To not stick to the hosepipe ban

[inyourheads]

Because no other fucker has to?

We’ve been told no more watering our plants or using the hosepipe from midnight tonight. However, since this announcement:

• A local business has confirmed their splash pad will be operational everyday this week from 8am to 8pm. How many millions of litres of water will that use?
• The local water park has also confirmed they will be open. Using more water and wasting more water.
• The local golf course has reassured members that they are able to keep watering the greens, so playing experiences won’t be compromised!
• Local parks will continue to be watered to “provide a green space for everyone”.
• Car washes etc in the local area are still allowed to operate.

I feel like it’s totally ridiculous that all that is allowed to happen, but I can’t use my hosepipe!

Saw the polo green being watered by a hose yesterday. I’m with you op, I won’t be sticking to the ban until all the things you mentioned are monitored. I’m absolutely sick to death of it all.

Using a watering can focuses your mind on how best to use the water. It’s more effective than a hose, and less wasteful.

Just ignore it then? Have a shorter shower and ‘spend’ the extra on your garden if you’re being sensible with it and it’s beneficial to your mental health.

Unsure of the saving between a quick hose directly on plants and the permitted filling of endless watering cans or drip irrigation. I think it’s a general idea of be mindful with water, so not filling a paddling pool every day or washing your car or sprinkling a massive lawn non stop. Also some people can use a hose but can’t carry watering cans.

It’s disgraceful. There’s clearly no issue or they’d be stopping these huge wastes lf water!

Then maybe the car washes and the golf courses can do it as well.

Those places provide jobs for people. You can water your garden with a watering can

Pissed it down all day today here. No heatwave and no hosepipe ban.

I am continuing to use my hosepipe because I would still be using the same amount of water if I used a watering can. It would just take me 4 times longer, so fuck that LOL. We don't have a hosepipe ban actually, but I would still use it even if we did. How the hell am I meant to water my 200+ flowers?! (Incl 30 sunflowers?)

Like I have not stuck to the rooolz about not feeding the birds via the bird seed feeders. I have 6 of them and multiple dozens of birds come by every day, and I wash the feeders out twice a week so they're generally clean.

And I believe it would be more detrimental to them to NOT feed them. Poor things can't get worms out of the ground, and the boiling hot summer means some of their natural food isn't growing.

So I didn't stop feeding them.

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I don’t think it’s ok to water lawns, but watering the rest of your garden with a hose is fair enough.

I understand that businesses are exempt but some are more worthy than others. The local hand car wash needs to exempt to continue to exist. The automatic mechanical car wash attached to BP petrol stations which turn over millions do not.

I can’t see what’s so important about golf courses being green. Surely you can whack a ball with a stick whether the grass is green or yellow?

It doesn’t seem right to me to restrict individuals while allowing rich businesses to do what they want, especially when the water companies themselves prioritise shareholder profits over fixing leaks, so I don’t blame anyone for ignoring the hosepipe ban.

Baths use less water than modern power showers

Certain businesses are allowed to use water. They’re not the issue, it’s people like you that think they don’t have to follow the rule that are the issue.

Esp if you then let them go cold and use the grey water to water your plants. This is what I have been doing - lugging really heavy buckets but I feel it’s worth it. I also have a bowl in the sink to collect water when I am running the tap to get hot water so that doesn't go to waste either.

So are gardens.

God the selfishness of some on this thread. “Until everything is utterly perfectly everywhere else I’m not going to change my behaviour one jot.” It’s like people refusing to recycle or attempt to reduce their carbon emissions because “until China does its bit, what’s the point?”. The point is that if everyone had that attitude, we’d never get anywhere.

Have you turned on the news? The world on flipping fire, people. One day your children will ask you what things were like when they were kids, and what part you played in trying to help our planet. You’re not being asked to go to war, you’re being asked not to use a hosepipe. And yes, some businesses will be allowed to keep using theirs, because we don’t want to tank (pardon the pun) various bits of the economy and put people out of work if we possibly can. Do you remember Covid?

Don’t be on the wrong side of history here, you will look ridiculous.

Just be grateful you have weather that’s nice enough for a hosepipe ban…

I’m in the bath listening to the rain pouring outside as it has been all day.

My washing got soaked on the line, I went for a run as it seemed to have stopped then as I’d got 6k away from home it started pissing down again so I got back soaked.

I keep reading about heatwaves on here and checked the weather down south and was so jealous.
We had about 2 weeks of glorious weather mixed in with humid overcast days and now rain.

I’m struggling already with the nights drawing in and it being darker in the mornings, I’d love just a couple more weeks of sunshine before it becomes constant rain every day and my mood plummets.

I bet it’s easy to guess where I lived based on this?!

Because it's that easy🙄

Commercial use isn't part of the ban. I'm allowed to fill my hot tub as it's for my business. If I used a watering can it would be the same amount of water in any case.

Neither are daily showers.

Standpipes won’t be easier on anyone.

What business are you in?

Im going to have this as a draft as im sick of fucking saying it but some of us only have a bath I only have a bath because THATS ALL THE HOUSING ASSOCIATION WILL PROVIDE. Am i just supposed to not wash. Im also in a top floor flat with black cladding and window restrictors I dont have a garden to escape to. Its fucking unbearable up here so i need to have a fucking bath. I do fill the bath up with water and jump in and out of the same water but use fresh water when i wash my hair Not much to ask as i didnt add to climate change by reproducing and i dont go abroad and i dont drive.

We visited a splash pad with our kids yesterday and the water runs for twenty minutes, is collected underneath the sprays, filtered, sanitized and cleaned in the twenty minutes of down time, and then put back out the spray nozzles. Obviously some of it is lost on the kids playing in the water but its not all running away to wastewater. They might not be as bad as you think.

It would likely be less water. People are generally more careful and targeted with a can than a hose. Just water the base of each plant, you don’t need to hose everything down liberally.

To be fair flowers in gardens are essential for insect life which is essential for human life.
Biodiversity is key

I agree but a watering can does the job fine in a private garden.