It’s poll time! Our first question is:
Would you inform your local water company if you knew a neighbour was ignoring the hosepipe ban?
Are we all in this together and should people be taken to court for ignoring the ban? Perhaps you feel you couldn’t be so mean to ‘dob in’ a neighbour? Or do you simply not care what your neighbours get up to?
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Would you inform on a neighbour ignoring the hosepipe ban?
- No (69%, 4,882 Votes)
- Yes (31%, 2,225 Votes)
Total Voters: 7,107
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Why has this turned into a slagging match on the BLUE Badge Holders/Disabled.
Unless any of you are medically qualified to assess these people you have no right to criticise.And no I don’t have one in case you were thinking that. You are jealous of their badge and the privileges it gives them, but I bet you are not jealous of their disability and I bet your’e the first ones to rush to the front of the Queue because you are fully able. This is typical of our society today ” Knock the already Knocked “. I also bet your the ones who park in the disabled bays at the supermarket Because there are no Parent / Family Bays left. I am a parent and we chose to have our children as you did but Blue Badge holders didn’t chose to have their disability . SO LEAVE THEM ALONE>
Hi there, if you see someone using a hosepipe do you report it?
Entirely up to you. If you wish to do so, you should contact your local water company.
Govenrnment telling everyone to inform on their neighbours, remind you of anyting? turning more like a nazi state by the day, thank god the toon has all the water
Maybe, just maybe……If they repaired 80% of the leaks then there might not be
a hosepipe ban.?!?!?!?
I do not agaree with it whatsoever!
My neighbour has been using a hosepipe to fill her very very large pool for the last 18 hours and it’s still not full! I really do feel I’d love to shop her – within half hour of it being full the kids will be diving and splashing around and it will need re-filling!
And here’s me worried about clearning my patio!
Most of the guidance on the dos and don’ts of the hose pipe ban are quite clear with the exception of this 1 which will probably be the most popular in light of the hot weather facing us in the next week or so:(You can’t) ‘■Filling or maintaining a domestic swimming or paddling pool, except by using a hand held container filled directly from a tap.’
Can you clarify- if a hand held container is used to fill the pool this is an exemption from the ban?
No, you can’t fill/maintain a pool by any method assuming your using mains water.
I would report a neighbour for running a hospipe to run a water slide for her children for hours on end, but there is no facility on the automated answering machine to do this. Fine if you want to pay a bill, or report a leak, but none for breach of hosepipe ban. Why? I am not using my hospipe even though my veg garden is in danger of dying.
Can I fill a paddling pool using a bucket from the taps in the bathroom?
No that’s not allowed.
Well, here we are, almost 2 hours later, and the hosepipe is still running, water flying everywhere, the kids having a great time on the water slide and spraying each other, but where are Thames Water????? Not just the kids – mother is making sure the hose goes back on the slide!
The water companies have this year (more or less) stated they won’t be putting enforcement officers on the street to find ‘culprits’. Instead they are relying on the general public to report them.
Whether or not they do anything once you’ve told them, is another matter.
I think I would inform on blatant breaches of hosepipe bans. I do feel, considering the state of some parts of the world where people only have disease ridden muddy puddles to drink from, that we in the UK are obscene in our waste of water. Filling a swimming pool in the back garden ??? You bet your life I would blow the whistle.
All said, I think we are a nation of self-centred hypocrytes.
Well I hate to say this but I have little sympathy for the Water Utilities, I pay on a meter and ignore the (predictable) ban each year. Happy to pay more if needed. I’m entitled to a service as I pay for it.. Right? If everyone did this it will force the companies to invest in reserve capacity more urgently because it makes the proble worse.
SE Water paid 30% of their profit back to shareholders (£30m) rather than invest in loans from their Aussie and Canadian owning parent companies to increase capacity.
Shopping your friends and the folks you live next to reminds me of Nazi tactics.
Imagine if petrol bans existed such you could only have some for emergency travel! this is 2012 people.
That’s my rant over, sure it will bring out the do gooders. Now must water my hanging baskets before it gets too hot! BTW the Utility serving the next door county has no ban so I might give them my business… Oh wait … I can’t!
Toodle pip
i can not understand why neighbours would want to report each other. it just goes to show how many people wish unhappiness on each other and its sad. Most people who would use a hose pipe would be doing it for there kids benefit in the heat as not every family can afford to entertain there children during the summer. Any sensible person would realise that this is yet another scare tactic from the govermnent that there is a drought just like they got everyone panicing about petrol.Its all political thats why they will lift the hose pipe ban when the olympics begin to pretend we are a rich country. I say love thy neighbour! Whats the point in upsetting your neighbours when realistically it hasnt stopped raining!!