On January 18, most of the water companies in the south east will
announce that they are lifting their hosepipe bans. Thames Water,
Southern Water, Three Valleys and Sutton & East Surrey Water will all
lift their hosepipe restrictions in response to the above average
winter rainfall. They join Folkestone & Dover water company which
lifted its ban on October 2.

Gardeners should therefore enjoy a trouble-free watering season since
it must be considered unlikely that the water companies will do an
about-turn once the weather warms up.

How convenient, the hosepipe ban is lifted just as all my water butts are groaningly full and the ground is sodden......

"Stan The Man" wrote
On January 18, most of the water companies in the south east will
announce that they are lifting their hosepipe bans. Thames Water,
Southern Water, Three Valleys and Sutton & East Surrey Water will all
lift their hosepipe restrictions in response to the above average
winter rainfall. They join Folkestone & Dover water company which
lifted its ban on October 2.

Gardeners should therefore enjoy a trouble-free watering season since
it must be considered unlikely that the water companies will do an
about-turn once the weather warms up.

They would have a job explaining the continuance of a ban considering the
height and speed of flow of the water in the Thames at the moment.
Not going to take much more rain for it to flood big time around here,
friend nearer the river says it's already 8 inches deep in his basement.

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Bob H
17mls W. of London.UK

"Stan The Man" wrote in message
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On January 18, most of the water companies in the south east will
announce that they are lifting their hosepipe bans. Thames Water,
Southern Water, Three Valleys and Sutton & East Surrey Water will all
lift their hosepipe restrictions in response to the above average
winter rainfall. They join Folkestone & Dover water company which
lifted its ban on October 2.

Gardeners should therefore enjoy a trouble-free watering season since
it must be considered unlikely that the water companies will do an
about-turn once the weather warms up.

Dont you believe it, I heard a forecast of long dry summer after wet spring,
it will only take 2 or 3 weeks of dry weather to start the bans again, now
here in west midlands I beleive its been 30 years since we had a hosepipe
ban.
Thanks goodness for Welsh hills and the river severn.

regards
Cineman

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"Stan The Man" wrote in message
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On January 18, most of the water companies in the south east will
announce that they are lifting their hosepipe bans. Thames Water,
Southern Water, Three Valleys and Sutton & East Surrey Water will all
lift their hosepipe restrictions in response to the above average
winter rainfall. They join Folkestone & Dover water company which
lifted its ban on October 2.

Gardeners should therefore enjoy a trouble-free watering season since
it must be considered unlikely that the water companies will do an
about-turn once the weather warms up.

Dont you believe it, I heard a forecast of long dry summer after wet spring,
it will only take 2 or 3 weeks of dry weather to start the bans again

No, they are hoist with their own petard. As they explained to us
repeatedly over the past year, it is not the spring and summer weather
that causes water shortages but the lack of rain in the winter months
at a time when it would be recharging the aquifers without much
evaporation or take-up by growing trees and other plants. They can
hardly change their tune now.

Stan The Man wrote:
On January 18, most of the water companies in the south east will
announce that they are lifting their hosepipe bans. Thames Water,
Southern Water, Three Valleys and Sutton & East Surrey Water will all
lift their hosepipe restrictions in response to the above average
winter rainfall. They join Folkestone & Dover water company which
lifted its ban on October 2.

Gardeners should therefore enjoy a trouble-free watering season since
it must be considered unlikely that the water companies will do an
about-turn once the weather warms up.


Shouldn't we all be considering 'rainwater harvesting' these days?
ie. collecting water for free off a house/shed/greenhouse roof.

Antony

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antony@nospamthanks wrote:

Stan The Man wrote:
On January 18, most of the water companies in the south east will
announce that they are lifting their hosepipe bans. Thames Water,
Southern Water, Three Valleys and Sutton & East Surrey Water will all
lift their hosepipe restrictions in response to the above average
winter rainfall. They join Folkestone & Dover water company which
lifted its ban on October 2.

