Would you report somebody for using a hosepipe during a ban?

[BurntBroccoli]

Lots of people on FB saying they will continue using as much water as they please as they have “paid for it”.

Reservoir levels are at 55% capacity when normally it’s 89% and with much more hot weather to come, I’m worried that they will implement standpipes due to people being irresponsible.

Yep this.

I won’t stop watering my garden. It’s the one thing that gives me joy as a disabled person that doesn’t leave my house that much. If the rich people can still get their cars washed and go to 5 star resorts where the watering systems will still be sprinkling 24/7 then I’ll be damned if I stop using my hosepipe for about half an hour a day. (Mainly because I can’t lift a heavy watering can).

Yes I’m very aware of that.

I actually did see a Facebook post yesterday where someone had taken a photo of their neighbour jet washing their drive and had posted it on the Water company page. They asked for details to be DMd so they are taking breaches seriously.
Power jet washing a drive is absolutely not necessary during a water shortage.

How is it making more money if they just want you to pay for what you use? Many households are far better off on meters rather than RV.

And I can’t believe the amount of comments saying they can’t understand the ban as “we’re an island surrounded by water”.
Do people actually believe we can just drink sea water? There needs to some serious environmental education in this country quite clearly.

Totally agree. My patio could really do with a clean, but my conscience just won't allow me to do it - it'll have to wait until January if we have some decent rainfall before then. Sadly, some selfish people just don't seem to have a conscience.

There are various ways to make sea water drinkable.

No, like me, they may not be able to carry and use a watering can.

If it wasn't for years of bad behaviour from water companies, no infrastructure investment, sewage leaks, and shareholders creaming off profits means we would be able to cope with water shortages.

If they are paying for the water, then, no.

There isn't a water company in England that has earned the right to force it's customers to do the heavy lifting of saving water when they have spaffed untold billions on shareholder jollies.

When water becomes a public utility again, rather than a cash cow for cunts, I would be the first to report the merest drip from a tap.

Afaik desalinated water is quite corrosive so it's probably better we are not using it here really.

Dynamic pricing. They can charge you more at times when you need to use it more.

All of which require energy. Which is also in short supply in the UK.

The most obvious solution would be to use all of that useless solar and wind power to desalinate water. However there isn't enough pork fat in that idea to go around all the shareholders that need money more than you need water or power.

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The irony is the infrastructure you'd need for dynamic water pricing would reduce the shareholder dividends for years to come so isn't ever going to happen.

Unless the executives of the water companies can mount a massive media campaign along with political lobbying to persuade "the public" to pay for it. In much the way the energy companies did.

Yes I realise that, I think I posted about desalination plants up thread and why they are not used here.

These people genuinely thought that sea water was drinkable. Their ignorance is quite scary!

Who are “these people” you speak of?

I imagine they sit nicely in a Venn diagram of anti-vaxxers and climate change deniers. People who regard science with a deep suspicion until it's been on daytime TV ?

I would report it on Mumsnet, yes 👍

After being treated, surely.

We live on an island surrounded by water
Water companies and their fat cat beneficiaries have been taking the piss for years
we shouldn’t have to stop using water because of a 2 week heatwave

This is why absolutely everyone should be on a meter and if someone is still using large volumes during a ban they should pay much higher prices. It’s the only way people will actually think what they’re using. (we have well water and I have been brought up not to waste water).

I commented in another thread that it's embarrassing with millennia of experience in water management as a species, we have ended up with this literal shower of shit managing ours.

i write as someone who has no worries about water, thanks to an age when people who were paid to do their fucking job actually did their fucking job.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elan_Valley_Reservoirs

Its not just a 2 week heatwave, it's a 5 month drought.

and ? Build a reservoir. Build another. How many reservoirs could have been built with the billions UK water companies have funnelled off to shareholders ?

It's telling that when the water companies were privatised, there was no mention of any obligations except returning value to shareholders. (Actually I have no idea if that is true or not. But if it doesn't prompt anyone to check, then it may as well stand as true 😀).

@Maverickess get a load of this

Other countries have air conditioning In the UK we have yoghurt on the outside of windows Would love for this academic to show me how someone who lives in a tower block is supposed to do this.
Absolute fucking stupidity.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4rg3nqq7go?app-referrer=deep-link