[poleman]

HATE to be doom and gloom merchant but if the prediction for this summer is to be believed 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-3EFmjIuLQ

[paul rulton]

belive it when it happens : lets hope so tho

[Window Washers]

I will have 8000L of water stored and not made via a hose pipe so will use stored water 

[scottt24]

tropical

[daz1977]

i take if there is a hosepipe ban we can use any stored water we have, or will they try and ban that as well

[Mike_G]

If there is a ban then you might not want to use any stored water for cleaning windows you might get lynched. Let assume the worst and water is rationed, not enough to have a bath or shower, bottled water for your kettle and obviously none for the gardens etc and then the window cleaner turns up and chucks out 50 litres or so to clean the windows...I dont think that would go down to well....regardless of whether the water is stored or not, besides if you did have a large amount stored and if there was a serious shortage it would be worth more money to someone than the price of cleaning a 3 bed semi!

[paul rulton]

good point Mike_G 

[TC1]

No problem if you have a bore hole though!

[Alan McTernan]

What a load of bolloxs!!!!! They said that last year and look what happened, seeing as we have had the worst winter for 30 years where has all the water gone? Last time this was threatened alot of my customers just told me to carry on as i still had to make a living, and they where annoyed with the water companies, and i do PW so use about 800 litres an hour!!!!!

[martinsadie]

wont be a problem here in 1976 they put the stand pipes up but we never used them

[Ambient Services]

WFP will be banned at some point regardless of storage, etc - its a total waste of a resource, to think otherwise is very blinkered

[michael papworth]

Another good reason for harvesting rainwater.

[Sapphire Window Cleaning]

There was a white paper a couple of years ago about this, there's conflict between DEFRA and H&S.

I understand that it will not affect WFP as we alter the state of the water before we use it.
If we just fill our tanks with tap water then that is a different story.



Matt

[stfc]

oh im scared,ban or not im still going to use it really dont giva to hoots,get the water police on me  :

[Window Washers]

Another good reason for harvesting rainwater.

This can be classed as theft, as the rain does not belong to you   you dont really think the water boards will let you do that nor the goverment without taxing you somewhere :

[cleewindows]

no windows will get washed then as they will be banning use of ladders soon too,looks like there will be some dirty windows because the ladder monkeys will only be allowed to do bungalows!

[gary999]

oh the doom and gloom :

im sure there are people who just like googling
for misery

[james44]

no windows will get washed then as they will be banning use of ladders soon too

Rubbish!

[ian1972]

Scare mongering again we live in the wettest dreariest country on the planet how the frig can we have shortages of water have you seen it outside its bouncing down.and no they can't touch you if you harvest water so balls to that 1 to.

[Sapphire Window Cleaning]

Scare mongering again we live in the wettest dreariest country on the planet how the frig can we have shortages of water have you seen it outside its bouncing down.and no they can't touch you if you harvest water so balls to that 1 to.

I am afraid they can, any water collected in gullies and gutters becomes the property of the waterboard. FACT!
Whether they will enforce charges to the use of rain water collected from guttering and gullies we will see.

Matt