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.