This hosepipe ban in Yorkshire.....

Priv said:
North Yorkshire Police had to put a social media post out yesterday telling people to stop ringing 999 to grass up their neighbours, pointing out the ban hadn’t started yet and that it wasn’t a police matter regardless.
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Their neighbours are only trying to get their grass up too.
 
Erm? If you fill your ‘ot tub’ by bucket or hose doesn’t it use the same amount of water ?? Either way your just making human soup which sounds disgusting.
 
Boro4life said:
I think you probably lose less water with a hosepipe than a bucket as if your filling up a bucket and tipping in bound to be more water that splashes out during the process
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In the long hot summer of 76 during the hosepipe ban, our next door neighbour in Berwick Hills was filling up a paddling pool using a bucket and the kitchen tap. I was 19 at the time and didn't want to say anything to someone of my mam's age but she was leaving the water running during her trips down the garden path.
 
Muttley said:
We need checkpoints all along the Tees make sure none of you pudding munchers are hopping over the border to wash yerr cars.

Durham water is for Durham folk.
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We're all using Northumbria's water.

Apart from Hartlepool, which bizarrely has its own company.
 
I'm friends with a lad who worked for many years at Yorkshire Water at a senior level, including many years before privatisation.

He said in the dry summers before privatisation all that was needed was for the CEO to go on Look North (the Leeds version) and ask everyone to be careful and use a bit less water. Water consumption fell and everything was generally OK.

Post privatisation this just didn't work. The request was ignored by the population and water consumption didn't change. They don't even bother with the CEO going on local news anymore. What was previously seen as a Public Utility in which we all had some stake, just became another private company which people didn't feel any responsiblility to help.
 
Massimo's Header said:
I'm friends with a lad who worked for many years at Yorkshire Water at a senior level, including many years before privatisation.

He said in the dry summers before privatisation all that was needed was for the CEO to go on Look North (the Leeds version) and ask everyone to be careful and use a bit less water. Water consumption fell and everything was generally OK.

Post privatisation this just didn't work. The request was ignored by the population and water consumption didn't change. They don't even bother with the CEO going on local news anymore. What was previously seen as a Public Utility in which we all had some stake, just became another private company which people didn't feel any responsiblility to help.
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It would be really interesting to see some data about the impact it even has announcing hosepipe bans these days
 
I don't understand why people water (established) grass with tap water that's gone through expensive purification processes for human consumption. Just let it go golden, it always comes back exactly the same. Also can't understand why people don't have water butts, I've got loads of them and never need to use tap water for gardening. It's a total waste, I'd rather spend my hard earned on beer.
 
Yorkshire water have some fuggin neck threatening people with a £1000 fine for using a hosepipe, when they are the worst "leak" offender in the UK, losing 240 million litres a day through leaks.

To put that in perspective, in 2024 that was over 50 litres of leaked water per person per day.

The absolutely toothless regulator should impose fine on the water companies if they lose more than 10% of the water usage in leaks (Yorkskire is currently at over 21% leakage)
 
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