HosePipe Ban (North West)

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Just wondering about the hose pipe ban, it says I'm not allowed to wash my car with the hose pipe, but your still alowed to use hosepipes if it's a place of work, like a golf course.
"It is not a decision we have taken lightly, but a hosepipe can use as much water in an hour as a family of four would use in one day. This ban will help us to safeguard essential water supplies to our customers if the drought continues. "
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Well it's not like I would have my hosepipe on for a whole hour anyway. I just needed it to use my pressure washer for my car, which would use about half a bucket of water up at the most, yet they let you use a full bucket of water and sponge to wash your car and not a hosepipe. This seems illogical, yet what would the consequences be if I did use the hosepipe and got reported? I was never sent an offical confirmation directly to me or my parents not to use a hosepipe, just whats seen on the news and on the United Utilities website. What if I didn't watch the news of have a PC - how would I even know this ban was in place?

Should I test the water and see if anyone reports me - and would it just be a small warning if they did find out the first time?
 
Use the water, who is going to know?

No offical news sent to you, wish we had a hoseban up here - would mean we were getting some decent weather :/
 
Contravening a temporary water restriction is a criminal offence in the United Kingdom under the Water Industry Act 1991. Although offenders are usually warned, they are liable upon conviction to a fine not exceeding £1,000 under the terms of the Act.
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It's probably fine though.
 
Begbie said:
Use the water, who is going to know?

No offical news sent to you, wish we had a hoseban up here - would mean we were getting some decent weather :/
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Unless I had some absolute ********* on the street reporting me, then nobody would find out. Never seen the police around here its only a small village.
 
I live in manchester and ive only just found out there is a ban... i was considering washing the car earlier as well.

I dont watch TV and ive seen nothing on the internet/bbc about it.
 
Swifty55 said:
Take it to a car wash?
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No. I would resort to washing it at work if I have to, there are hosepipes there which are used to wash machinery down.

Why should I have a carwash do it, it's my money I don't want spent just to wash my car, I'm happy to do it myself. They use just as much water as me anyway.
 
And has any authority got any past figures for the number of people actually fined/procescuted for using hoses ??

Surely the amount of money/time wasted processing it, would negate any benefit...... And will there be a larger proportion of middle/class - upper/class people fined (as they are more likely to get the money quickly/easily) rather than someone who would agree to pay the fine £1 a week. Do the fines actually go back into the millions it costs them to repair their 100 year old leaky pipes - or the 30% pay increases they award top management ?
 
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Since when is washing a car a priority, its not. Adhere to the ban, use a bucket if you have or even that place called a car wash.

A hosepipe ban is what it says. What makes you so special that you have to wash a bloody car with a hose. It won't die without a wash.
 
simulatorman said:
Since when is washing a car a priority, its not. Adhere to the ban, use a bucket if you have or even that place called a car wash.

A hosepipe ban is what it says. What makes you so special that you have to wash a bloody car with a hose. It won't die without a wash.
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Because the hose would use less than a full bucket? It is a priority anyway. Why don't they just cap the household usage instead, depending upon the number of people who live there? Would be far more effective on actually saving water, I can't see a hosepipe ban saving as much.
 
I can't see hosepipe bans actually saving anything. People will still use water whatever way - other than hosepipes. If I need to water my plants/veg or wash my car - I'm still going to use 20 buckets a day rather than a hose as I've done in the past - and my father has done for the last 35 years.

If they would get off their backsides and put money into fixing the distribution networks (which is where over 40%) of the losses occur even before it reaches our homes - they would have to have teams/divisions monitoring the usage/bans so much.

United Utilities (which recently introduced a ban) - has admitted thieir leaking pipes spewed out an average 460 million litres of water a day....so I doubt a few hundred people not using a hose every day will make little difference.
 
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[TW]Fox;16912928 said:
No way would it - hoses use a huge, huge amount of water. Many, many times more than a bucket.
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But using a pressure washer connected to the hose? Would only spray a max of one minute, would use less than a bucket of water.
 
PASONIX said:
If they would get off their backsides and put money into fixing the network (which is where over 40% - 3.3Billion litres last year) of the losses occur even before it reaches our homes) - they would have to have teams/divisions monitoring the usage/bans so much.
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that's twice you've changed that figure 75% , 25 % or 40%, why one is accurate or are you making them up?


A lot of water has gone from the reservoirs, Crummock water (which isn't a reservoir) has been a lot lower than usual this last month, so I can imagine a reservoir would be struggling to provide what's necessary
 
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