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Hosepipe Ban - Was Undecided Now Decided (11th Jul 2025  16:37:19) And there we have it folks! To be very best of my knowledge, last year was a complete wash out. Now that we've had some nice weather - incoming hosepipe ban! Get everything hydrated and cleaned ASAP, as it's enforced from 18 July onwards. Now - get back to work and pay your taxes!

Re: Hosepipe Ban - Sarah (11th Jul 2025  16:42:37) There is a hosepipe ban because it is very hot and everyone is using more water than normal. Why are you so upset about a ban? We will still have drinking water, washing and showering water. It’s just asking us to be more thoughtful with use so there is enough to go around and so the systems can keep up with extraordinary demand. In what way will you be inconvenienced for the few weeks we will have a hosepipe ban?

Re: Hosepipe Ban - Was Undecided Now Decided (11th Jul 2025  17:05:47) Sarah, it's the bit where water companies have acted like vultures extracting all financial value from the companies while polluting our waterways and failing to modernise - all while increasing our prices - that bothers me. Hope that clarifies.

Re: Hosepipe Ban - M (11th Jul 2025  17:06:26) Sarah Have you considered all those homeowners who have £ 000ks worth of plants,trees, shrubs etc. Its not acceptable to say we should all not water them and not continue to do so. We pay for what we use and its a conscious choice. To replace all these would be more than the fine. I for one will not use my dishwasher,bath at all, and reduce my washing machine use, but to let my plants etc die, unfortunately no! I will continue to water regularly. Deal with it,we can as adults all be responsible and make informed decisions as I've laid out above. But stop dictating terms because you don't have the right to do so, your posts are now dull.

Re: Hosepipe Ban - C (11th Jul 2025  17:48:54) Has a hosepipe ban been announced for our area? It looks like Kent and part of Sussex in addition to Yorkshire.

Re: Hosepipe Ban - Steve (11th Jul 2025  18:05:49) Hmm. And if everyone else does the same and we end up with standpipes in the streets, that's OK with you?

Re: Hosepipe Ban - Was Undecided Now Decided (11th Jul 2025  18:20:49) I do agree with you M. But under our Glorious Leader it would be the likes of you and I who would be 'made examples of' and would "swiftly feel the full force of the law' under our Two Tier System. Anyway, time spent with our hoses is not productive, instead we should be working harder to generate more tax revenue :)

Re: Hosepipe Ban - Steve (11th Jul 2025  19:03:46) news.sky.com/story/could-we-be-heading-for-a-drought-so-bad-we-have-to-queue-for-water-on-the-street-13395371 Perhaps worth a read for the skeptics

Re: Hosepipe Ban - Sarah (11th Jul 2025  20:36:49) Our local water company doesn’t pollute rivers and streams, it is a drinking water only company that has nothing to do with sewage treatment or disposal. They use reservoirs and boreholes to collect and extract water, that’s all. Of course I feel for everyone with plants and shrubs, but if we run out of drinking and bathing water because of someone further up the network who can afford to pour all the water on their garden, that’s not terribly helpful to anyone it is. Sorry if that is ‘dull’ to say. The point is, we have the same amount of water as in winter, since much of the water in our area comes from boreholes. They are not running out, but supply simply can’t keep up with demand in hot weather, because some people use use use without thinking or caring.

Re: Hosepipe Ban - Susie (11th Jul 2025  22:14:03) Why do you think so many people have got involved with their gardens ? Any chance you think that they were advised by healthcare professionals and g.ps to get into gardening to benefit their health and stay out of the nhs system. Thanks to that many people have got involved to improve their mental and physical health and are now passionately into caring for their gardens growing vegetables etc. Do you think realistically that they will just stop because people like you don't approve? I don't think so and whilst people like you continue to castigate it doesn't help anyone. Gardens provide alot more than flowers and don't include lakes,ponds, swimming pools,dog showers,kids paddling pools etc.,but do provide calm, sanctuary and support well being. Sarah you're not with the programme.

Re: Hosepipe Ban - AF (11th Jul 2025  23:19:43) It won't help now but get a water butt to collect rainwater from your roof for free, this will be for the plants.

Re: Hosepipe Ban - Joe (12th Jul 2025  07:22:28) In my opinion they should stop watering golf courses when there is a hosepipe ban. I understand that is another pursuit that the NHS advises. Obesity is what the NHS are trying to prevent so it does not matter to them what exercise you take. After all if you lived in a flat a G P could not advise you to get gardening.

