Hose pipe ban

[Lazy Eric]

Don’t know where you live but our mains water is treated and then pumped using electric pumps! I think you need to visit a raw water treatment works before making a statement like that. I see the stuff that comes out the reservoirs to the clean safe water that comes out your tap. It quite impressive what they have to do with it. Our local plant uses hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of chemicals just to help separate the peat Colour from the water. Using millions of pounds worth of infrastructure. I was told several years ago Yorkshire waters electric bill was in excess of50 million a year.

 

[Werzle]

Wish they would stop farmers pumping water from the rivers too in dry spells, mate of mines livestock farm is being robbed of moisture via the water table by the spud and fruit men pumping from the river into lakes.

 

[Pilatus]

Wise words. Houses should have roof water used for toilet flushing at the very least.

The 2000 odd new houses to be built at Cirencester should definitely be built with rainwater collection system ,incorporated in to them,should be part of the Cotswold Planning stipulations.

 

[Pilatus]

Asking us to save water after such a wet winter spring just shows what a knife edge most of our water supply companies are on. As said in posts, more houses and more houses being built but hardly any more reservoirs ,sewerage works ,power stations being built ,doesn't take any genius to work out that supply demand for utilities are becoming way out of synch with one another.
Know doubt some "computer model is telling the utility companies everything is OK !!!!!!!!
TRUE STORY THIS, "Just like the computer model the Forestry Commission used ,which said it was ok to be cutting x amount of trees down over the x amount of years", only trouble is they recently discovered computer model had got it wrong!!!!!!!!
Forestry Comission has now apparently drastically reduced amount of felling ,creating a shortage of timber,prices for timber to go up, and forcing some forestry contractors out of business,so much for relying on computer models which in turn must be using information collated by humans.

I hope the computer programmes they use for predicting crude oil resources left on the planet are bit more reliable.

 

[7610 super q]

Unfortunately I've got a large one. ( garden ) Watering the lawn is a waste of time, in fact I like to see it burnt to a crisp so I don't have to mow it. Newly planted trees, roses and spuds need it though.
I'd get more than enough water off shed roofs to water it, but storage tanks are just so f**king expensive. Quite honestly it's just cheaper to use mains water.

 

[michael N123]

Unfortunately I've got a large one. ( garden ) Watering the lawn is a waste of time, in fact I like to see it burnt to a crisp so I don't have to mow it. Newly planted trees, roses and spuds need it though.
I'd get more than enough water off shed roofs to water it, but storage tanks are just so fudgeing expensive. Quite honestly it's just cheaper to use mains water.

Plenty of ibcs for sale for water storage

 

[7610 super q]

Plenty of ibcs for sale for water storage

Even they're £30-40 each.

 

[michael N123]

Even they're £30-40 each.

I got 4 for £50

 

[Lincs Lass]

Woman on bbc breakfast this morning saying its not a lack of water ,reservoirs are full ,,its the process of treating it and getting it into the pipes fast enough to cope with extra demand

 

[michael N123]

Woman on bbc breakfast this morning saying its not a lack of water ,reservoirs are full ,,its the process of treating it and getting it into the pipes fast enough to cope with extra demand

Then why are tankers pumping water into the mains pipes

 

[Lincs Lass]

Boosting the supply

 

[Steevo]

Don’t know where you live but our mains water is treated and then pumped using electric pumps! I think you need to visit a raw water treatment works before making a statement like that. I see the stuff that comes out the reservoirs to the clean safe water that comes out your tap. It quite impressive what they have to do with it. Our local plant uses hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of chemicals just to help separate the peat Colour from the water. Using millions of pounds worth of infrastructure. I was told several years ago Yorkshire waters electric bill was in excess of50 million a year.

Very true. Half the water supply of Bristol comes out of the canal - I doubt many would be keen to drink it if it was just pumped direct.

 

[DRC]

Friend of mine works for Severn Trent. Tries to go the extra mile with leaks , but gets no support from managers and says morale amongst the staff on the ground is very low.
He resigned as he was fed up of finding leaks that no one mended , but was persuaded to stay on.
Another company that is top heavy and more interested in share holders than getting the job done

 

[Netherfield]

They don't do enough regular dredging anymore either.
When Yorkshire water had to replace some valve gear on one of the now smaller reservoirs, the amount of silt pulled out was amazing, I seem to recall they gained around 20% extra capacity.

 

[Wooly]

Just put a hose pipe ban on now and preserve some water for later, especially as the UK are in an unprecedented heat wave that comes along a few times in your lifetime.

Better to have brown lawns and dirty cars, than to stand at stand pipes to get your drinking water !

 

[Bald Rick]

People aren't great at preserving water though. Turn a tap & out it comes. Drives me mad hearing the missus brush her teeth with the tap running and madder when my mother's carer put the tap on so the cat can have a "fresh" drink. Damn animal probably only intakes 50ml for about 6 litres of water out the tap. Grrrrrrr

 

[MrNoo]

The 2000 odd new houses to be built at Cirencester should definitely be built with rainwater collection system ,incorporated in to them,should be part of the Cotswold Planning stipulations.

I doubt it, Planning stipulations for section 106 are diddly squat at around 800K (from what I gather), seems no solar, no rainwater collection, nadda!! It should be rolled out nation wide, that all new houses built should have these facilities, you only have to drive around and half the houses have a sprinkler running on their lawn 24-7, so easily could be rain water but most just say it's "dirty"

 

[Martin Holden]

I doubt it, Planning stipulations for section 106 are diddly squat at around 800K (from what I gather), seems no solar, no rainwater collection, nadda!! It should be rolled out nation wide, that all new houses built should have these facilities, you only have to drive around and half the houses have a sprinkler running on their lawn 24-7, so easily could be rain water but most just say it's "dirty"

It should be mandatory for all new house to be built with solar panels and rainwater catching systems for sanitary use only. Obviously it would be too risky to store it for drinking water.

 

[Paddington]

Always thought Chinese washbasins are a god idea, where the waste pipe water is used to flush the loo, plus you can clean your teeth whilst having a pee (if male).

 

[badger nadgers]

I got 4 for £50

£15 each at auction here today.