Hose Pipe Ban starts today in NorthWest

[Matt H]

My mum has a barrel connected to the down pipe from the roof drainage. It collects a lot of rain water, so might come in useful this time of the year when the hose pipes are banned and the garden needs watering.

[AndrewOW]

My mum has a barrel connected to the down pipe from the roof drainage. It collects a lot of rain water, so might come in useful this time of the year when the hose pipes are banned and the garden needs watering.

 

 

Well, that's what they are for, after all. I blame irrigation too.

[Matt H]

I blame irrigation too.

 

The problem may be more to do with colonic irrigation than just irrigation in general?

 

Surely the ban should reach to hose pipes up bums too?

[Westcoaster]

I'll sell you some water, £0.20 per litre!

 

This is the 3rd day of pi$$ing rain here!

[paul mac]

its called lack of investment in essential services over the years resulting in 3rd world services in a first world economy......

 

absolutely spot on, in the north west we have lots and lots and lots of rain, privatised utilities are not interested in tommorows infrastucture and investment they are only interested in todays whoppping profits, until regulators or government actually force these companies to sought out leaks and build new reservoirs this will only get worse.

If they reduced my bill for this reduced service i would stop using my hose pipe but until that happens they can go and *&$! themselves

[Matt H]

absolutely spot on, in the north west we have lots and lots and lots of rain, privatised utilities are not interested in tommorows infrastucture and investment they are only interested in todays whoppping profits, until regulators or government actually force these companies to sought out leaks and build new reservoirs this will only get worse.

If they reduced my bill for this reduced service i would stop using my hose pipe but until that happens they can go and *&$! themselves

 

£3.6 Billions sounds like a lot of investement to me.

 

http://www.unitedutilities.com/repairs.htm

 

Lancashire's getting £860m apparently. Only £7m of that on water collection, but perhaps if they sort the leaks, ready supplies will be better.

[JustGav]

£3.6 Billions sounds like a lot of investement to me.

 

http://www.unitedutilities.com/repairs.htm

 

Lancashire's getting £860m apparently. Only £7m of that on water collection.

 

Indeed, but think about the employment opportunities as well for locals.

[Charlotte]

its called lack of investment in essential services over the years resulting in 3rd world services in a first world economy......

 

Definitely. They're saying it's been dry this year but it certainly wasn't last year.

 

And what about all the floods we've had. Surely there is a way of turning that water into usable water?

[Matt H]

Indeed, but think about the employment opportunities as well for locals.

 

Always a positive in such sh!t times. Haven't they almost finished a massive new link from Preston to Manchester too?

[Matt H]

And what about all the floods we've had. Surely there is a way of turning that water into usable water?

 

That's naughty water and can't be used unfortuneatly

[Sharpie]

I wonder how many buckets I will use this weekend going over every panel of the car and the rinsing off etc. I may have to fill them with the hosepipe......

 

H.

 

I think the last hose pipe ban I was in ~2006 when I lived in Reading, I'm sure I used Sooo much more water using the bucket. Actually, it was technically possible to use the hose pipe to fill the buckets up.

 

I looked a right **** with the hose pipe out to my car and then filling each bucket up, every single time...what a waste of time!!

 

I have a power washer these days so, have the trigger pulled for a shorter period of time.

 

I see they make a good profit each year:

http://www.unitedutilities.com/6240.htm

[Evil_Nuts]

I'm gonna go to my local res with a few beers and replenish the levels a few gallons or so........I do believe Budweiser works best......

[snake]

:carwash:They could buy some shovels out of the water rates they get paid and dig another reservoir ,Then again you use less water and the bill stays the same .

[RiceRocket]

I really don't understand it though. You go abroad to a country that is hot hot hot, and all the hotel staff are there with their hose pipes watering the grass and cacti. I've never been away and come across a water shortage, yet in our country that has seen so much snow and rain at the beginning of the year, often gets a summer usage limit.

 

Somethings wrong somewhere.

 

its called lack of investment in essential services over the years resulting in 3rd world services in a first world economy......

 

Somebody told me recently that the Netherlands has ten times the water storage capacity of Britain

[paul mac]

£3.6 Billions sounds like a lot of investement to me.

 

http://www.unitedutilities.com/repairs.htm

 

Lancashire's getting £860m apparently. Only £7m of that on water collection, but perhaps if they sort the leaks, ready supplies will be better.

 

i think that says it all mate, £7m on water collection in the wettest part of the UK , to put that into perspective thats 3 decent houses overlooking Windermere , oh and just to add insult to injury i cant use my hosepipe but its p***ing down here

[razza]

this reminds me, I need to get my sprinkler out tomorrow

[paul mac]

this reminds me, I need to get my sprinkler out tomorrow

 

show off

[Rob]

The woman on Look North news was talking about "when the rains do come."

 

When the "rains" come? Its the bloody Lake District, not Namibia.

[Scott]

A what ban? Never heard of them being banned up here

[sdistc]

I don't know about the North, but here in London the problem seems to be more about inefficiency than capacity.

I've never seen so much wasted water than in this country - starts with old leaking water mains, and ends with toilets without dual flush, and showerheads without water saving measures. And if this is what it's like in domestic usage, I shudder to think how wasteful the industrial practices are - and that's the bulk of water use.

[Purity14]

My mum has a barrel connected to the down pipe from the roof drainage. It collects a lot of rain water, so might come in useful this time of the year when the hose pipes are banned and the garden needs watering.

 

If you collect all the water that hits your house, you get a reduction in water rates.

You just have to apply for an inspection.

[Havard]

If you collect all the water that hits your house, you get a reduction in water rates.

You just have to apply for an inspection.

 

I heard yesterday that if you want to install a domestic rainwater system for fulshing toilets, plant watering etc. You must pay £1000 for a site inspection from United Utilities.....

 

Plus they still charge you for your drainage...!!

 

H.

[Purity14]

My hippy friend who grows 'tatoes and things in his garden has catchtanks for all rainwater that lands on his roof.. he has had a reduction on his bill, a member of united utilities had to come to his house and inspect what he has done. No £1000 inspection or anything - maybe that is a commercial price?

 

Yes, but some reduction is better than none

[Havard]

My hippy friend who grows 'tatoes and things in his garden has catchtanks for all rainwater that lands on his roof.. he has had a reduction on his bill, a member of united utilities had to come to his house and inspect what he has done. No £1000 inspection or anything - maybe that is a commercial price?

 

Yes, but some reduction is better than none

 

This was for installing a tank under your garden and then pumping the water to your toilets etc. I imagine if you have a water butt then they don't charge you.

 

Either way it's lunacy gone mad..!!

 

H.

[Rob]

Who is this United Utilities?

 

I designed the new office building that I used to work in, before they binned me in redundancy, and that had a rainwater collection system, SUDS drainage in the car park and no connections to the mains sewage for surface water at all. We did get a reduction in water rates because mains supply is far less as the cysterns fill from the tank, but there was no inspection or fee. They still have to pay for foul sewage rates because the rainwater that flushes the toilets still goes down the toilet into the mains system.

 

I did a calculation on the installation costs versus the water rates savings, bearing in mind this was the smallest cheapest install they could afford, the payback was a minimum of 40 years.

 

Oh, and the toilet pans always look dirty 'cos the water is slightly tainted by being on the roof and then stored in an underground tank.....and you have electric costs for the pump that fills the cysterns.