Sorry, the whole of the UK has been blanketed in rain for the best part of a week, and for the week to come! We're a friggin island surrounded by water!! I for one will not be taking any hose pipe ban seriously, and continue to use water as I need! I mean we DO pay for it after all!
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crunchman said:Bargain.
Seriously, pretty much every carpark in St Albans, Watford and Hemel Hempstead has hand car washes at a fiver.
At Tescos in Watford I think they are employed by Tescos as they have tesco trolleys with big poles on the side with the number that your car wash is.
Is this not happening everywhere?
Oracle said:
So the industry is lying to you? I'm lying to you? If you continue to use the water, then i hope your one of the people who get prosecuted. And if not, then you'll be directly contributing to the situation and i'll sit back and laugh when they resort to using standpipes in your area. How you going to use water when all connections off the mains are shut off?
A ha I have got it. So you are not allowed to wash you car with a hosepipe, yet you are allowed to fill your swimming pool up with one... right? Well Drive you car into the swimming pool them and wash it there as you fill it up!
Seriously though we have had consistant rain around this area (somerset) all weekend.
Seriously though we have had consistant rain around this area (somerset) all weekend.
Windle said:
You have failed to respond to my question with some poxy answer! Why is there a hose pipe ban!? Because the water companies are to far up their own backsides that they cant fix simple leaks...
In addition, I do pay for my water!? Where does that money go!? Are your jeans lined nicely with our hard earned, because I dont see it being put back into fixing problems!
I use less water through my hose pipe than I do filling a bucket for washing my car, so i'll continue to do so......and afterwards, i'll have a nice long soaking bath whilst the dishwasher cleans my dishes! For Gods sake, this is 2006 you know, not 1896!
Hmmm all these people complaining about the water companies not fixing leaks.
I wonder how many thousands of miles of iron pipework would have to be replaced with clay ones or plastic ones? They're underground, and as previously stated lie under fields, roads, buildings; all of which would have to be torn up (or down) in order to grant access to the pipes.
How many of you would be prepared to endure a couple of years of disruption to allow the network to be replaced or repaired suitably? Not many, I'll bet.
No point in piping water down from the North, not until they fix the leaks in the south. Maybe they should just build a completely new network, one that won't corrode and will always be accessible.
I wonder how many thousands of miles of iron pipework would have to be replaced with clay ones or plastic ones? They're underground, and as previously stated lie under fields, roads, buildings; all of which would have to be torn up (or down) in order to grant access to the pipes.
How many of you would be prepared to endure a couple of years of disruption to allow the network to be replaced or repaired suitably? Not many, I'll bet.
No point in piping water down from the North, not until they fix the leaks in the south. Maybe they should just build a completely new network, one that won't corrode and will always be accessible.
Oracle said:
And in turn, you have failed to read my previous comments in this thread which would have answered your "poxy" question. Despite the fact Britain is an island, surrounded by water as you say... Desalinisation is expensive, time-consuming and NOT effective. Despite your "We've had rain for 2 weeks!" cry we have had 2 years of dry summers AND dry winters. In these 2 years, a phenomenal amount of new houses have been built, utilising a network already under strain. Aquifiers and Boreholes are at their lowest levels for 70years or so, sinking new boreholes and aquifiers won't fix the problem as they'll draw from the same water table. Empty aquifiers and boreholes means there's nothing to fill the reservoirs, leading to a supply problem, leading to hosepipe bans.
Yes, there are leakage problems. Why? Because the network is hugely outdated, can it be easily upgraded? No! Is the leakage the cause of the hosepipe ban? No, leakage accounts for a max of 30% (going by the worst figures from Thames) but the supply deficit is more like 70%. Solution? Huge amounts of money needs to be sunk into the water network, not just by the companies but the government needs to sink in money as well due to the huge cost and scale of such an exercise. Housing needs slowed, blame all the new houses in your area for a hosepipe ban. As above, you quite clearly have not read my earlier replies to other people. Companies do put a lot of money back into the network both in leakage detection and in repairs, you just think you know better than everyone else don't you?
And yes , it is 2006. Our weather is getting worse, less rain yet we're still building massive housing developments requiring more and more water we don't have. Breaking point? Nearly..
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What has building houses got to do with water consumption? Houses don't use water, people use water (well ok it requires some water to build houses but I wouldn't have thought that would be significant). Building houses does not create more people, the people were there already.Windle said:
Visage said:
Yeah because those victorian pipe systems were replaced under which labour Govt....... Now they actually are being replaced by private companies.
Much of our countries infrastructure is Victorian and who is paying to replace it because I am not seeing Labour doing much .....
