Hose Pipe Ban - Yorkshire Water

Effective from Friday.
Hardly surprising, given the conditions. In fact, the only surprise is that they didn't bring it into force a lot sooner. Better late than never...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2073zy4k9o

 

Stand pipes

 

Investment. Yeah ok

 

Still wringing my clothes out from Sundays downpours.

 

I wouldn't be surprised. Anyone who does any walking/travelling around reservoir areas will have seen the lower than normal levels for a good long while. The forecast isn't looking wet either.

I can remember my Mum queuing to use a stand pipe in the 70s. Not good.

 

If only they had put the customer first instead of the shareholders, wouldn’t be in this mess now

 

Water companies have neglected investing in infrastructure, maintenance and building needed reservoirs for years whilst offloading millions of litres of sewage into public water ways and then come out with this they can get f****d for me il be pressure washing the drive this weekend

 

When there losing 21% due to leakage isn't that due to lack of maintainance by water company.

 

Who do you think that will adversely affect if the drought continues?

 

Walked past a few last week on the Peaks and they were very low, there was one which is fed from another near the M62 which was completely dry.

 

Worsbro res full to brim

 

From the Guardian….

Public ownership of the water industry in England and Wales is the best way to cut bills, reduce pollution and invest in repairing infrastructure, according to a wide-ranging people’s commission into the industry.

Set up by four academics with expertise in economics, water governance and the law to “fill the gaps” of the government-appointed Cuncliffe Commission, the inquiry will present its findings to MPs today.

Ministers could bring water companies into public ownership for minimal cost through the special administration process, which is built into the 1991 Water Industry Act. It can be triggered if a company cannot pay its debts or is not performing its statutory requirements, which include treating wastewater rather than dumping it into the environment.

Shareholders and creditors such as bondholders would be given “appropriate value” for their stakes, which would, in effect, be nothing.

 

They do divert the flow so they can dig the sediment. So if it was to totally empty that would be my guess

 

Our water butt is lovely and full so it should last us a while hopefully.

 

If they sorted their leaks and had built more resovoirs for the rise in population, it wouldn't be needed.

 

Get ready to go darn wi thi pans. If BarnsleyBlitz has his way.

 

Be in short supply soon.

 

It’s alright following the rules they demand when you’re a regular through the roof water bill payer but at the end of the day they don’t follow the rules or fulfil their requirements as a supplier so why should I fulfil mine as a user?. While the top shareholders over in China pocket millions were expected to not use a hose pipe? Don’t play that card without putting notice on the water companies that take the absolute mick the whole reason this ban is in place is because of mismanagement not because of people using too much water or lack of rainfall.

 

It’s the way they start to lecture us when supplies get low that pisses me off too, blithely ignoring
The incompetence and lack of investment that they have have shown year after year.

They had some idiot on the tv the other week saying extra reservoirs weren’t the answer , now we have three water butts and our neighbor has one, guess who will run out first?​

 

Yet countries like Turkey, with temperatures of 40+ celsius crack on!