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Hosepipe Ban

So, most of us here in the South East are going to be under a hosepipe ban.

Frankly it doesn't hugely affect me, I'll wash the cars over the next couple of days and water the garden and that should do well enough but I do find it a bit ridiculous when South East water loses a sixth of all water it produces to leakage across their network.

Surely there should be some sort of government target, we as the consumers pay for all of that leakage so surely that's a target?

Anyway, that's today's boring OT article.

Anything is better than thinking about the Fulham game

posted on 8/8/22

comment by Got_Better (U6241)
posted 26 minutes ago
I always ask...how are they going to enforce the ban?
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Relying on people grassing up their neighbours apparently...

posted on 8/8/22

comment by Angus Young (U3979)
posted 24 minutes ago
comment by Got_Better (U6241)
posted 26 minutes ago
I always ask...how are they going to enforce the ban?
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Relying on people grassing up their neighbours apparently...
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green grassing....?

Should look obvious

comment by Silver (U6112)

posted on 8/8/22

Been a good summer in Glasgow and there's still plenty water.

posted on 8/8/22

comment by moreinjuredthanowen (U9641)
posted 55 minutes ago
Well better get used to droughts in summer and floods in winter i reckon.

The precedents are well known round the world.

California for example. You have to pay a LOT to have a garden. they only allow yanks water once a week at this point every summer and are charging massively for it so people get rid of stuff that needs water.

I reckon europe will in general end up with way with masses of winter water and absolutely parched in summer.

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Southern Europe isn’t even getting winter rain. We’ve had next to nothing here for five years.

Our local reservoir (serves all of the Western Algarve) is at 12.5% capacity right now and across the country the situation is the worst since records began.

posted on 8/8/22

Plenty to spare in Northern Ireland.
Got a months rain in 2 hours last week.

comment by #4zA (U22472)

posted on 8/8/22

They gotta years whureth o rane in Death Valkey lassed weak

Global warming my ass

comment by #4zA (U22472)

posted on 8/8/22

Grass in our garden look like sheet

Rocky ground, lotsa varmints n drowt condoshuns as long as can remember

ffs

posted on 8/8/22

Pretty normal up north, it’s hot and dry, then it rains for a bit and then quite hot again, then you plan something outside and it rains for the day, followed by some nice weather again. Normal summer.

The last hosepipe ban up here was 20 odd years ago. Farmed for over 30 years and the only difference is the sun is hotter because of earths axis has shifted more than normal, they say global warming, but I don’t buy it.

comment by #4zA (U22472)

posted on 8/8/22

Earth is spinning moor fast niw to

They say in a phew! years a day will only lassed 10hours n we will b in eternal darkness

Also our sun is braking apart

posted on 8/8/22

comment by Wetherby White (U6810)
posted 2 hours, 40 minutes ago
Pretty normal up north, it’s hot and dry, then it rains for a bit and then quite hot again, then you plan something outside and it rains for the day, followed by some nice weather again. Normal summer.

The last hosepipe ban up here was 20 odd years ago. Farmed for over 30 years and the only difference is the sun is hotter because of earths axis has shifted more than normal, they say global warming, but I don’t buy it.
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You think 99.9% of scientists across myriad academic disciplines are wrong?

Based on what?

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