Gardeners should therefore enjoy a trouble-free watering season since
it must be considered unlikely that the water companies will do an
about-turn once the weather warms up.


Shouldn't we all be considering 'rainwater harvesting' these days?
ie. collecting water for free off a house/shed/greenhouse roof.

Do you include the water companies? You do know that they don't channel
this almost-clean water back to their reservoir? If they have been
happy for years to allow it to flow out to sea, it doesn't exactly set
a good example.

And so-called greywater recycling systems are potentially dangerous of
course. I believe they have been outlawed in Sweden.

Bob Hobden wrote:
"Stan The Man" wrote

On January 18, most of the water companies in the south east will
announce that they are lifting their hosepipe bans. Thames Water,
Southern Water, Three Valleys and Sutton & East Surrey Water will all
lift their hosepipe restrictions in response to the above average
winter rainfall. They join Folkestone & Dover water company which
lifted its ban on October 2.

Gardeners should therefore enjoy a trouble-free watering season since
it must be considered unlikely that the water companies will do an
about-turn once the weather warms up.


They would have a job explaining the continuance of a ban considering the
height and speed of flow of the water in the Thames at the moment.
Not going to take much more rain for it to flood big time around here,
friend nearer the river says it's already 8 inches deep in his basement.

Actually, In that area water is taken largely from underground aquifers,
not rivers. For that to fill up water has to seep through ground and
rocks so the height/flow of rivers is, unfortunately, not entirely relevant.
The problems are getting worse because more building/tarmac means less
rain soaking in, and more running off into rivers. At the same time more
dwellings use more water used.

Brick.

"Brick" wrote in message
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Actually, In that area water is taken largely from underground aquifers,
not rivers. For that to fill up water has to seep through ground and rocks
so the height/flow of rivers is, unfortunately, not entirely relevant.
The problems are getting worse because more building/tarmac means less
rain soaking in, and more running off into rivers. At the same time more
dwellings use more water used.

Brick.

It is on these grounds that I have opposed planning applications and won the
cases. One only has to put a 'sting in the tail' of the opposition letter,
such as a warning of future flooding affecting certain houses and that 'if
planning permission is granted, then this letter can be used as a warning
and claims made against the Planning Authority if said houses are flooded'
and copied to the houses which will be in the flooding line. This has worked
on three occasions for our surrounding area.

Mike


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"Brick" wrote...
Bob Hobden wrote:
"Stan The Man" wrote

On January 18, most of the water companies in the south east will
announce that they are lifting their hosepipe bans. Thames Water,
Southern Water, Three Valleys and Sutton & East Surrey Water will all
lift their hosepipe restrictions in response to the above average
winter rainfall. They join Folkestone & Dover water company which
lifted its ban on October 2.

Gardeners should therefore enjoy a trouble-free watering season since
it must be considered unlikely that the water companies will do an
about-turn once the weather warms up.


They would have a job explaining the continuance of a ban considering the
height and speed of flow of the water in the Thames at the moment.
Not going to take much more rain for it to flood big time around here,
friend nearer the river says it's already 8 inches deep in his basement.

Actually, In that area water is taken largely from underground aquifers,
not rivers. For that to fill up water has to seep through ground and rocks
so the height/flow of rivers is, unfortunately, not entirely relevant.
The problems are getting worse because more building/tarmac means less
rain soaking in, and more running off into rivers. At the same time more
dwellings use more water used.


They always did pump it out of the Thames especially in the winter when the
river was in spate, could it be that because it's expensive to run the pumps
and it then requires a lot of expensive filtering it's cheaper to use the
clean rock/gravel filtered underground water and shout "draught" when it
gets low.
Or am I just being cynical about privatised water companies.

Relatives in Adelaide tell me that since their water went private their
reservoirs are never more than half full whereas before they were always
full going into summer. Local consensus is that the Co. won't pay to pump.
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Bob H
17mls W. of London.UK