How long before a hosepipe ban?

[SpokeyDokey]

What rain... it only sprinkled the garden a little.

It's not stopped raining for more than a few hours since Friday.

The river 80m from our house is running really high whereas last week it was a trickle. We had kayakers on it yesterday. Fortunately it is also around 25metres down a rocky hillside below us.

 

[Brandane]

I've been out panic buying, just in case they DO bring in a ban on hosepipes. Best to be prepared:

 

[fossyant]

It's not stopped raining for more than a few hours since Friday.

The river 80m from our house is running really high whereas last week it was a trickle. We had kayakers on it yesterday. Fortunately it is also around 25metres down a rocky hillside below us.

Cracking the flags in Manchester land. Has been more or less all week. I tell the truth, Manchester is not rainy.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Four years on, the er, threat is back. Not round here I hope, as it's been on and off for days!

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brits-hit-first-hosepipe-ban-27547210

 

[biggs682]

It can't be long surely not had real rain for ages

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I haven't followed the clickbait link, but what is wrong with journalism these days, why are they reverting to the lowest common denominator. Instead of the shock/horror/probe we're all going to die through lack of this/that/other, why not do a proper job & investigate average rainfall, what we each can do to help.

Saw one the other day saying that the 2 (yes 2) hot days last week nearly crippled the power grid, they took the positive that the grid had enough resilience to maintain power through unprecedented daily consumption & turned into a horror story of there may have been power cuts. What is wrong with these people, they are supposed to be educated.

 

[Milzy]

How do they police that? The population has been exploding over the last few years & they haven’t built any reservoirs around here since 1990. They should fix leaks.

 

[MontyVeda]

I haven't followed the clickbait link, but what is wrong with journalism these days, why are they reverting to the lowest common denominator. Instead of the shock/horror/probe we're all going to die through lack of this/that/other, why not do a proper job & investigate average rainfall, what we each can do to help.

Saw one the other day saying that the 2 (yes 2) hot days last week nearly crippled the power grid, they took the positive that the grid had enough resilience to maintain power through unprecedented daily consumption & turned into a horror story of there may have been power cuts. What is wrong with these people, they are supposed to be educated.

frightened people are more likely to buy a newspaper than calm people

 

[Ming the Merciless]

About 4 years

 

[I like Skol]

Was out in wild (and very wet) mid-Wales this weekend. Happened to go around the edge of Nant-Y-Moch reservoir.

 

[tyred]

I haven't got a hose pipe.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I haven't followed the clickbait link, but what is wrong with journalism these days, why are they reverting to the lowest common denominator. Instead of the shock/horror/probe we're all going to die through lack of this/that/other, why not do a proper job & investigate average rainfall, what we each can do to help.

Saw one the other day saying that the 2 (yes 2) hot days last week nearly crippled the power grid, they took the positive that the grid had enough resilience to maintain power through unprecedented daily consumption & turned into a horror story of there may have been power cuts. What is wrong with these people, they are supposed to be educated.

Drives me, and many others, crazy this constant negative doom-mongering.

Sadly, some people seem to get sucked into it. One of our friend's daughter gets into a real state with headlines such as wildfires breaking out across the country.

Not related to your post but we (SE Lakes) have had a fair (normal) amount of rain since the end of the (very short) period of hot weather; plus we had one afternoon and evening where the rain was torrential. Local rivers look normal as of today.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Four years on, the er, threat is back. Not round here I hope, as it's been on and off for days!

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brits-hit-first-hosepipe-ban-27547210

Despite all the rain up here we sometimes get a ban when Manchester suffers, as they consume a fair amount of Cumbria water - 4 huge feed pipes are exposed as they cross over a river a few hundred metres from our house.

 

[lazybloke]

Annoying that hosepipe bans also apply to watering of FOOD at allotments.

 

[ColinJ]

How do they police that? The population has been exploding over the last few years & they haven’t built any reservoirs around here since 1990. They should fix leaks.

I noticed water bubbling up through the surface of a local road about a week ago. I cycled that way again today and it is still happening so I went on the Yorkshire Water website to report it. They were already aware of it and are apparently "investigating" it and several other leaks along the same road. They dug that road up about a year ago to repair the water main. It seems like they are just bodging repairs on something which should be replaced!

The water levels at several reservoirs round here were very low last week and I doubt that the heavy rain over the past couple of days will have made much difference. If it is dry this evening I might go out again and take a photo or two.