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"Area's with a hosepipe ban you could face £1000 fine. Unless you receive benefits and you are exempt from the ban and the fine ! I'm sure there's more to this story but ffs. " I’m not sure but if your on disability benefit your exempt . Other benefits I’m unsure . | |||
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"Area's with a hosepipe ban you could face £1000 fine. Unless you receive benefits and you are exempt from the ban and the fine ! I'm sure there's more to this story but ffs. I’m not sure but if your on disability benefit your exempt . Other benefits I’m unsure . " Well that's understandable that if you have a disability . I. Always confused when it comes to these hosepipe bans. How do football clubs and cricket clubs get around it they must use VAST amounts of water? | |||
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"Area's with a hosepipe ban you could face £1000 fine. Unless you receive benefits and you are exempt from the ban and the fine ! I'm sure there's more to this story but ffs. " Could you not have just checked before getting worked up about it..? | |||
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 , I will carry on watering my garden/plants regardless of a ban | |||
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"Haven't built a new reservoir since 1992, with one due for completion 2029-2031, Over 10 million more people since then , I will carry on watering my garden/plants regardless of a ban "Use your bath water and start pissing on your dahlias. | |||
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"Those fucking disabled people getting all the breaks "Salad dodgers with blue badge | |||
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"Those fucking disabled people getting all the breaks
Salad dodgers with blue badge "I quite like a salad. | |||
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"Those fucking disabled people getting all the breaks "MILLIONS MUST GO !!! | |||
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"The media need their click-bait. It's been in place since 2000, but only now do the media kick up a fuss. It's also a bit more than having to be on benefits. There are 3 criteria for being on a WaterSure tariff: You have a water meter (or equivalent) You are on certain means-tested benefits AND You have a high essential use for water due to: Certain medical conditions that require higher-than-normal water use 3+ 19yo children in ft education Which all sounds pretty reasonable to me." I don’t know OPs original story but my understanding is that he was talking about a hose pipe ban for watering your garden. How does any of the above relate to watering your garden? I struggle to think of any scenario where a disability requires your to water your garden from a hose. Is it just a legal loophole where a specific tariff happens to give you the right to use water for any purpose irrespective of any wider public restrictions? If so then it seems like a poorly worded tariff contract and I don’t think it would be unreasonable to impose a garden related restriction for anyone on it. Happy to change that view if someone can give me a valid reason why a disability means your garden needs to be watered in a drought. | |||
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"I struggle to think of any scenario where a disability requires your to water your garden from a hose. Is it just a legal loophole where a specific tariff happens to give you the right to use water for any purpose irrespective of any wider public restrictions?" It's just that some people have a protected tariff that is capped at a certain level. If those people choose to water their garden, they won't pay any extra once they've reached the cap. It's just click-baity journalism. | |||
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"Happy to change that view if someone can give me a valid reason why a disability means your garden needs to be watered in a drought." a hosepipe ban isn't a ban on watering your garden in a drought .... it's a ban on using a hosepipe | |||
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"Happy to change that view if someone can give me a valid reason why a disability means your garden needs to be watered in a drought. a hosepipe ban isn't a ban on watering your garden in a drought .... it's a ban on using a hosepipe " Which is why I used that exact phrase in the bit you cut out  | |||
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"Happy to change that view if someone can give me a valid reason why a disability means your garden needs to be watered in a drought. a hosepipe ban isn't a ban on watering your garden in a drought .... it's a ban on using a hosepipe Which is why I used that exact phrase in the bit you cut out "does that mean you've changed your view now then? | |||
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"Happy to change that view if someone can give me a valid reason why a disability means your garden needs to be watered in a drought. a hosepipe ban isn't a ban on watering your garden in a drought .... it's a ban on using a hosepipe Which is why I used that exact phrase in the bit you cut out
does that mean you've changed your view now then?
"I am just curious to understand what is actually driving this. As per my original question, I think if there is a valid reason why someone on the tariff in question needs to be able to water their garden from a hose during a drought then I think they should water to their hearts content otherwise it just seems to be a poorly worded contract. You have affirmed it is a poorly worded contract. I still don’t really see any reason why they should not be subject to the water restrictions from a hose. | |||
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"Happy to change that view if someone can give me a valid reason why a disability means your garden needs to be watered in a drought. a hosepipe ban isn't a ban on watering your garden in a drought .... it's a ban on using a hosepipe Which is why I used that exact phrase in the bit you cut out
does that mean you've changed your view now then?