Re: Hosepipe Ban - Charlie (12th Jul 2025  10:23:44) AF I have 4 water butts and they are nearly all out of water. Joe I agree, stop watering golf courses or at least cut the watering down. I agree with M and Susie. Although I have a dishwasher I rarely use it. I also keep washing to a minimum, but I will not stop watering my garden and vegetables. My garden is my sanctuary and I love my plants. I try to keep watering to a minimum of course, just enough to help the plants over this very dry, hot weather.

Re: Hosepipe Ban - M (12th Jul 2025  10:48:30) AF I have 8 water butts and use them regularly however they aren't an endless suppy in dry weather. My garden includes fruit and vegetables and will not suffer because of the minority on here who likely have kids and indulge them,those that continue without any water saving devices are armchair critics and keyboard warriors and Sarah springs to mind here. Is Sarah the "milk lady" who is posting just with the intent of winding people up,I wonder, under a different guise.

Re: Hosepipe Ban - Susie (12th Jul 2025  11:19:10) Joe Your comments lack insight "Gardening offers significant benefits for mental health, acting as a form of exercise, a mindful activity, and a connection to nature. It can reduce stress, anxiety, and symptoms of depression, while also improving life satisfaction and mood. " If you present with the symptoms above you will be asked if you can get involved in gardening, even if you live in a flat,yes everyone can get involved because it is low cost Just look at LIB always asking for volunteers. As for golf courses they are financially unavailable for the many. Being so dismissive in your post is unhelpful for people trying to get on with their life without being a burden on the state.

Re: Hosepipe Ban - Observed (12th Jul 2025  12:25:56) If they fixed all the water leaks and invested in loads more reservoirs this country would have more than enough water. And start looking into desalination like other countries do that don’t have enough water. Stop paying out to the shareholders and invest.

Re: Hosepipe Ban - Sarah (12th Jul 2025  13:00:27) I post on her maybe once or twice a year when there is something I feel strongly about and water use happens to be one of them. Particularly when people moan about leaks, moan about it running out, but refuse to play their part in a heatwave when water supply can’t keep up with enormous demand. So no, I don’t have an alter-ego on here and I’m perplexed by people who don’t see we all have to be a bit more careful with water. I haven’t at any point said people shouldn’t garden, or enjoy their gardens or benefit from the mental health gardens supply, so I’m not quite sure why those words are being put into my mouth. You are still free to water your gardens from a water butt or from waste water or a watering can. I’m not sure at what point I have been tarnished with the anti mental-health brush. I am just trying to say everyone needs to help out to make sure we all have water for essential use. I don’t have a paddling pool, a pool or a hot tub, just FYI for those accusing me of allsorts, Just be sensible people, a hosepipe ban luckily doesn’t last forever, and I don’t understand people who don’t get it!

Re: Hosepipe Ban - Joe (12th Jul 2025  13:24:24) I agree gardening offers good exercise and help with mental health but so do many other forms of exercise which do not include flouting the hosepipe ban when we have one. That is the point of the posting? The HOSEPIPE BAN not a gardening ban! Just think how much more exercise you will have walking backwards and forwards with your watering can Suze. You can still do gardening! That has not been banned? Your mental health will not suffer trust me. Those that flout a hosepipe ban ( regardless of the devastating consequences to the NHS ! ) are being selfish and anti social and using the excuse that they will suffer mentally by not using their hosepipes? Really? I wondered how long it would be before the personal comments about me from Suze would start. Did not have long to wait!

Re: Hosepipe Ban - Sarah (12th Jul 2025  16:47:57) Observer - I think the country has looked into desalination plants already, but the cost of power to run them would mean your water bill would have to go up enormously. Locally, most of our water comes from boreholes which you don’t see and don’t take up the room of reservoirs, so while your argument might be try elsewhere in then country it isn’t where we are. There are plenty of boreholes supplying us, but they just can’t keep up with crazy summer demand all the time.

Re: Hosepipe Ban - Steve (12th Jul 2025  19:42:52) Sarah is quite correct about the impact on our water bills if desalination becomes required to maintain reliable potable water supplies. It is worth adding that although our local supply depends on boreholes to a large extent rather than surface storage in reservoirs, prolonged high demand at the levels seen this year will undoubtedly impact on the amount of recoverable water in the aquifers and at some point the Environment Agency will be forced to impose limits on the volumes that South East Water can extract. In those circumstances we are headed inevitably towards standpipes in the streets.

Re: Hosepipe Ban - Jen (12th Jul 2025  20:00:39) I feel I should point out, along with C, that there is currently NOT a hosepipe ban in Liphook or any of the surrounding areas.

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