Confused how neighbour not impacted by hosepipe ban and I am...

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Hose pipe ban - neighbour doesn't seem impacted...confused?!

I guess because it’s more difficult/impossible for a disabled physically disabled person to lug a watering can. I totally get that. But anyone on their water company’s Priority Services Register is exempt - everyone of pensionable age, anyone with a mental health problem, any one who is disabled can join the register. That probably covers more than half of the adult population!

Water Companies have a list of vulnerable customers and these people are exempt from the hose pipe ban. I know this because last year I received a letter to say I was classed as a vulnerable customer and the hose pipe ban didn’t apply to me. I was very confused as to why I was on this list, only thing I can think is that I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2021.

No they aren't so far. The last news item I heard was that the reservoirs were at a healthier level than this time last year as we had a wet winter and spring. They are low, but not as bad as last year.

The companies don't have the capacity to visit every property individually and say yup you can use your hose or not. 😂 We have someone with a gastric condition in the household so are noted as needing water in the event of stoppage. However they are not out in the garden hosing their arse 🤷‍♀️😂 . It's all about common sense isn't which is often sadly lacking.

You started with the semantics!

Unless they go round everyone’s house individually assessing need for a hosepipe then it has to be a ‘blanket’ exemption, based on certain (known) criteria.

my mistake sorry

If the country stopped accepting everyone that crosses the border we’d have houses to home our own citizens
I thought you meant foreigners, I didn't realise you meant.. actually WHO did you mean then?

I'm on a priority list, though not currently in an area with a hosepipe ban. I don't even have a hosepipe, so my chances of annoying the neighbours with my theoretical exemption are pretty low. DH does everything that involves outside cleaning and watering. But if he wasn't here, there's absolutely no way I could fill and carry a watering can of any useful size, or do the amount of walking that would be necessary to make multiple returns to the kitchen tap with something small enough to manage. Seeing all this disability-envy fuelled rage and fake confusion about people who get something that looks unfair because waaah, why should I keep the rules when 'they' don't have to, really, really pisses me off.

I said above that I didn’t know people were so hothead about hosepipes until I joined MN.
Another thing I didn’t know until I joined MN was how envious some people are of disabled people!
Pretty sure my son would happily give up his hosepipe ban exemption if it meant he could live an independent life.

Don't think they'd fancy the permanent damage done to the ligaments, tendons and cartilage around my right hip from slipping when carrying a bucket of water prior to exemption, either. Looking back, I should have just used the hose because my neighbours aren't pricks in the first place and it would have saved the NHS a shitload of money in treating the damage and subsequent three year rehabilitation period.

Labour responsible for water shortage because they try to build affordable housing, Suella is that you?

Because people who have a blue badge generally have health issues that could be exacerbated or made worse by carrying heavy watering cans etc

Labour are responsible for everything. Haven't you noticed?

I have a BB.

I didn't know it offered any exemption re hosepipe bans.

id need to check with my water company, but I don't use a hosepipe anyway.

I think around a quarter of the population consider themselves to be disabled? So a hosepipe ban is pretty pointless as most households will have someone who qualifies to use a hose.

Become significantly disabled. Apparently. Feel free to have my disability if you want to try to get an exemption.

FFS

Definitely. I don't actually use a hose pipe., and I haven't checked out whether my Water company gives you an exemption if you have a blue badge. But any idiot that wants to try for an exemption on the basis of being disabled as welcome to my disability to give it a go.

I'd bloody swap it for watering the garden with a thimble.

You can only speak for your own Water area the rules are not the same countrywide.

She doesn't need to magic up one, if she wants my disability, she's more than welcome to it and I will water my garden with a thimble!

(I don't actually have a garden a hose pipe or a thimble, but I do have a disability)

Do you think it is okay to pressure wash things then, when your area has a hosepipe ban? I've just checked a couple of other areas apart from my own, and they all have the same restrictions on pressure washers.

The mum filling buckets is being an idiot, ‘hosepipe ban’ is a short way of saying ‘a ban on using water for unnecessary things you can live without’. If she’s going to fill the paddling pool anyway then she may as well just use the hose, it’s using the exact same amount of water in the exact same frivolous manner.

Absolutely no one, regardless of medical condition NEEDS a paddling pool, it may make things more pleasant but it’s not necessary.

Water companies are a bunch of money grabbing, immoral bastards who have prioritises profit over maintaining infrastructure and serving their customers. We all know this and can hate it and moan about it, but the fact is that even if they throw a shit tonne of money at it they won’t be able to make a significant improvement quickly enough to conserve water this year.

if people keep pouring water heedlessly into garden swimming pools, or keeping their grass the right shade of green, or making sure their car is just the right amount of shiny then some areas of the country will end up with water rationing or all out water shortages where you’ll have to go collect your bottle from the lorry at the end of the road once a day.

So yeah, some people are exempt from the hosepipe ban due to legitimate needs, but they should only be using that to meet legitimate needs, not to ensure they can have a splash about in the garden whenever they fancy.

It’s pointless because 5x as much water as they’ll save with a hosepipe ban is lost every day in leaks.

I’m not sure if my son ‘considers himself’ disabled, his intellectual disability means he doesn’t have that level of understanding. He sadly is disabled though, and woo hoo! that earns us an exemption. Definitely worth the disability, the pain, the despair, the fact that he’ll never live independently etc, as long as we get to use our hosepipe.

you haven't checked Essex and Suffolk water then

Yep. Mine absolutely doesn’t consider himself disabled.

He has very few phrases available to him, but one of them is “I KNOWWWW!” (He doesn’t know. Hardly ever does he know).