You surely use more water watering your plants with a hose than you do with a watering can.
Plus, sprinklers are bad...
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Posted 1 year ago #
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You surely use more water watering your plants with a hose than you do with a watering can.
Why? My plants need a certain amount of water. I give it to them. I don't just randomly leave the hose there for a period and hope its ok, mainly because over-watering them is as bad as under-watering them.
Sprinklers are a different situation and could justifiably be banned.
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How can they actually check if your using a hose? What can they do if you are caught? Is the answer **** all to both?
A work colleague (who reads the Daily Mail) told me that he'd read that the water authorities flew helicopters about daily to check for green lawns.
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I don't just randomly leave the hose there for a period and hope its ok
You might not, but that doesn't mean others don't do it
Posted 1 year ago # -
can't understand why we don't just build more **** resevoirs
coz they are expensive and
require land.they have MASSIVE bonus's to pay outPosted 1 year ago # -
Green lawns don't mean a thing - you could be using your bath water, have your own bore-hole or maybe just have an astroturf lawn. It's more likely to be sniffy neighbours reporting someone.
Incidentally, according to Hozelock you can still use a hose for 'Water Play'. Just play on the lawn, kids.
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on the "how do they know" - i think they rely on people snitching and water company vans driving about.
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So where do I stand with my drip type watering system plumbed into our hanging baskets?
It runs on an automatic timer system for 15 minutes in the morning & the same in the evening, its on a regulator to give 1 bar as full mains pressure floods them.
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Apparently the Lakes ressies are low, so Manchester will be in drought, so united utilities are alledgedly using North Wales ressies (usually supply merseyside etc) for Manchester as well, meaning drought for the north west in general.
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Note the following from the article....
The company is investing £200m over the next five years on improving its pipe network and industry regulator OFWAT said UU did beat its leakage target by 5m litres a day and was ranked as one of the best performing companies in the UK.
UU has the largest area to serve in the UK of all the water companies. They have a lot more pipework to maintain and don't forget, it's a very rare thing for us to need a hosepipe ban, we're usually very lucky in the North West in that we have so much water we can usually sell some to the southerners. Leaks aren't a problem when your reservoirs are brimming over.
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