I have very clear letters from 2 different water authorities stating that
its perfectly legal to use a hosepipe from Water Butts or grey water sources
You can even fill your Water Butt from the mains !!!!!

Daft as it sounds you can even put a pump in your swimming Pool or pond or
fountain and attach that to a hose

Since you are not restricted in filling swimming pools , ponds and fountains
............you can fill a pool at one end and pump it out to water your
garden at the other !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can also use your pressure washer to clean your Patio all day every day
at 500gallons an hour just dont use it to wash the car or water the garden
!!

But use mains water and hose to water your veggies 200ft down the garden
..........NOPE .........gotta use a watering can

Only a Drought Order can stop the crazy rules but since that will stop
Automatic Car washes and the watering of Council parks and Golf Courses they
dont want to do that because its peoples livelihoods

Across the South numerous Garden Centres/Nurseries are going out of business
because no one is buying plants they cant water
The loss of livelihoods in those indudtries will dwarf everything else but
they dont count .........garden watering only accounts for 1% of water usage
but the powers that be are too stupid to see that there are numerous other
"non essential " water uses that it would be more sensible to ban instead of
hitting keen gardeners

Since the Water Companies were party to the Water Serviices act 1991 and
ONLY Margaret Becket and the House of Commons can change the terms of it to
level the playing field its down to eveeryone writing to their MPs demanding
a change in the crazy penalisation of gardeners



The Temporary Hosepipe Ban provisions of the Water Industry Act 1991
specify only that the use of a hosepipe connected to the mains supply
can be restricted. It is perfectly legal to connect a hosepipe to any
reservoir such as a water butt -- but you won't get much flow unless
you also use an underwater pump such as this:
http://www.justoffbase.co.uk/s.nl/sc....A/id.16880/.f