How stupid is the water ban
 

Water companies are now bringing in hosepipe bans to save water.

BUT, how pathetic are these rules, A normal resident is banned from using a hosepipe to clean his car or water his plants.
But you can go down the road and see Car Washers wasting thousands of gallons of water washing cars and allowing it to go down the drain.

And it states on the websites that you can wash a car using a bucket, IF not filled up by a hosepipe.

IF there is a hose pipe ban, then it should apply to everyone.:mad:

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You just don't think before posting do you
businesses are exempt for obvious reasons Arthur ,do you want to deprive people of their living ?

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Yes of course, then he can whinge about all that unemployment... :nutter:

If they announced a major reservoir, desalination and/or water programme he'd whine about the cost in terms of water prices and/or taxes and then be first to blame them when the weather suddenly turned wet again....

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Why do cars need to be clean anyway?

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The car wash just around the corner from me recycles the water it uses through filters and uses it again.

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If the drought continues then car washes will be shut down next as they where in '76 ,there are legal issues with having a dirty car as well ,involving lights ,number plate and the colour of the car

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It makes them run better. Didn't you know? :D

I use a waterless washing system anyway - it's fantastic.

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You cant stop the economy ticking though thats the crux of it.

However by stopping hosing they really dont do much preventation of the issue if many dont use them anyway. Although it only takes one its lot water consumption.

• Shower - 35 litres
• Bath - 80 litres
• Brushing teeth (tap on) - 6 litres/min
• Brushing teeth (tap off) - 1 litre
• Toilet - 7-9 litres
• Washing machine - 65 litres
• Dishwasher - 20 litres
• Washing car with bucket- 10 litres
• Hosepipe/sprinkler - 540 litres/hour

It maybe needs businesses reclye water bit more but it then needs filterisation process nobody turn up for dirty water car clean.

There article in beeb our only options one was huge migration from south east to more afluent water areas. Arthur do fancy living lake district or scotland. Get all the water you can drink and use :)

Cant see government doing this there baby is the south east.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17600062

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indeed the weight saving cannot be ignored :D

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They pay a lot more for the water than normal users IIRC

Maybe if the water companies didn't loose millions of gallons due to leaky pipes no one would need torecycle and of course the South East's their baby it provides most of the cash for their vanity projects.

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A cloth should do untill the ban is over, infact those rain water catchers should be installed for folk who wash the car in the droughts, seems crazy that fresh purified drinking water is used for something that really is unimportant

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Just move up north, we have plenty of water :)

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Hopefully that'll stop my neighbour across the road who kept leaving his/her sprinkler on from 9am till they got back from work at 5pm, last summer.

It's a shame the government kept declining permission to build more reservoirs, then perhaps we wouldn't have this problem AS often.

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Quite agree, but there is still the issue of people with car washing businesses and as The Daddy said they pay a lot more ,i believe the price is based on the rateable value of the land if they don't have a meter fitted

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Yes, it's not just the water companies who're culpable. Decades of government neglect, planning problems and more recently, rapid population growth in the SE have exacerbated the problem.

If weather patterns continue to be unpredictable then it's going to take a brave government and/or water industry to pump billions into drought or flood prevention measures.