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Lancashire 'two weeks' from hosepipe ban (From Lancashire Telegraph)
When I saw this in the LT I thought it was a leg pull:rolleyes:

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We live on an island surrounded by more water than it is possible for you to imagine yet we're being told to conserve it while the directors cream off salaries of in excess of £300k with bonuses for efficiency.

You've got to feel sorry for them really, haven't you?

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Ever since the snow stopped falling, there has been very little rain this year.

The ground is tinder dry.

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agree, but surely it must be down to the crap ways rain is collected by the water companys?:confused: after living where its much hotter n far less rainfall, n never experiencing a water ban, that the only conclusion i can reach.:confused:

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lol just washed teh car and read this

soz to anyone dying of dehydration

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hang on if theres a hospe pipe ban it only seems fair that those companies filling up bottles of water from the tap and selling them as spring water be told to stop production if things are that bad

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Holden Wood Reservoir, Haslingden Grane
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Haslingden Grane - a set on Flickr

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they have propably sent all our water down south like the usualy do when theres a spot of sunshine

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We seem to have plenty of the wet stuff. Maybe if the water companies fixed leaks instead of lining their pockets and wallets there would be no problem. I would start worrying when the Lake district and the money made in bonuses by water company bosses coincide.

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Just when we had rain now this morning im without water again, maybe the reseviors are draining cos UU cannot take care of their pipes, another burst main this morning - yet when i rung to report the automated machine was waffling on about the hosepipe ban and conserving water............UU take your own advice, its not the consumers thats wasting it its you.

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Well I've decided to be more conscientious and save on water, I've put the Stella in the fridge this morning:D

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what will putting your russian internet bride in the fridge acehive ?

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He should also make sure Stella gets no more than four inches in the bathroom.

Supplying her with a ruler should help.

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Still no water in the tap, another problem with a burst main. Uu really peeing me off now, paid my bill and had to go and buy water from asda grr.
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Don't waste it.

You might need it to wash the dishes tonight.

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We need to boil the spuds first, will they turn yellow :confused:

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I'd forget having spuds until the water's back on.

You might be better having a savoury rice.

;)

:D

(Hope they sort it for you soon.)

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That would absorb all the liquid and we wouldn't be able to wash the dishes ;)

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Cool Running:D

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Ha four inches:eek:, she should be so lucky, would take ages to fill as the taps only a drible these days:rolleyes:

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Taps?

You might find she has more joy from one mixer tap.

;)

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You speak for yourself:D

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Water ban in place from friday confirmed. Me im fuming with UU telling us sob stories on it being dry and conserving our usage, certainly as our household has been victim to cuts in supply due to burst water mains 5 times this year so far, so begs the question which Uu wouldn't answer on the news skirting around it, as to how much has uu lost thro its faulty or bad pipe system?? Yet the customers suffer and i sure bet we wont get reduction in our bills either!

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UU, which made a £500m pre-tax profit last year and whose chief executive Philip Green was awarded a £924,000 bonus
Liverpool Daily Post - News - Liverpool News - United Utilities bans hosepipes in Merseyside – despite leaking 460m litres of water every day

Write to him.

He might have enough of his bonus left to send you a crate of bottled water.

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I live (mostly) in a third world country with less rain than the UK and yet we don't have any bans on water.
The internet going down, well that is another story.....

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thats the thing thats always puzzled me, lived in southern spain fer few years n never a water ban,:confused: just convinces me more that our water leaders are incompetent *******.:rolleyes:

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Could not agree more Cashy, I can understand privatization of companies that can have competition, the Electric, Gas and Telephone companies, but why they ever did Water is beyond me. Its not as if you can get piped water from anyone else.

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I agree BG I'm all for free enterprise but water, I thought it at the time and ain't changed my mind since a mistake

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I am not trying to influence anybody in any way here, but, if you have a water metre, then you pay for all use of water, therefore you would expect that they should supply it by any means necessary, how could they charge you for every drip, and then have you fined for using a hose pipe when you would be paying (up front in most cases) for the water used... Is like going to the garage, filling your car, getting a burst tank, and being fined for wasting the petrol? Only in this country!!

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Read in Lancs Telegraph can do when ban comes in can fill swimming pool can fill hot tub hose down dog spray water into concrete mixer its so important to be able to fill your pool and hot tub

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Would their usage not be less though BG ? Showers, dishwashers, washers, hose pipes to wash cars, watering gardens, etc ?

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that could be possible kate?:confused: but they sure dont use less in southern spain, so whats the difference yon?

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well teh supermarkets and shops in teh area are still selling bottled water and that all comes from a tap so the water shortage cant be that bad :rolleyes:

im assuming the hosepipe ban is still in place ?

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Don't know Cashy .. just musing like.

Maybe population... just quick googles tell me that the North West has approx. 7,000,000 people to 14,000 square miles. Southern Spain 8,000,000 to 33,000 square miles.

They drink bottled water and don't have as many brews ? .. :D

It does seem to go off more though.

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The hosepipe ban starts tomorrow, Friday.

Will any single people please list their names here, and I'll try and pair you up for the sharing a bath scheme.

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Draining two rather large reservoirs and building on them can't have helped.

Maybe creating a shortage is the easiest way of hiking up the price.:confused::confused:

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It might help if we didn't sell so much of our water to the south and United Utilities listened to people who phone up complaining about leaks.

There's been one in Rishton off Spring Street for about a year which I know has been reported on several occasions and yet there it is, still flowing daily.

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So long as you pair me with Cheryl Tweedy:D

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Just bought a new snorkel??:D:D

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Run on Oxygen too Beni :D:rolleyes:

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You're Sunday nights with MargaretR.

You are at the tap end.

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Where's Andrewb these days? He could be telling us how it's all due to Labour's reckless water wastage and how you wouldn't have had this if it weren't for 13 years of.......zzzzzzzzzzzzz

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Too busy, being a "Gopher" down London.:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

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Was all due to Labours reckless water wastage, if they'd have taken the correct measures over the last 13 years this would never have happened, that do ya Ken:D:D:D

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I wish you'd pay attention G, MargaretR as now got a wet room no bath:D

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Labour are absolutely committed to saving more water, year on year in real terms.....

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They might be better occupied saving on Hot Air:D

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Have you actually seen it?

Could be deliberately planted, conspired to spread misinformation.

Just a theory.

:rolleyes:

:D

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Fortunately Jaysay and I have access to showers only, and as they are Hyndburn Homes supplied, they will acommodate only one person at a time.

I did once own an extra large shower, and was asked how was 'thingy' in that? - my answer was 'wet';)

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oh no not again :eek:

does one flip a coin to see who gets teh tap end ?

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No just take it as read you've got the taps accyman:D

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Is that fortunately we only have showers or that they only accommodate one Margaret;);):D

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I do not subscribe to -
'I'll scrub your back if you'll scrub mine'
Self sufficiency is my scene - a loofah on a rope is a better solution.

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i'll just go back across the border if i want a bath ... mind you have to do that anyway .. only have a shower ...:D:D:D

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See you've never bothered with politics then Margaret:D