Washing With Hosepipe Ban

Do you not feel that Wessex water are being anti-social by not carrying out the repairs even tho you have reported this to them many times over 3 3 month period, letting the gallons of water pouring out???

hence stuff wessex water!!!!

Probably.

Here in the alledged sunny south coast, Southern Water couldn't run the proverbial brewery party. I pay for what I use rather than a fixed rate, therefore if I have paid for it, legally it is now my property to do as I wish. So if I want to wash my car, water the plants etc, that's my business. It narks me that I get charged to take away water that falls out of the sky. Could they charge me for this if I had no drains or gutters? As to this "Shop A Neighbour" hotline, how bloody petty. No wonder people don't talk to each other these days.

Bottom line, the end usage responsibility for the water I have bought is down to me.

PDH

Should you ever be summonsed for using a hosepipe, I am sure that the Magistrate will be interested in your views.

The message from "Neil - Usenet" contains these words:

That may very well be true, but it doesn't excuse selfish wasting of water when it's short.

The message from "Paul Hubbard" contains these words:

No. If your rainwater is not discharged into their waste system then they shouldn't charge you. If you are sure yours isn't and you're being charged for taking it away anyway complain.

This being the point in hand, I *don't* waste water, I am aware of every drop I use. I try to economise and use as minimal amount of water as possible. I don't let taps run, I make sure I get the most out of the toilet before flushing, even unused water left over in the pot used to clean up the rear end of my nipper is used to water the house plants.

My problem is that regardless of how much economising I take, I am still lionised by the water companies with what amounts to a 1984 mantra while they allow millions of gallons of water to escape their pipes because they would much rather give the money to a greedy grabbing shareholder and keep the share price high and the divvy flowing. The non-shareholder and user is being made to feell alienated at every turn by what amounts to nothing more than a smoke and mirrors act.

Now tell me I can't use my pressure washer?

PDH

I know a couple of Magistrates, they are not happy at the potential of having their time wasted by this issue when they would much rather be deaing with matters that Joe Public would like properly tackled, like crime.

PDH

The message from "Paul Hubbard" contains these words:

If the rules say you can't use your pressure washer then you can't use your pressure washer.

Makes you wnder how they get on in one of those scandic countries where it is against the law to drive around in a dirty car.

PDH

The message from "Paul Hubbard" contains these words:

I'd be stuffed for a start.

Well if you don't use the hosepipe then you won't be wasting their time

If you ever go there it's pretty obvious why they don'y have a water shortage.

Changing the subject slightly, why do we have so many hosepipe bans in this country? We are a small island, surrounded (as islands tend to be) by a not-inconsiderable amount of water. It rains frequently, yet we have a couple of dry days and suddenly we are all going to die of thirst. Maybe it is time for the water companies to forget about shareholders for one moment and to consider their customers - after all, we get robbed of around 300 quid a year for water so it's not unreasonable to expect to be able to use it as and when we wish. Maybe if they spent less time banning hosepipes and more time fixing the leaking pipes in the ground (which I suppose would upset shareholders, as it would cost them) there would be no problem?

I was on one of the Greek islands a couple of years ago - apparently they never have any problems like this as they desalinate the sea water, surely if they can do it then this allegedly advanced nation can do the same?

Hellraiser.............>

Paul Hubbard ( snipped-for-privacy@ntlworld.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Which "scandic" country's that, then?

"Hellraiser" wrote

We don't need to, we have abundant rainfall.

We just don't collect enough.

Hellraiser ( snipped-for-privacy@nospam.blueyonder.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Which is, in case you've not been to the beach lately, salty.

Oh, and there's a fuckload of people on this small island, many of whom insist on using umpty-seven gallons of fresh treated potable water to wash their car every other day.

Add in the fact that the water companies don't give a s*it and will quite happily waste a very large percentage of their water through leaks if it'll cost them anything to repair said leaks...

The message from "Hellraiser" contains these words:

It's expensive.

They'd be unlikely to know that it wasn't going into their drains, so 'complain' doesn't seem an appropriate start.

Some years ago (maybe now each year) SW's annual bumph included a note explaining how, in such case, to have that element of their charges removed: filling-in a simple form has since saved us about £10 p.a., IIRC.

Incidentally, I see no reason to be 'narked' at such charge: rainwater would go through the same sewage-treatment plants as everything else, and running them is at least as expensive per cu. metre (in most districts, more) as supplying the drinkable water.