Yes, if you are prepared to use that "treated" water in your pond. We find that filling with mains water encourages teh growth of blanket weed, so we always try to use a water from a rainwater butt.
veolia water serves parts of Essex, they have a hosepipe ban
In message , Peter Parry writes
Does this mean we'll be seeing lot of well-bathed people around for the next six months?
That's good info. I reckon that things have changed quite a bit since the last ban, when I'm sure that almost any use of the hosepipe was forbidden.
In message , charles writes
Because delegation is the key to effective management?
I'm pretty sure* that, at one time, this wasn't the case (at least, not with my water company).
*Please excuse me for not bothering to check that I am 100% correct.
My reading of the bans in the papers state that it is a ban on potable water, so bath water would not count. However, if your neighbour saw you . . .
Jonathan
That will depend entirely upon the order that applies to the area where you live. Each water authority can and does apply its own rules on what is and is not banned and it is not even necessarily the same across each region. The details for your area should be published on the web.
Colin Bignell
I am going to do my bit.
I use less water rinsing down my van using a hosepipe with the correct attachment (ie one that stops the water when I do not need it) than using the 4 buckets of water needed to rinse it down when using buckets.
However, as I am a law abiding citizen I am going to use 4 buckets of water to rinse down the van and I will leave the tap running at the kitchen sink between the bucket refills.
Or, paint the end of the hose pink, thread it up your trouser leg and out your flies, and water the lawn at night,
any harry's spying on you will think your just having an extremely long piss,
1) SWMBO looked into it and is installing Hozelock drip irrigation stuff. Here, (South-East Water) you must have a timer, a pressure reducer, and not have spray heads off the 4mm pipe. Or you can use watering cans. 1) This is not going to be policed.
Quite possibly, but most of it is covered by Essex and Suffolk water, and they don't have a ban at the moment.
Well we can sue the neighbours, it would seem, if they overuse water and refuse polite requests to desist.
You mean you'll behave like a twerp? Oh come now, I don't believe it!
No:-) I will still use the hosepipe and save water doing it my way.
Harry can still use it as a sex toy.
We won't have a ban, we haven't had one in the last half a century.
Undertaker? Who died?
-=20 Davey.
I looked up our rules, and you're allowed to wash your van because it's a commercial vehicle.
Andy
They also cover a lot of Suffolk, (duh!), and along the boundary between Suffolk and Norfolk, otherwise known as The River Waveny, on one side you can use a hosepipe, on the other side, you can't. We're lucky, this time around. Last time, it was the opposite.
What's all this talk of a "Hosepipe ban"? It can't really be an offence to own a hosepipe, can it?
I don't see why.
If you believe the currently running TV ads, maybe not, but they do also say they run from rainwater butts, so maybe they are hedging their bets on that one. Brian
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