AIBU to think a school water fight during a hosepipe ban is wrong?

Are they actually using hosepipes?

Seriously, how many litres of water do you expect to be thrown? Each flush of a toilet is 6 litres. A hosepipe is 1000l per hour. I suspect the waterfight will be closer to the former than the latter.

Fuckinhell OP. Lighten up.

This!!! And actually supply their customers with water

I'm more interested in hearing about the overt corruption of the water companies in the past decade. That's the elephant in the room.

Presumably they won’t be using a hosepipe. A water fight for a bunch of kids will use less water than bath time for one family of four. Probably less than bath time for two people, actually.

I used to work for an organisation that had role in drought prevention and trust me, a kids’ water fight isn’t a big deal.

Hosepipe bans get put in plane because hosepipes expel a hell of a lot water very quickly and people have absolutely no sense of how much water they’re using when they wash a car or water their garden or hook up a lawn sprinkler. The reason it’s specifically hosepipes that get banned rather than, eg, refilling swimming pools or hot tubs is just because it makes people more conscious of the amount of water they’re using and it stops them using more than they realise. It’s a very blunt instrument for reducing water usage chosen partly because it’s easy for people to understand and it’s easier to enforce - and it doesn’t mean people can’t fill watering cans or a bucket from a tap or that kids can’t fill up water balloon or lob a wet sponge at their mates. Those things are small fry.

If you don’t agree with it then don’t let your child participate, it’ll go ahead either way.

I doubt many of the kids have any idea about a hose pipe ban.

Yet two weeks ago the thread was that schools were being horrible for not allowing water fights.

Make your minds up.

We live on an island pay ridiculous prices for water services and the schools are going to be shut down for 6 weeks using very little water so I think they will survive. The water company do this to us every year I think they should prepare properly.

It's probably something like, every pupil brings their own hose to school from home. To ensure adequate pressure it will be connected to a fire hydrant by the school caretaker.

(No jet washers allowed.)

Let them have some fun ffs

All very well people saying it's not an issue. Guess you weren't the ones without water for weeks on end and will be the first to kick up a stink when your taps run dry.
Yes the water companies are crap, doesn't change the fact that our water levels are desperately low and using water for fun really isn't very intelligent.

I’m sure the water fight would have the full backing of Saint Boris, the patron saint of truth, integrity and morals.

And as @Biker47 said, water companies must get their own ethics in order before they have the audacity to start preaching and moralising about responsible water use.

YABU. Nothing wrong with a water fight. I don’t agree with hosepipe bans and certainly don’t follow them.

Shut up! When the water Companies stop loosing gazillions of millions of water due to greed, then hosepipe bans can be unjustified. Let the kids have fun for goodness sake.

I think it would be a better use of your time to contact water companies and get them to spend more money on fixing their leaks.

Haha love it 😂

I couldn’t get worked up about this. Think of it in terms of one hosepipe serving loads of kids. Better than all those kids doing something similar individually at home, using hundreds of hosepipes.

I had a water fight in PE last week, the week before, today and I intend to have another one tomorrow! So there!
We use one bucket of water. If op doesn’t flush her loo all day that should allow me to have another one on Friday.

Sounds fun, providing they don't use a hosepipe

How cool would this be? Obviously not during a hosepipe ban...

I assume it's not 100's of kids each with their own hosepipe 😂

Pretty sure the guidance on most water companies websites say that rather than sprinklers give your kids water pistols …

This wouldn't bother me at all or even feature on my radar of things to get het up over.

They can fill containers (even paddling pools) from an outdoor tap, it doesn't have to be from a hosepipe. How do you know that they aren't doing that? All of the kids can be involved in helping out to do it and then the water fight can begin.

The kids will love it. What is it that you don't like about it? You could write in and say that your child should not be allowed to participate if you wish. Or you could loosen up and not be too prim and proper.

My daughter has been talking about this all year as her school traditionally have a Y6 water fight but it was cancelled last year due to a hosepipe ban in our area. Fortunately, we haven't got one in our area this year or school would cancel it. I think you are right about what it teaches the children. It's a sense of entitlement - we want to have fun so we are going to do it regardless of the rules. I don't always think it's fair to impose bans when gallons of water is wasted in unfixed leaks, but not following the rules isn't the right way to go about it in my opinion.