[roo]

In the Daily Mail

The Goverment watchdog wants a hosepipe ban across southern England within weeks.
It also wants a ban on window cleaning and watering public parks]

where does it say this?

[The Fox]

Page 25 Daily Mail

[Reuben_Reynolds]

You may need one of these zero reject ro systems, the new system will be launched at windex stand w3

[Rob_Mac]

Spoke to a person today about having my new trading address fitted with water supply and meter.

The ball is rolling and should be done by end of month.

Severn Trent Water Authority have no pending hose pipe bans and do not see that there will be any imposed.

You southern lot keep away

Rob

[H h20]

Spoke to a person today about having my new trading address fitted with water supply and meter.

The ball is rolling and should be done by end of month.

Severn Trent Water Authority have no pending hose pipe bans and do not see that there will be any imposed.

You southern lot keep away

Rob

Great stuff Rob,that`s good for me,Gaz 

[Rob_Mac]

Eyup Gaz

Branching out I see - free brush for that bit of advice - please

Rob

[H h20]

Eyup Gaz

Branching out I see - free brush for that bit of advice - please

Rob

I`ll keep a spare in the van,next time you see me it`s yours,Gaz 

[roo]

this is what i want to hear-business as usual!
i can just c it on peoples faces in the summer,especially those who love a green green garden.hey, could even sell some water 2 em.ha

[Morph]

pj, did he say what the cost was cause we have natural springs in our garden. macc

I'll try and find out more.  May take me a while, I only see the customer 8 weeks usually.  I'll phone him.
Remind me if it slips from view.

You may need one of these zero reject ro systems, the new system will be launched at windex stand w3

I, like many am envious.   But......
If there's a ban, it won't really make a jot of difference how good your conversion rate is, with respect.

If I drove into a petrol station during a petrol ban, and said, "but my car does 150 miles to the gallon!"   SO WHAT!  NO PETROL! NO CONCESSIONS!

On the other hand, it could be raining all summer

[Ian_Giles]

The lack of water is a genuine concern, if it gets down to standpipes in the street and it isn't even summer then we have a problem.
When it gets to that stage I would very much imagine that in those areas window cleaners will be affected.
Lets face it, standpipes in the street is pretty serious, and if we are in that position, say, by May (for the sake of arguement) then it is unlikely to change throughout the entire summer, it probably wouldn't be until well into Autumn or early winter, providing the rains come of course, that restrictions would be lifted.

That idiot Prescott still intends to build thousands of houses in the worst affected part of the land too. What a moron.

The water companies lose vast amounts of our water through leaks, I guess they are genuinely trying to fix this problem, but there has to be many thousands of miles of pipe work that really needs to be replaced with modern day materials. Repairing and fixing leaks just isn't enough, the pipework in place is ancient.

I was reading in one of the papers...forgotten which one now, I think it may have been the times (no, I am not posh enough to buy The Times, but now it's smaller I enjoy reading it ) and the article in there was about the problems with water and the way in which we save the wet stuff up in reservoirs and so on.
Reservoirs themselves are not all they are cracked up to be by all accounts, silting up is a major problem, as is evaporation.
Shunting water for irrigation and other uses from free flowing rivers and tributaries has major effects on the ecology, water tables drop lower and lower.

The article gave many examples of slightly lateral thinking that gave a totally different slant on how we save water, I wish I had the article to hand and I would have cribbed off it!

Governments and water authorities need to open their collective eyes and start doing things about water, it isn't just about fixing leaks or building reservoirs, believe it or not those are just short term fixes, it has to be looked at in context with the ecology.

I must see if I can find that blasted article Was very thought provoking.....

Ian

[twt]

haha southen faires looks like its back to the ladders for you. only kidding i understand the problem but i think this would be a justifiable reason for using ladders as a water ban would remove a safe and practicle alternative to ladders. also i think there will be alot more water shortage problems in the future i once heard someone state that he thought wars in the not too distant future would be fought not over oil but water.
      I use wfp but it has always concerned me how much water it uses, i think any future inovations in wfp will be on reducing water consumption both though reverse osmosis and cleaning technique where the varistream and autobrush have already helped. Ive thought about having a much higher presure but a lower flow. also a thought might be to have a mixture of compressed air and water forced out of the brush might not work but surely worth thinking about.
I'll stop talking drivel now.

