoirs are being built, but reservoirs still need rainfall to fill them. Infrastructure helps, but it can’t create water.
Finally, water companies don’t decide how many houses get built, and they aren’t automatically granted extra abstraction licences to meet new demand because those licences are constrained by environmental limits.
Whether people like it or not, a Temporary Use Ban is a legal restriction, just as abstraction licences are legal restrictions on water companies. You can’t argue that companies should obey one set of environmental laws while encouraging everyone else to ignore another.

you dont need a hose to fill up a paddling pool, you are being ridiculous and selfish

Completely agree. The water industry needs serious reform. That isn't an excuse for wasting water.

You’d technically have to fill it with buckets or a wateringcan not a hose.

We can’t get any further information in our area but our shower has just changed from low pressure to no water for the second night in a row.

Does this include filling up a paddling pool?

I won't comply, no.

I get what you are saying but I don’t really think that’s what most people have an issue with . There are people on this thread complaining about their kids not being able to have waterfights to cool down . It’s the height of selfishness

I live in Kent - we have hosepipe bans every year,and have had periods without water.Our water pressure is flaky at the best of times.
I have water butts and I’ll water with watering cans,I’m also trying to get my garden into a more drought tolerant state.
But - I think the state of the water industry is appalling, the condition of our seas and rivers is appalling, and that something as vital as the water industry shouldn’t be run privately for profit.

We will comply because we don't like breaking the rules and use a watering can, also planning on adding more mulch to the beds to try and keep more water in. But it's frustrating when they have leaks and it's just pouring down the street! Also I'm not convinced it will save much water, with the long head on the hosepipe it's easier to direct the water under the leaves at the roots and only have the water running while in position. It's more awkward getting the water only at ground level with the can!

As someone paying an extortionate amount for annual water as it can’t be metered. I’ll use the water in whatever way I fancy.

i do want to report someone who uses a hosepipe to clean their driveway every other day for 3 hours with a pressure washer.

Does anyone know how to report them anonymously?

The woman lives opposite my parents

Of course.

But if you have a garden which needs a lot of water you need to start thinking about changes, as the likelihood is that the climate will get hotter and drier.