I am just curious to understand what is actually driving this. As per my original question, I think if there is a valid reason why someone on the tariff in question needs to be able to water their garden from a hose during a drought then I think they should water to their hearts content otherwise it just seems to be a poorly worded contract. You have affirmed it is a poorly worded contract. I still don’t really see any reason why they should not be subject to the water restrictions from a hose."tbf you've affirmed that your last three posts are poorly worded .... didn't realise you were a telegraph journalist 😂 | |||
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"Happy to change that view if someone can give me a valid reason why a disability means your garden needs to be watered in a drought. a hosepipe ban isn't a ban on watering your garden in a drought .... it's a ban on using a hosepipe Which is why I used that exact phrase in the bit you cut out
does that mean you've changed your view now then?
I am just curious to understand what is actually driving this. As per my original question, I think if there is a valid reason why someone on the tariff in question needs to be able to water their garden from a hose during a drought then I think they should water to their hearts content otherwise it just seems to be a poorly worded contract. You have affirmed it is a poorly worded contract. I still don’t really see any reason why they should not be subject to the water restrictions from a hose.
tbf you've affirmed that your last three posts are poorly worded .... didn't realise you were a telegraph journalist 😂"??? | |||
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"Have you ever tried picking up a full 5l watering can if you have no hands? Not that this is about watering the garden. But if it was, there is a disability where they would probably be allowed to use a hosepipe." Actually my point was about the garden. I hadn’t thought through the watering can element. | |||
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"You are allowed to water your garden. But just with a watering can. But as I say, it's not about watering the garden. " quite .... it's about the use of hosepipes in a drought .... but the usual ham-hock rags send their readers blood pressure soaring with wildly inaccurate politics of jealousy articles yet again. | |||
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"Area's with a hosepipe ban you could face £1000 fine. Unless you receive benefits and you are exempt from the ban and the fine ! I'm sure there's more to this story but ffs. I’m not sure but if your on disability benefit your exempt . Other benefits I’m unsure . Well that's understandable that if you have a disability . I. Always confused when it comes to these hosepipe bans. How do football clubs and cricket clubs get around it they must use VAST amounts of water?" Spots frailty are not included same as construction sites. | |||
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"34 million buildings in uk, only a few off grid or with rainwater collection, together uk buildings capable of 3+ trillion litres of rainwater harvest. More than half the uks 5.8trn litre consumption. Ridiculous wastage " We had rain water harvesting but where told we need an extraction licence as we where stopping the rain water from getting to the water course. Rain water is better for plants, but if you store to much there is a cost to it. | |||
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"Area's with a hosepipe ban you could face £1000 fine. Unless you receive benefits and you are exempt from the ban and the fine ! I'm sure there's more to this story but ffs. " Untrue. Unpolicable | |||
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"This is a downstream of The Sun TWO TIER HOSEPIPE BAN bollocks. TWO TIER is the new Right Wing buzzword. Some water companies explicitly exempt a narrowly defined group of customers who have exceptional water needs. That's basically people with medical conditions that require a lot of water to treat. But that's not nearly as appealing to The Sun as claiming that people on benefits get to water their lawns for 24 hours a day whilst the rest of us are slapped with £1000 fines." Question. What medical conditions require a hosepipe for treatment? | |||
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"34 million buildings in uk, only a few off grid or with rainwater collection, together uk buildings capable of 3+ trillion litres of rainwater harvest. More than half the uks 5.8trn litre consumption. Ridiculous wastage " Fully agree but it reminds me of a story from many years ago. There was a family that used to run a small garden nursery near where I used to live in the UK. Nothing big like a garden centre. Mostly they just sold bedding plants in the spring and grew tomatoes in the summer. They were pretty much semi retired and it was more of a hobby business. Anyway we were chatting one day and he was having a bit of a rant about the water company. The piece of land they used was separate but adjacent to his home and had no mains water supply. He used a series of large water butts which collected water from his greenhouse roofs and was connected to a watering system. A hosepipe from his house would have needed to be nearly half a mile long. One day he got a visit from the water company telling him he had to pay business water rates for the land. Needless to say he argued that he didn't use any of their water and collected all what he used from rainfall so why should he have to pay. The official pointed to the sky and said "see that cloud? WE OWN IT!". | |||
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