Hose pipe bans

[K in Kent]

As has already been said it will vary between Water Authorities and depend on the type of ban they introduce.
With South East Water there are exemptions if you are dependent on water for your primary business function and are providing a commercial service to the public - at the moment under the hosepipe ban.

 

[Pjj]

Correction to my post yesterday saying we had a hose pipe ban , we haven’t but a drought order is in place but no ban very strange

 

[K in Kent]

I don't think such a ban would go into effect. Customers will not accept it and will refuse many services.

It's already in place and has been for several months throughout the south of England and London.
Customers are surprisingly accepting of hosepipe bans. It's fair enough that we all have to muck in if there's water shortages but no one seems to care about the astronomical wastage through leaks : SE Water is something like 80 million litres a day and Thames is approx 300 million - 300 MILLION LITRES PER DAY!! lost through leaks and poor management

 

[Iron Giant]

It's already in place and has been for several months throughout the south of England and London.
Customers are surprisingly accepting of hosepipe bans. It's fair enough that we all have to muck in if there's water shortages but no one seems to care about the astronomical wastage through leaks : SE Water is something like 80 million litres a day and Thames is approx 300 million - 300 MILLION LITRES PER DAY!! lost through leaks and poor management

Water companies are I believe mostly owned by investment companies these days so it's all about profit, Ofwat and the government should be doing something to ensure leaks and infrastructure is maintained and invested in as it should be

 

[steve garwood]

It's already in place and has been for several months throughout the south of England and London.
Customers are surprisingly accepting of hosepipe bans. It's fair enough that we all have to muck in if there's water shortages but no one seems to care about the astronomical wastage through leaks : SE Water is something like 80 million litres a day and Thames is approx 300 million - 300 MILLION LITRES PER DAY!! lost through leaks and poor management

You are correct. I’m Thames water and have reported 4 leaks in the last two weeks alone.
Not one has been fixed yet

 

[spruce]

At least we still have water when we open our taps.

Nephews in Pretoria can go without water for days. They each have 2 x 200 litre water butts in their garages to use when water is cut off. So not only does load shedding affect electricity supplies, but now water shedding is common.

They say that they have to have a backup for virtually every Government service. They both work from home, one for a government department and the other for ABSA bank. They both have to have UPS (uninterrupted power supply or source) so they can keep their computers running when their electricity is switched off.

While load shedding is a common practise with power grids across the world when demand exceeds supply, one way of tackling it in South Africa was to switch off electric hot water geysers by using ripple control during peak power demands. But we still had electricity.

We recently saw a video clip of raw sewage running down the streets in what was once one of South Africa's elite holiday resorts.

It's far worse in Zimbabwe where services now hardly exist. If you don't have a borehole, then you have no chance.

 

[steve garwood]

At least we still have water when we open our taps.

Nephews in Pretoria can go without water for days. They each have 2 x 200 litre water butts in their garages to use when water is cut off. So not only does load shedding affect electricity supplies, but now water shedding is common.

They say that they have to have a backup for virtually every Government service. They both work from home, one for a government department and the other for ABSA bank. They both have to have UPS (uninterrupted power supply or source) so they can keep their computers running when their electricity is switched off.

While load shedding is a common practise with power grids across the world when demand exceeds supply, one way of tackling it in South Africa was to switch off electric hot water geysers by using ripple control during peak power demands. But we still had electricity.

We recently saw a video clip of raw sewage running down the streets in what was once one of South Africa's elite holiday resorts.

It's far worse in Zimbabwe where services now hardly exist. If you don't have a borehole, then you have no chance.

Sounds like Sunderland

 

[Part Timer]

Sounds like Sunderland

To be fair with the lack of water, the murder rate and the lack of UK nationals it's definitely more like London

 

[K in Kent]

Water companies are I believe mostly owned by investment companies these days so it's all about profit, Ofwat and the government should be doing something to ensure leaks and infrastructure is maintained and invested in as it should be

It's staggering incompetence. But then all government is carried out by civil servants and incompetence has never stopped people getting on in the Civil Service.
At a time when water companies should be building resevoirs to store more water they're selling them off!! .... to property developers to build even more houses in areas that can't cope with the current population.
I mean it's commonsense isn't it? What do you do when a location is already stretched and over populated? Yes of course, move in more people - it's so obvious!! In Kent even the hotels are full all year round - with people who entered the country illegally. What a deterrent that is! Go to England illegeally and if you get caught by the police they put you up in a hotel. That's really going to stop them coming. The people that run this country are a joke.

 

[K in Kent]

At least we still have water when we open our taps.

Nephews in Pretoria can go without water for days. They each have 2 x 200 litre water butts in their garages to use when water is cut off. So not only does load shedding affect electricity supplies, but now water shedding is common.

They say that they have to have a backup for virtually every Government service. They both work from home, one for a government department and the other for ABSA bank. They both have to have UPS (uninterrupted power supply or source) so they can keep their computers running when their electricity is switched off.

While load shedding is a common practise with power grids across the world when demand exceeds supply, one way of tackling it in South Africa was to switch off electric hot water geysers by using ripple control during peak power demands. But we still had electricity.

We recently saw a video clip of raw sewage running down the streets in what was once one of South Africa's elite holiday resorts.

It's far worse in Zimbabwe where services now hardly exist. If you don't have a borehole, then you have no chance.

With population growth as it is globally there will be a global water shortage eventually and WWIII is likely to be fighting over natural resources whether it's water, oil or whatever = China vs USA

 

[Iron Giant]

It's staggering incompetence. But then all government is carried out by civil servants and incompetence has never stopped people getting on in the Civil Service.
At a time when water companies should be building resevoirs to store more water they're selling them off!! .... to property developers to build even more houses in areas that can't cope with the current population.
I mean it's commonsense isn't it? What do you do when a location is already stretched and over populated? Yes of course, move in more people - it's so obvious!! In Kent even the hotels are full all year round - with people who entered the country illegally. What a deterrent that is! Go to England illegeally and if you get caught by the police they put you up in a hotel. That's really going to stop them coming. The people that run this country are a joke.

Our water board was fined £20 million for polluting water courses but that was only through Storm Arwen they have been known even to dump sewerage in the rivers through the summer months and have been fined £100,000's for this just completely mad

The immigrant thing is an absolute joke and we have the French to blame for letting them get off their shores, but a £5-7 million cost was quoted last week as the daily cost to house this influx of immigrants, no wonder we have a gaping hole in the public finances