They just try and draw a line to limit water use. It has to be arbitary at some point (as with covid lock down restrictions). If people stop filling paddling pools and washing their cars and cut down on baths, then it might be enough to get us through August.
or if EVERYONE had a meter. I used to have a meter in my last house, but next door didn't. There were 3 generations living there: 5 adults one toddler. They had 3 cars which were washed every Sunday and 2 jet skis which they took the Hayling Island and they were hosed down after every use. the hose pipe was just left running on the pavement during all this.
Until people in the "Western" world have to walk for miles just to fill a bucket with some muddy water to actually drink, we will continue to waste this precious resource. Not exactly a promising scenario for the future.
You’re wasting your time there Philippa, out of sight, out of mind, maybe when the stand pipes are back on the corners of the streets people may be more interested. But then, think of the amount of water industries use, just to make rubbish for us to buy. You'd think there was an infinite supply of the stuff, this water is all we’ll get.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Well yes, I was thinking in the gardening context, given the rash of gardening advice to use a watering can to save water of late.
My car and terrace gets washed once a year if they’re lucky, windows with a bucket and damp cloth and about the same frequency, I never water the grass or drive. The pool gets topped up occasionally in summer but doesn’t actually use that much. We take short showers, never baths.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I use the trigger attachment thingy on the end of the hose, so it’s never left running out of my control. I’m not supposed to be lifting anything as heavy as even a half full watering can, and I’m very selective about what deserves watering. Not evil in the right hands! Maybe we need to be issued licences, having proved we are behaving sensibly!
I can’t even use one in the first place. We need a pump to get the water to the sink. It doesn’t give enough pressure to run a hose. We have to collect rain in as many containers as we can find. Only one year did we resort to collecting the bath water.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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I used to have a meter in my last house, but next door didn't.
There were 3 generations living there: 5 adults one toddler.
They had 3 cars which were washed every Sunday and 2 jet skis which they took the Hayling Island and they were hosed down after every use.
the hose pipe was just left running on the pavement during all this.
But then, think of the amount of water industries use, just to make rubbish for us to buy.
You'd think there was an infinite supply of the stuff, this water is all we’ll get.
My car and terrace gets washed once a year if they’re lucky, windows with a bucket and damp cloth and about the same frequency, I never water the grass or drive. The pool gets topped up occasionally in summer but doesn’t actually use that much. We take short showers, never baths.
We have to collect rain in as many containers as we can find. Only one year did we resort to collecting the bath water.
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