Hose pipe ban?

ttaskmaster said:
Depending on the local authority, the water company might not be allowed to fill it in themselves. The road must be reinstated to whatever standard the council wants, which usually means they insist on their own team to come and do it.


Why can't you get your local council to do most things, on the most convenient day? Same reason.


Road surface, yes. Gullies and associated drainage are usually Highways' responsibility, just as track drainage is for the railways.
However, it often (but not always) joins the main public Surface Sewers, which are the water companies' responsibility. Unfortunately, these oftenh end up blocked because people do things like pouring concrete down them, sweeping roadd into them, stuffing matresses in them, etc etc. A lot of that rubbish you see discarded along the sides of roads - It's the council/Highways' responsibility to keep that cleaned up, but it's also what tends to block up the Surface Sewers as well.
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The council don't fill in after the water company, not here anyway, water company use their own contracted company to do it. Leccy DNO the same.
 
I'll go for the Blue Badge exemption - carrying a bucket is far too much like hard work, particularly when I have to make 43 trips, balancing it on my lap...

...not that Portsmouth Water have any possible excuse for bringing in a ban.
 
LeeUK said:
The council don't fill in after the water company, not here anyway, water company use their own contracted company to do it. Leccy DNO the same.
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Like I said, it depends on the council. Some like to try and get all utilities works done at the same time, which means you're often left waiting for the first one to finish, so you can do your part... and then the hole is left open until the next lot come along, etc etc.....
 
Guildford has had zip rain.. we have the odd evil cloud but the sun pops out again..

Reached 69.9 degC and 10% humidity in the conservatory yesterday..
 
What’s really ridiculous is that we are all watering our gardens and flushing our loo’s with high quality drinking water. I have no idea why building regs for new houses don’t require brown water storage systems, solar panels etc it seems like a total no brainier to me and could potentially have a significant environmental
Impact.
 
Bug One said:
Do we need hose pipe bans? Now everyone has a water meter - people don't waste as much as they used to.
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Only 50% of households have a water meter and they don’t actually drastically reduce peoples consumption a bit like smart meters everyone is super good when they first get one but then relaxes back into old ways soon enough.
 
a1ex2001 said:
Only 50% of households have a water meter and they don’t actually drastically reduce peoples consumption a bit like smart meters everyone is super good when they first get one but then relaxes back into old ways soon enough.
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I'd argue that if people knew they'd be billed for the water they actually use, they'd think twice about running a garden sprinkler during the summer.

I bet among the 50% who've avoided a meter, are some very green gardens.
 
a1ex2001 said:
What’s really ridiculous is that we are all watering our gardens and flushing our loo’s with high quality drinking water. I have no idea why building regs for new houses don’t require brown water storage systems, solar panels etc it seems like a total no brainier to me and could potentially have a significant environmental
Impact.
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Up front cost, short term thinking government, which is why we are in the mess we are in.
 
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