Water shortage / Hot Weather

[Spartan]

Thames Waters 2017 drought plan.

from looking at the exemptions on the screenshot I took - WFP would be exempt on a couple of reasons.

1. for health & safety regulations /working at height restrictions, which are exempt.

2. Where it’s used as part of a service in the course of a business.

i suppose if the hot weather continued that could also be clamped down on. Personally I think a good idea would be to wfp the tops and traditional the bottoms - that way your water usage would halve straightaway.

 

[spruce]

Thames Waters 2017 drought plan.

from looking at the exemptions on the screenshot I took - WFP would be exempt on a couple of reasons.

1. for health & safety regulations /working at height restrictions, which are exempt.

2. Where it’s used as part of a service in the course of a business.

i suppose if the hot weather continued that could also be clamped down on. Personally I think a good idea would be to wfp the tops and traditional the bottoms - that way your water usage would halve straightaway.

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Agree.

There are different catagories of restrictions/bans depending on the severity of the drought. If the drought is severe enough and standpipes and/water bowsers are our only way of collecting drinking water, then we won't be able to clean wfp period.

 

[Spartan]

Agree.

There are different catagories of restrictions/bans depending on the severity of the drought. If the drought is severe enough and standpipes and/water bowsers are our only way of collecting drinking water, then we won't be able to clean wfp period.

Agree.

if the Temporary Use Ban needs to be raised even further then special drought measures take over and we’d all be in the crapper.

However, I’m fully confident that the great British summer won’t let us down and that it’ll be peeing down heavily for most of August  and no doubt we’ll have flood warnings on the news! ?

 

[Cottonlung]

For an island surrounded by water and a growing population, you'd think by now they would use the millions of £££ on laser guided bombs and other ninesense that have no real affect on anything and use it on distilleries.. im paying for my water and by God I'm gonna use it 

 

[cleancut]

I live in the south east and the last Hose pipe ban didn’t effect wfp because of health and safety legislation.


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[dmw]

I just say "business exemption " as a simple answer, even though it can vary from area to area.

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[Seth]

http://www.hosepipeban.org.uk/2012/03/27/southern-water-hosepipe-ban-restrictions-2012/

I know it's for 2012, but according to the exemptions we are fine

@Incheck just had a look at Welsh water, they have no plans for a van anytime soon, went past one of the reservoirs today and it's pretty much full

Aye, but is that water allocated for England.? Serious question as lot of reservoirs in Wales were built for Englands use.

 

[Part Timer]

There isn't a shortage of water in reservoirs, they are struggling to produce enough due to demand. That's what I've heard as we had a very wet spring so most reservoirs are relatively full. 

 

[scottish cleaning service]

There isn't a shortage of water in reservoirs, they are struggling to produce enough due to demand. That's what I've heard as we had a very wet spring so most reservoirs are relatively full. 

Never fear, Loch Ness has more fresh water than England and Wales combined so we can lend you some. :1f609:

 

[Part Timer]

Never fear, Loch Ness has more fresh water than England and Wales combined so we can lend you some. :1f609:

We don't need any, we've Kielder Water 

 

[Clisty1989]

Aye, but is that water allocated for England.? Serious question as lot of reservoirs in Wales were built for Englands use.

I'd assume so, considering its 70 miles away from the border

 

[spruce]

Never fear, Loch Ness has more fresh water than England and Wales combined so we can lend you some. :1f609:

We are already tuned into Kielder dam in the Scottish boarders as @Part Timer posted. Our local water authority uses local supply from local dams first though.

 

[Incheck]

Aye, but is that water allocated for England.? Serious question as lot of reservoirs in Wales were built for Englands use.

I think the ones in north wales may supply the west midlands/merseyside & manchester but i could be wrong


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[Seth]

I think the ones in north wales may supply the west midlands/merseyside & manchester but i could be wrong


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Aye!  

The reservoirs below me are for the Midlands and the like. Not sure about rest of Wales. 

 

[spruce]

Aye!  

The reservoirs below me are for the Midlands and the like. Not sure about rest of Wales. 

Hose pipe ban in New Mills nr Manchester an old friend tells me today.

 

[cornishcraig]

All my water comes from a bore hole so no water bills or water companies dictating what I can or can't do.

 

[spruce]

All my water comes from a bore hole so no water bills or water companies dictating what I can or can't do.

True, but the level of ground water will dictate what you can and can't do.

Bore holes do run dry in our experience in Africa.

 

[Spartan]

All my water comes from a bore hole so no water bills or water companies dictating what I can or can't do.

What happens Cornish when your bore holes run dry?

is there a way you can connect to the mains water supply?

not necessarily with regard to your water purification it for your household use.... washing, showers, toilets etc....

 

[cornishcraig]

What happens Cornish when your bore holes run dry?

is there a way you can connect to the mains water supply?

not necessarily with regard to your water purification it for your household use.... washing, showers, toilets etc....

Don't think it would run dry, it's a supply from the farm it goes down at least a hundred feet underground.

No mains access so they would have to lay pipes and drains etc..

Only problems is power cuts cause the pump stops working!

 

[RWCleaning]

Raining here in Bournemouth 

 

[wee man]

It's not a water shortage over here ( in N.I) it's just they can't treat the water quick enough. Our reservoirs are near full.

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