Re: O/T Hose pipe ban...... : Fri Jul 09, 2010 5:14 am  

This country realy is pathetic!!!
Bit of rain and most places flood,
Bit of snow and you dont see a binman for 2 months??
and now bit of sunshine hosepipe ban!!


Mind you it could be worse in some countries they have to walk bout 8 miles with a bucket on their heads just to get water!


p.s Do you get a reward if you dob someone in for useing their hosepipe???

Re: O/T Hose pipe ban...... : Fri Jul 09, 2010 6:54 am  

Wires71 wrote:

Humour me. How do United Utilities make more money (and profit) by selling less water against a fixed cost base?

Because some pay a fixed amount based on their property size regardless of usage, while others who have water meters pay for what they use. Will my fixed monthly charge drop now because we are not using the hose-pipe? Somehow I don't think so... Revenue won't increase but as selling less for the same price is always going to increase the GP margin!

Re: O/T Hose pipe ban...... : Fri Jul 09, 2010 7:21 am  

Alfie Langer No2 wrote:

Because some pay a fixed amount based on their property size regardless of usage, while others who have water meters pay for what they use. Will my fixed monthly charge drop now because we are not using the hose-pipe? Somehow I don't think so... Revenue won't increase but as selling less for the same price is always going to increase the GP margin!

Alfie out of interest do you know how much United Utilities pay per litre of water compared to what they sell it at?

wired 71 is so going to rip your response to pieces.

Re: O/T Hose pipe ban...... : Fri Jul 09, 2010 7:25 am  

Just washed the car, now to fill up the giant swimming pool in my back garden, yeah feck em all!!!!!

Re: O/T Hose pipe ban...... : Fri Jul 09, 2010 9:45 am  

DJ Birchy Ford Clinic wrote:

Just washed the car, now to fill up the giant swimming pool in my back garden, yeah feck em all!!!!!

Viz top tip. Fill the pool up by using cups instead of a hose pipe to beat the ban.

Re: O/T Hose pipe ban...... : Fri Jul 09, 2010 9:56 am  

latchfordbob wrote:

Viz top tip. Fill the pool up by using cups instead of a hose pipe to beat the ban.

Brilliant Bob. You can't beat the Top Tips page.
One of my faves was "Avoid jet-lag, by simply taking an earlier flight"

back on topic, now....

Wise words by "the Ditch" earlier. Absolutely spot on.

To think, this country used to rule the world with it's engineering feats (Brunell, etc), but we cant tend to water pipes which we know have been leaking huge amounts of water for decades.

Re: O/T Hose pipe ban...... : Fri Jul 09, 2010 10:18 am  

It's at times like this that I'm glad my decade long tenure at UU came to an end 3 years ago.

Saying that though, where I am at the moment, the whole business park doesn't have any water due to some piping issues. Guess I won't be drinking my 8 pints of water a day then. Should send us home, very unhygenic. Can't even have a slash as the toilets are not working.

Re: O/T Hose pipe ban...... : Fri Jul 09, 2010 11:50 am  

theres a scene in Water World where Kevin costners piddles into some little machine, he turns a a handle a few times and hey presto pure drinking water comes out the other end...

try that....

PS please be careful when Googling water world and pee

Re: O/T Hose pipe ban...... : Fri Jul 09, 2010 1:18 pm  

If I have a water butt, and use it to water the garden, can I fill the water butt up from the garden tap by using a watering can, and then use the hosepipe from the butt?
My brain hurts!

Re: O/T Hose pipe ban...... : Fri Jul 09, 2010 1:25 pm  

the ditch wrote:

This country realy is pathetic!!!
Bit of rain and most places flood,
Bit of snow and you dont see a binman for 2 months??
and now bit of sunshine hosepipe ban!!


Mind you it could be worse in some countries they have to walk bout 8 miles with a bucket on their heads just to get water!


p.s Do you get a reward if you dob someone in for useing their hosepipe???

For starters you don't have to say Leigh is a foreign country just because we have to walk to Pennington Flash with a bucket for water, and who are you dobbing in? If you get cash, i'm going to dob my neighbour in, fat cow.