To not stick to the hosepipe ban

Or we can all queue up
at the standpipes.

If businesses go out of business, we all pay more, if the employees need benefits.

Private home dwellers can just use a watering can. 🙄

well ditto..your garden isnt essential to human life either...and use a friggin watering can like the rest of us mere mortals your highness

100 bloody per cent this!

Especially this bit......

.....it does not make sense for me to use a watering can to carry the same bloody amount of water that I use with my hosepipe as I only have a small garden and I am very careful to only consume the minimum required with my hose pipe to keep my fruit trees, plants and shrubs alive....

I have said this a few times, but the 'you lot using hosepipes to water your plants to keep them alive, instead of a watering can are soooooooooooo selfish' brigade seem to be deliberately ignoring me.

Basically, yeah, if you use a watering can, you're still using the same amount of water that you would if you used a hosepipe! DUH! It's pretty obvious.... But it takes 5 times longer, so like fuck am I doing that. I also have no hosepipe ban, so can use the hosepipe anyway, which is annoying the self righteous judgemental finger-waggers!

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They are businesses as others have pointed out - it is about prioritising the use of water during a potential shortage.

Also I do not think the fact that someone else breaks the rules is a reason for you not to comply. If a neighbour speeds/shoplifts, would you think that was a good reason for you too?

Ignore the ban we are
Do the pots at night and Filled hot tub at the weekend didn’t even give it a Second thought.

Yes.

Please read my original message. The current issues have almost nothing to do with basic maintenance, and yes i am some days working 14+ hours.

You've got plenty of time for moaning on the internet. Why not use some of that time to get some fresh air and exercise.

If it’s an accessibility issue then I believe you can apply for a disability exemption.

You don’t have to do it all at once.
And you don’t actually need to water all your plants.

Many are tolerant/hardy and can survive droughts. My tomatoes are thriving, I’m hardly watering them at all. The perennial geranium is huge, the hibiscus and roses are covered in flowers. Agapanthus, lavender, cosmos, verbena… all fine.

If your huge expensive garden doesn’t have any hardy plants in it then you haven’t planned it very efficiently and you will have to put the work in to help it survive a drought and a hosepipe ban.

Your plants won’t die if you use a watering can!

Then why bother? I’ve no skin in the game as I’m in Scotland so a hosepipe ban is just a weird thing I hear about from down south. Why not just carry on as you are?

Presumably a splash place uses the same water, treated with chlorine, like a swimming pool would?

If a water company wants these business to cease trading while there are shortages then said water company should pay the employees of these companies furlough.
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It has nothing to do with being self righteous, but posters remembering standpipes in 1976 who don't want to go back to that.

Using up what is currently a finite source won't make it magically appear if it doesn't rain.

We should hit the water companies, their crooked CEOs and greedy shareholders where it hurts most by not paying for a service we aren't getting.

I agree with most of your points though @seawitchandgarden2

I am with you OP. Because:

• Water companies not fixing leaks wastes more water all year around than anything that could be saved through a hose pipe ban for a few days in the summer
• I am still waiting for a ban on bonuses for the overpaid crooks that currently run water companies and prison sentences for them polluting all our rivers and seas
• Water shortages are caused by the lack of investment in infrastructure. I live in England where rain pisses down on us for the majority of the year and water companies should be able to build reserves (if they were not so busy paying their shareholders and directors rather than building new reservoirs)
• it does not make sense for me to use a watering can to carry the same bloody amount of water that I use with my hosepipe as I only have a small garden and I am very careful to only consume the minimum required with my hose pipe to keep my fruit trees, plants and shrubs alive.

Basically I want to see all water companies re-nationalised. In the meantime I will ignore anything they request.

Lots of self righteous people on this thread who don't seem to grasp that the people they need to go after are the water companies, not some home owners putting water in their rose bushes and who prefer a hose pipe because they might have a bad back...

I live in a HA property and this is what I have done, hence my suggestion. I had to apply to do it but there was no problem with it being allowed (or the outside light)). Don’t make presumptions about other people’s circumstances!

The others on your list are all businesses - there is a difference. YABU.
I’m using a hosepipe running slow to feed a mister to cool the air in part of the garden to stop my hens dying from the heat on the hottest days. Animal care is allowed, there are other exemptions too.
I remember the 1976 standpipes, it wasn’t fun.

Isn't 90% of "recycling" sent to landfill anyway?

Anyhow, 2 wrongs don't make a right, so OP YABU. But I agree it IS infuriating esp when your provider is THAMES WATER. Anyhow, let's all be above that and do as much as poss to save water.

It's shit OP, but honestly, we all have to do our bit. If everyone has your attitude we risk running out of water for our homes and having additional restrictions put in place. Do you want that? I know I don't. We've had a hosepipe ban for weeks and I can assure you that our local parks and gardens are looking as dried up and brown as our gardens are. We've been watering with cans and buckets though, filling up dishes and bird baths and watering flowers to provide food for insects. None of us wants this drought, I can assure you!

Im not allowed to do this Its housing association Do some reading and check your privilege.
Im currently sitting waiting for the HAs gas contractor to do the gas safety check which we still have to have even though we are CAPPED Thats what its like renting off an HA

I have a friend who is on the board for his local golf course. They use a lot of grey water and the water within their lakes during hot weather. Yes, they use hoses, but it comes from their own water supplies. Also, it has been shown that the amount of water needed to bring a golf course back to green after a ban would be far more than frequent gentle watering during.

You may also find that the local splash pad you mention uses water recycling on a closed loop system. That's what my local one does. It filters the water before reusing it.

So, yes you're being unreasonable for continuing to use a hose pipe as you don't know all the information for these individuals businesses.

Do you sometimes cross the road when the lights are red too?