Water Restrictions.

[padi56]

So there's a hosepipe ban in certain area"s of Wales, and west England. Everyone knows that, no plant watering no car washing no lawn sprinkling - no nothing.

So facing a weekend of too much bleeding football, I was searching for alternative projects and called my local Water company.

Padi: There's a hosepipe ban correct?
Jobsworth: Yes Sir
Padi: So I can't use a hosepipe
Jobsworth: No Sir
Padi: It says on your website I can use a hose to clean my patio
Jobsworth: Yes Sir
Padi: So I can use a hosepipe?
Jobsworth: Yes Sir - to clean your patio
Padi: Can I use a pressure washer?
Jobsworth: Yes - if you are cleaning a patio or driveway.
Padi: So, I can use a pressure washer all day, every day, to clean my patio?
Jobsworth:Yes If you really want to Sir
Padi: But I can't use it for 10 minutes to clean my car or water the plants?
Jobsworth: No Sir that against the new water enforcement law.??
Padi: What if I clean my patio and driveway and miss and get the car and plants by accident?
Jobsworth: Well, if it's an accident, that's fine sir. If you do it on purpose, it's an offence. There's a £1,000 fine.

And on and on and on

Net result. I've now got sparkly clean decking, all neatly pressure washed. Out the back garden the tropical plants are looking splendid thanks to the accidental showers they received during this morning.

Driveway tomorrow- must remember to leave the car in the middle of it.

What a bunch of A/holes, you can spend all day spraying water over your drives and paved area. But if you spend 10 minutes saving the life of a sweet pea, you're nicked.It's the lunacy of the rules that amazes me. You cannot hose a car for 10 minutes, but can p!s# the stuff all over your driveway 24/7 if you want to.If you ask me, this hose pipe ban is boll#x... it rains all the time and we are an island surrounded by water... yet we have a hose pipe ban in places.WTF???.

Could future wars be fought over water,and not oil.The main problem
with the water companies at the moment.They are to busy given them
selves huge pay-rises.Instead of concentrating,on the leaks in the
very antiquated Victorian pipe system.One part of England has more leaks,that the leeks in Wales on St Davids day.

[JJ Irani]

Good rant, Padi...makes sense!

[Uncle-AJ]

If you are short of water Padi, I'll send you some from Saudi.

[padi56]

Originally Posted by Uncle-AJ

If you are short of water Padi, I'll send you some from Saudi.

Would agree Adrian in-fact all the places I have seen around the Middle East always seems a abundance of water.Think for garden they use desalinised sea water.All the gardens are all lush and in Sharm they have one of the greenest golf courses I have ever seen,in the middle of the Sinai bloody dessert.But here in the UK have 10 days of unusual dry weather half the country has a water shortage.

[silverman]

Yeah here in Sydney,Australia we have water restrictions as well.Have to wash your car with a bucket which actually uses more water,but our beaurocrats dont listen and obviously dont wash there cars.Also can only water the gardens on certain days and between certain hours.
Welcome to my world !!!!!!!!!!!

[dman]

We are only "allowed" to water the grass on Monday and Thursday right now. Granted it has not rained in about two months and most of that time it has been in the high 90's. So I just tend to move Dylan's slip and slide around the yard and turn it on, granted he isn't playing with it ever.

[padi56]

Bet they still water and pamper the golf courses Daren.

[ji603]

Lol...

"Do you have a fish licence, sir?:"

:)

I live in the largest natural preserve of fresh water in the world. Believe it or not, we have water restrictions in the summer, if it gets too dry for too long.

However, those bans are few and far between.

If water becomes the new 'oil' and given the potential of the Athabaskan Tar Sands... and given the USA's tactic of invading countries to 'liberate' them from oppressive governments (only to rape their natural resources)....

I better start spelling and talking like an Amarikan pretty soon.

[padi56]

Originally Posted by Atomic

I live in the largest natural preserve of fresh water in the world. Believe it or not, we have water restrictions in the summer, if it gets too dry for too long.

However, those bans are few and far between.

If water becomes the new 'oil' and given the potential of the Athabaskan Tar Sands... and given the USA's tactic of invading countries to 'liberate' them from oppressive governments (only to rape their natural resources)....

I better start spelling and talking like an Amarikan pretty soon.

Now John that could be very true,especially now with planet Global warming.I would not be surprised in the next 50 odd years,around places like the Jordan Valley and other ancient water systems.Like the Nile, the Tigris and the Euphrates.And the Sea of Galilee is now at its lowest level since the biblical times.And wars will be fought about water, and not the black oil in the ground.So perhaps the most precious thing water,now the everyday occurrence, that we just take for granted,with a turn of a tap.Will be the cause of not to distant future wars..

Originally Posted by Atomic

I live in the largest natural preserve of fresh water in the world. Believe it or not, we have water restrictions in the summer, if it gets too dry for too long.

However, those bans are few and far between.

If water becomes the new 'oil' and given the potential of the Athabaskan Tar Sands... and given the USA's tactic of invading countries to 'liberate' them from oppressive governments (only to rape their natural resources)....

I better start spelling and talking like an Amarikan pretty soon.

Actually John, the free trade agreement signed by Mulroney (no, not Ben ) pretty much guarantees that the US won't have to invade. Under the free trade agreement we are obligated to sell them water once we start to, and I believe we already have. Of course we could always break the free trade agreement, but then as you say we might as well start talking like Americans, because that is their way of doing things (free tade as long as they get the best deal)......softwood lumber, anyone?

Originally Posted by Avalon

Actually John, the free trade agreement signed by Mulroney (no, not Ben ) pretty much guarantees that the US won't have to invade. Under the free trade agreement we are obligated to sell them water once we start to, and I believe we already have. Of course we could always break the free trade agreement, but then as you say we might as well start talking like Americans, because that is their way of doing things (free tade as long as they get the best deal)......softwood lumber, anyone?

Agreed... softwood lumber was likely the test-bed for future water supplies. But if we resist to sell water, that's when the expeditionary forces will arrive to liberate us from our oppressive government with it's heavy socialist tendancies.

As for Lyin' Brian Mulroney....

As for Ben (aka Count Chocula) ...