Hose pipe ban?

I put up one of those big 'paddling' pools. Holds 2300litres, when I let the water out to clean the pool every 3/4 days I let it out over the lawn so no brown lawn here, it also really helps the blackbirds nesting in the garden, the ground is so hard they struggle to get worms out otherwise. Jumping in after work to cool down is great as well.
 
Storage reservoirs are probably all fine, it'll be the service reservoirs and the treatment plants that feed them that are at risk of struggling to keep up with the increase in demand.
 
Nasher said:
And live on an island surrounded by water :D

I don't know why we can't start doing more desalination tbh.
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because it costs a fortune, and most of the country still relies on pipes and reservoirs built in the Victorian age, hence one of the reasons why leakage is such an issue, that and not being able to easily access the worst affected areas because of other buildings/utilities.

#Chri5# said:
Seven Trent are averaging 88% full

https://www.stwater.co.uk/about-us/reservoir-levels/raw-water-storage-levels-18-june-2018/

Clwedog which takes 50,000 megalitres is 99.7% full!
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had 2 texts from Severn Trent already this weak warning about being able to treat enough water to keep up with demand so pressure may drop.
 
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Telecaster said:
Seems like PPP, the res' are full but they don't have the capacity to treat the water quick enough. Awesome.
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Round here it seems they can't cope with demand nothing to do with reserves which are ample.
Our old thermostatic shower has been cutting out due to low pressure the odd time.
Refuse to not water the garden though.
 
Vanquish-Storm said:
I got a text and email from UU this morning. If people don't stop using hose pipes they will enforce a hose pipe ban :o
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Fair to say in some areas they are and have been very low on water for weeks..

All regulatory cleaning works and capital works that will require large amounts of water have been stopped

Driving down from Saddleworth into Oldham you can tell this side has a few water issues!

In contrast Yorkshire Water have no water issues in terms of capacity but treatment of it in some areas is struggling to keep up!
 
robj20 said:
Same here went in the junk mail. If they want me to restrict my use they should charge less for those tints where restrictions are in place.
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I'll never understand attitudes like this. Given how long the hot weather has been going on and how long it's predicted to last it makes perfect sense to start with a basic campain to just spread awareness and ask people to regulate their usage. For many their use of water wont be something that even enters their mind and just asking snesible things like not washing your car or taking baths instead of showers seems perfectly snesible.

Ultimately if your on a water meter and follow their advice then you will be saving money anyway!
 
robj20 said:
Same here went in the junk mail. If they want me to restrict my use they should charge less for those tints where restrictions are in place.
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They're not asking people to cut down as such though, they're asking for people to not use such an excess compared to normal.

My local supplier is Southern and they were reporting a 70% increase in usage compared to normal levels. That's a huge amount of extra demand to try and meet for a short period, it would be madness to try to maintain treatment capacity for that much water long term.

If anything they should be charging more for the extra water people are using :p
 
If I cut down on use in the garden plants will die. I can't really drink less, we don't have a bath so shower anyway. Toilet policy is usually leave number ones be. I only wash the car once a month or so.
All this and the water reservoirs are all still well stocked. At least months left with this weather but I can't see it continuing that long.
 
I'm always amazed that our water supplies hold up as well as they do. 60 million users, few of whom will be used to thinking about how much water they really use, is a lot of demand to satisfy. I know we had a very wet period earlier in the year, but the wet sponge must be wrung dry, leaving little in the land to refill reservoirs.

Having said that, here in Macclesfield there's actually a little cloud in the sky today, which might be the start of a change. Can't come too soon, because there's no green left in anyone's lawn round here. I might never have to mow ours ever again at this rate.
 
robj20 said:
If I cut down on use in the garden plants will die. I can't really drink less, we don't have a bath so shower anyway. Toilet policy is usually leave number ones be. I only wash the car once a month or so.
All this and the water reservoirs are all still well stocked. At least months left with this weather but I can't see it continuing that long.
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To be honest you're probably not the sort of person it's aimed at. There will be people with sprinklers running 24/7, washing the dust and pollen off their car every other day, showering 3 times a day to cool down a bit, filling paddling pools every day etc.

Reservoir stocks aren't really relevant at this point, it's all about treatment capacity. You can have as much stored up as you want but if the works that it feeds can only treat 20MLD, then 20MLD is all you can put into the network, if people are using more then pressures will drop and people on the outer reaches of the networks may even lose supply entirely. Storage capacity will only become a concern if this keeps up for months.
 
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