Noah
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No doubt due to all the wallies watering their grass.
But if you water the grass you only have to cut it. Let it turn brown & save the effort.
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No doubt due to all the wallies watering their grass.
Yes and that needs to change. You don't eat grass, watering your vegetables is fine.
But if you water the grass you only have to cut it. Let it turn brown & save the effort.
but green grass is so much nicer. I'm with you, brown grass is so much easier to look after
In one of droughts in the 80s or 90s when there was a hosepipe ban, Anglian Water were using an aircraft to spot people with green lawns and then prosecuting them for watering their lawns. One chap had a perfect defence, his lawn was brown but he had developed a green dye to make withered grass look green. He was found not guilty and the sales of his dye soared as the result of the publicity.
No water again tonight
Here we go again!It wasnt me
The flowers will even prefer butt water to tap water, in general.why not have a water butt? the flowers don't care about getting clean or rainwater. Why waste pristine, treated water on flowers?
Hardly surprising.
The day after the water went off and we got the email asking us to be sensible I walked my dog in the morning and evening passing the same house. A lady was out there watering her flowers with a hose pipe on both occasions, why not have a water butt? the flowers don't care about getting clean or rainwater. Why waste pristine, treated water on flowers?
Also saw someone washing their car with a hosepipe, it was a white car so I expect they have to do that a lot.
Have you not considered complaining?The people over the back let their kids play around with a hosepipe squirting it in the air everywhere for fun Keep having to run and get my washing in off the line as they are doing it most days and it's coming over the fence , and the parents sit there watching them!
why not have a water butt?
To be fair it’s not always viable. We’d have to completely regutter to make it work (and I did try to make it work but the butt is now round the side collecting dust) as none of our gutters drain anywhere that would work for a butt to feed off
I don't use one as I don't water any plants. But those that can use one would reduce usage enough.
Of course another issue is when you build a load of new housing estates you'll increase demand?
It can usually be done, somehow - the old blue wheelie bin, seen in the distance behind the lamp that's not on, is fed from the gutter of the shed that the picture is taken from. There's about seventy feet of 15mm plastic water pipe connecting it to two other butts adjacent to the shed and arranged to be at the same level. I would suspect that it's been in operation, without any problems, for about eight years. I did think that the interconnector pipe might block at some point, but we haven't got to that point yet.-nervously glances at the filled 3500 litre pool which may be classified as a valuable asset soon-
I swear, we filled it weeks ago.
To be fair it’s not always viable. We’d have to completely regutter to make it work (and I did try to make it work but the butt is now round the side collecting dust) as none of our gutters drain anywhere that would work for a butt to feed off