[Sarah Sarill]

On a serious  note guys,

Wales has the higest levels of water at 97% of its usual stock for this time of the year.

As a sideline I am willing to start another business PUREWATER 4 U and will sell you water at, shall we say £250 per 1000 lktr tank or....


You could get your ladders out instead - LOL

Only kidding , it could be a serious situation for you guys but I just thought that if you have to resort to using ladders again how would that affect your PL if you have declared the non-use of ladders ?

Just something to think about especially if you have purchased it through Davis Bishops Fed scheme.  Maybe worth you making some enquiries about eh 

Sarah

[AuRavelling79]

Ok - cost of water on a meter - my ol' mum is on a meter and with vat she is charged £0.87 plus vat per cubic metre (1000 litres) (£1.05 if it's 17.5% or is it less on utilities?)

So for a conservative daily usage of 333 litres from an RO (667 going to drain/waste) that's about a quid. I can afford that!

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Now - let me tell you about the Snowy Mountains scheme in Sth Australia.

Between 1950 and 1980 they had the foresight to plan for increased water usage in Oz's developed South-East and diverted a whole mountain range of water so that it could be used as needed. They built 100 miles of tunnels theough rock - 80 miles of aquaducts - 17 large dams and a few smaller ones so that reservoirs could be used at different points.

They can divert water from one side of the range to another using the tunnels connecting the  Snowy/Murray river system. A by product is that they were able to produce 4 million kilo-watts of electricity by hydro electric power (supplying a population the size of a city of Birmingham) too.

Some things need to be done on a national scale - and the wetter west can supply the drier east if this kind of plan was done here in Britain.

Grief! London could even pay the Welsh, Scots and Cornish for their water and keep the Celts happy!

Then their is de-salination like what they use on Tenerife to keep a million tourists and ex-pats happy! Don't get me started!

[martyn]

With regard to the proposed restrictions on wtaer use, and in particular the mention of building and window cleaning.

The Association of Professional Window Cleaners have already openned dialogue with the Chief Executive of the Agency to try and ensure that this does not affect then industry.

A press release has been issued through teh PA to alert the media to the contradictions of the situatoin.

Watch this space?

[Paul Coleman]

On a serious  note guys,

Wales has the higest levels of water at 97% of its usual stock for this time of the year.

As a sideline I am willing to start another business PUREWATER 4 U and will sell you water at, shall we say £250 per 1000 lktr tank or....


You could get your ladders out instead - LOL

Only kidding , it could be a serious situation for you guys but I just thought that if you have to resort to using ladders again how would that affect your PL if you have declared the non-use of ladders ?

Just something to think about especially if you have purchased it through Davis Bishops Fed scheme.  Maybe worth you making some enquiries about eh 

Sarah

Joking apart Sarah, if it came to it I would be prepared to drive to an area where the water situation was Ok and fill up my van mount to use for trad cleaning. Due to the distances, obviously it would be impractical to use WFP in such a situation.  A tankful could last weeks if used for trad..  On the other hand, I could always say that I'd got the water from a more plentiful area if asked by some official.

[macc]

cheers PJ, will do.

[gaza]

WERE ALRIGHT UP HERE NORTH OF WATFORD GAP,POOR LITTLE SOUTHERNERS

 GAZA

[macc]

 

[mark f]

Not slating wfp at all but ive always thought it a joke to use the arguement in advertising that wfp is more enviromentally friendly. I think that spraying and wasting hundreds of litres of the most precious substance known to man for his survival is far more detrimental to the enviroment than a squirt of fairy in a bucket!

  I know if i felt i couldnt use wfp cos of a water shortage then ladders would be used. 1 bucket of water a day makes far more sense.

[Jeff Brimble]

You only need to use enough. Today I used about 30 litres( 3 buckets ? )
I use pencil micro jets and 1/3rd to 1/2 litre per min. on/off between windows, tops only. Clear consience ?  Maybe,  if I could only work out what to do with the waste water. Suppose we could all but the new Ionics zero gizzmo.