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

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

The point is you are supposed to water less/only use what you really must!

However i can imagine some disabled people might use a lazy spa or similar for hydrotherapy.

Saying the government don’t build houses isn’t semantics!

Which is the whole point. There is no ban on watering gardens or plants, just on the method used. So the ban is lifted for disabled people because they may not be able to carry the alternatives of a watering can or bucket - a hosepipe is just easier.

The neighbour with he autistic child has sensory difficulties relating to heat and has melt downs that are hard to mange ,his drs recommend emersion in cool water to help regulate his mood. I dont see the difference in doing this cool emersion in the bath or outside in a kids paddling pool tbh. My neighbour feels this this constitutes a legitimate need
I agree regardling the water companies .
My other neighbour says her children are also uncomfortable ,one has excema and benefit from cooling down in water too,the rules dont say you cant fill a bath or paddling pool,just that you cant use a hosepipe to do so. I can see their points,
I on the other hand wont be filling a paddling or swimming pool, washing my car or watering my grass as i dont think it essential currently for me personally.

What’s confusing. You’re choosing to obey an arbitrary rule and your neighbours have decided that their bill is going to be the same and they aren’t killing their lawn.

Meanwhile - the water companies are paying themselves ridiculous bonuses. Not fixing the infrastructure and you think you not using your hosepipe is going to make a damn bit of difference.

That’s factually not true though. Children with profound SEND, or who need a hoist and pool chair to access the water who cannot go to a public pool in the same way that most children could. Children who are on certain types of medications that mean they struggle with thermoregulation will need to keep cool more than others. It would be NICE for all children to have access to a paddling pool, but the NEED is not the same.

You can’t see how it might be harder to take an autistic child to a public pool or the beach? You can’t see how it might be harder for an autistic child to understand the need to wear a hat and stay in the shade? Really?

Furthermore, water is a key aspect of sensory regulation for many autistic children, and children with SEND also often have more difficulty regulating their body temperature than NT children.

its not making an assumption when you literally said your DH is disabled but you are not using the hose because you aren’t arseholes. If you don’t want things taken the “wrong way” then maybe don’t say it 🙄

Still OP has not responded to my simple question up thread?

Is there actually a hosepipe ban in your area?

My area has no ban and I’ve gone about my business using the hose as usual.

It would not surprise if you are my neighbour, as this is the sort of nosey spiteful passive aggressive judgement they are prone to.

Priority customers can use a hose pipe. Check your water company for how to qualify. Senior citizens do, disabled under five’s - it’s quite a long list.

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DH is on the priority list with npower as he uses a CPAP machine so I think they must share data. However, a hosepipe ban doesn't affect him negatively so we stopped using our hosepipe because we aren't self entitled arseholes (and we live near several reservoirs which were scarily low and could see the impact of using too much water).

Nowhere on this posts does it say DH is disabled. I have reposted what I wrote stating that as a hosepipe ban didn't affect him negatively we complied with it as we aren't arseholes.

Oh, and I have received a lot of likes for that post from posters whose reading comprehension is better than yours. You have taken it the wrong way.

@HesterLeggatt my point was that's he's using the exemption to water his lawn with a sprinkler which is very wasteful and mostly watering the fence! His daughter with autism isn't using the sprinkler or even the garden.

I assume the exemption says something specific about water use being related to disability? However in this case that household is just being irresponsible imo.

we stopped using our hosepipe because we aren't self entitled arseholes

There it is.

Obviously no one is going to disagree that a child with severe disability requiring specific equipment is not an exception, come on.

No one would be unkind enough to compare them with learning disability or autistic child with the same needs as all the others, no one is that ridiculous.

Because it’s harder work for a disabled person to be filling and lugging watering cans? 🤷‍♀️

Not in any of the ones linked so far on these Disabled people are getting above their station threads.

Seems simple to me- either they are ignoring it or as others have said, they are exempt for some reason. I’m in Scotland and I don’t remember in my whole life there ever being a hosepipe ban in place so I don’t know what the exemptions are. Is it possible they don’t know about it? Yeah sounds incredibly annoying (even if they are exempt, I’m sure using the pressure washer doesn’t exactly count as using it for a reason related to disability!) but not much you can do really.

No one will stop me watering my garden and besides its pathetic, a dishwasher and washing machine use far more and people probably use both daily where i dont...

Crack on with your own life and leave others to theirs. I bet youre that person who reports this!

Apologies for the delay - husband on long shifts. He said he has a nilfisk pressure washer which can take water from a bucket/water butt (unlike the karcher) and then attached one of these to use as a filter
https://amzn.eu/d/0asPJIUF . Hope that helps.

Me too

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You are taking it out of context.
The context is that as a hosepipe ban didn't affect us negatively we stopped using it as we aren't arseholes.

You really need to improve your reading comprehension.

Thanks to the wet Autumn, Winter and Spring, most areas have an excellent reserve of water right now.

However, the bottle neck is in how much water you can run through the water treatment plants to match demand. Therefore, whilst bloody annoying, the water loss through leaks is pretty insignificant at the moment.

The situation may change and underground reserves fall significantly, but the reality is that as of right now, it’s the capacity of the water treatment plants not matching existing capacity load through the network.

From a relative in water operations for a large supplier.

You can still use your hose to fill your watering cans! Hoses waste water through over spray and leaving the bloody things on when you’re not using them. Using a watering can gives a slower, more targeted dollop of water rather than it coming out at a billion miles per hour and spraying everywhere from the hose.

We have an exemption, but we use the hose to fill the can method anyway. Luckily, the rellie told us 24 hrs before the announcement of the TUB so we topped up the pond, paddling pool and water butts to the brim too, but tbh the news had been publicising different water companies bringing TUBs in so was common sense to get ready and prepared for the TUB (and our county was asked to start the ban before the rest of the authority area due to issues with a pumping & treatment station).

If anyone fancies curtain twitching and dobbing in your neighbour, fill your boots. Hope it makes you feel good about yourselves rather than using critical thinking as to why someone may be eligible to use their hosepipe.

Mind you, critical thinking is a life skill that some people here are unfortunate enough to be deficient in.

most areas have an excellent reserve of water right now.
What is your source for that?

Most the UK population lives in England.
"In the week ending 14 July, reservoir storage for England was 78.8%, which is 5% below the LTA for the time of year. "

My source is Gov.uk. What is your source?