Neighbour demanded proof of our hosepipe ban exemption

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My NDN has just demanded to see proof that we are exempt from the local hose pipe ban !!!!

I have said to them I won’t be showing them anything as it’s private but they can report me if I want and the water company can check.

We literally have just been filling a small paddling pool daily for the dc for after school and today have a little sprinkler toy as it’s boiling.

I know some people aren’t aware that there are exemptions (eg being on priority services register or certain tariff) but I’m so shocked they demanded proof !!!

I tip the water on the plants afterwards

They could have a cold bath?

Because an able bodied person would find it easier to fill the paddling pool up with a watering can

The hosepipe ban doesn't start until 17th here so I'll be making sure my garden is well watered this week. After that I'll be using watering cans but I'll be filling them from the hose so it all seems a bit pointless!

I'm off to buy some water board shares. Like taking candy from a baby 😁

What a genuinely bizarre comment

its more pointing out the hypocrisy of the water companies

I was inexplicably added to loads of priority services during the pandemic (e.g. supermarket slots). I don't know how. I think the hospital might have released names.

Surely depends on the disability

this is an anonymous forum and therefore the very place to ask things that we don't in real life - literally the very point of this forum

i would also like to know as i assume its ASD related and i have priority tariff - great news for me and my paddling pool kids 👍😁

😮 Wouldn't be filling a paddling pool during a water shortage

Yes of course,but if you've registered as a priority customer then presumably you would find it hard to use a can.

I’m interested to know if all the horror struck posters who wouldn’t consider having a paddling pool have small children?

I doubt I’d empty and refill a paddling pool daily, I’d likely get cleaning tablets, but they aren’t a completely unreasonable thing to have in this weather.

There isn't a shortage though.

@LoafofSellotape but the priority service isn’t limited to disabilities impacting your ability to use a watering can

Why don't you just fill it with buckets or watering can? If seems that you are abusing an allowance designed for one of your family members, not for you.

Interesting that the salary of two CEOs have been capped for environmental reasons. Pollution.

Where? Certain areas near us have been asked to limit water usage to essential use only. Paddling pool either filled by bucket or hosepipe probably doesn’t fit essential use for most families

Yanbu. Hose pipe bans are a complete joke. It rains most of the year, we live next to the sea. The water companies continually have leaky pipes and leak sewage into the sea. We don't get hose pipes in my area ever but if they did I wouldn't comply. Fucking joke.

I didn't know this. But it's my 14 year old sons blue badge but he would never water the garden. So I don't think it's much help to us. Who knew? How do people become aware of this?

Sigh. You check with your water supplier.

I just googled. I have a blue badge there's a lot of extras it's not just for the car.

Well fortunately for me we don’t have a hosepipe ban in my area.

But genuinely why would I? Wouldn't it be easier for them to tell us everything that is covered by priority service? Like our power supplier didn't wait for us to ask if we could have a power bank. They just delivered it? My child is disabled. I honestly don't have time to look up every single concession that he is entitled to and this is a random one. My pressing concerns are getting water bottles when its cut off. Even then they have never turned up. Filling a paddling pool is pretty low on my list of things to research

I'm amazed at people complaining about a couple of kids with medical needs having a little paddling pool - people are so ridiculous they're even suggesting they have a cold bath instead - I mean the water goes in the pool and also waters the plants or it goes in the bath and goes down the plug hole, how on earth is that better?

Be fucked off at the water companies taking the absolute piss. Southern water had a profit of 138 million last year, but this lady can't fill a little paddling pool when it gets really hot for her disabled kids. Blame the shitty water companies for not bothering to fix leaks - we had one in the road for months that they blamed on run off from the hills. They came out 4 times before they found that is was actually a leak.

Blame the water companies for not bothering to build any new reservoirs - do you know the last time a reservoir was built? Fucking 1992, 34 years ago. The UK population has gone up by about 11 MILLION since then.

Stop being annoyed by this lady and start getting annoyed at the right people - the shitty water company fat cats syphoning all the money off to line their pockets.