To think that given the predicted water shortage this year, people should try and cut down their water use

[MuffinTheMilf]

for example those MNetters who say they use their washing machines 20x week for a family of 4 and wash bedding/towels daily, underwear separately etc. Surely lots of water could be saved this way, along with shorter showers and so on.

YANBU

I intend to share my baths and showers with George Clooney

I'll hop in as well Worra...

I live in Scotland, do I really HAVE to?

YABU, partially at least.

The water companies should do something about the amount of water that leaks out of their badly maintained and badly repaired infrastructure, it would go a long way towards ensuring that housholders in the south-east have enough water to do their washing.

Hose-pipe/garden watering except using "grey water" should be banned in the affected areas now.

Katie..... you don't want to share with George Clooney...... strange!

I am also in scotland, no shortage of water here. However, the SE of England has a serious problem (for the past few years), it's becoming altogether too continental in climate....

I agree, but lots of water - in fact 20% of all treated water - 3,3000,000,000 litres a day could be saved by the water companies alone if they dealt with the leaks instead of hiving off their massive profits

I also live in Scotland. We've got loads of water thanks to our miserable wet climate, so I shall happily use as much as I want.
I mean there's got to be some advantages to living in the Highlands.

Oh good, the main consolation of the dreich up here is that there is no water monitoring.

I share my shower with no-one

Yes LADYBeagle, it's good we have at least one perk to make up for the lack of daylight!

Send some buckets up here and I'll collect some for you and send it back

Should have specified England :o

Yes, water companies should fix leaks but every little helps and cutting personal use down, especially the wm would help the environment in other respects too.

Everyone should have a dishwasher as this saves water and energy.

Bugger off. I'm not giving up my filled-to-the-brim baths for anything.

It's not "England", it's part of the east and south east. If I lived there I would cut down on water use, but I live in the south west where it rains all the bloody time. I also think that nowadays people won't cut their use unless they are forced to because they are customers of private water companies and as such they think they are always right. Just shows what privatising a finite resource does.

Hm, not everyone can afford a dishwasher or has room to have one McHappy, though you're right they do save water.

I live in England

I don't have room for a dishwasher.

In theory, yes, we should cut down.

In reality, I pay huge water bills four times a year and if I want a shower long enough to wash my (long) hair and shave my legs in, then I will bloody well have one.

As for washing, what else do you expect people to do? I don't wash clothes for fun, I wash clothes because they need to be washed!

I can either wash bedding everyday or let DS sleep in wee. I'd rather wash my bedding thanks.

Yes, but if your shower to wash your hair and shaved your legs meant that others were going without, IUseTooMuchKitchenRoll? That's what I mean about it being a finite resouce. People are charged so much for it nowadays, they think they can use as much as they want. But say it actually runs out?

BTW, I've looked on the map no. I was wrong about it just being parts of the east and south east. A large area of England is affected.

it rains so often up here (lancashire coast) I am surprised we haven't got webbed feet.

Fucking leaks. Billions of litres are lost though leaks every bloody day . Where is all this profit going? No, don't answer.

(doesn't mean that people shouldn't share the responsibility of cutting down usage though).

I expect people to wash clothes, bed linen when they are dirty, not just for the sake of it!

Fair enough hanaka, I had a bed wetter too (became dry just short of 8yrs old). But even washing her bedding daily I still didn't manage 20 loads a week - it was when we were in Oz and there were huge water restrictions.

I am scottish we have gallons and gallons of the bloody stuff , there must be a way that it can be transported or divereted to water shortage areas

I don't know what happens if it actually runs out. I pay someone else to worry about that! If it's that important, then they should charge less for it or sort out the leaks. Until that happens, yes, I do feel that as I pay for it I can use what I want.

We don't have a garden that requires watering, and I think pretty lawns and flowers should go long before people sleeping in clean bedding and having showers should.

Of course I wouldn't want others to go without, but I can't believ that the situation is that serious until we start seeing things like Wimbledon being canceled (for example), because they can't keep the grass alive.

Is Siemens would come and fix my brand new bloody expensive dishwasher, then yes, I'd happily use much less water!

And the water companies need to really be seen to be doing more to cut down leaks...

But yes, I agree, I am sure we can all do even a little something to preserve some of the supplies, but it's nothing compared to what leaks out.