Da venerdì il divieto dei tubi flessibili è esteso a tutto il Paese
https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0722/1584504-hosepipe-ban/
di qwerty_1965
Da venerdì il divieto dei tubi flessibili è esteso a tutto il Paese
https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0722/1584504-hosepipe-ban/
di qwerty_1965
19 commenti
With typical ironic timing it’ll be raining on Saturday but obviously barely wetting the surface
Petrol stations should have to turn off their car washes.
So now the plan is to potentially prosecute the entire public for normal household use of water, while placing absolutely no restrictions on commercial and industrial use.
Oh won’t somebody think of the data centres.
A hosepipe ban while actively not reporting on water usage by the centres is insane. I won’t be following along with this farce. Turn off the car washes and reduce pressure to them not the tax payers paying for the water and infrastructure.
Is it really a big deal if you can’t use a hosepipe?
This thread is going to be full of ignorant people with no concept of how bad a hose pipe actually is for water useage.
So commercial use is allowed but I’m supposed to let the vegetables in my garden shrivel up and die? Not a hope.
>According to the company, using a garden hose or sprinkler for just one hour can consume more water than the average family uses in an entire day.
Ok, what about using a hose for ten minutes to water the garden?
Shur lookit….
“Oh my god we can’t use a hosepipe to water our gardens for a couple of weeks the INJUSTICE, there is no other possible way to water a garden” grow the fuck up
I’m learning how useful it is having a rainwater collector for the garden this summer.
So in this scenario, using a hose for the 10 minutes daily to water a garden which is growing vegtables, which I consume is not going to be permitted for a month and they will wither away and die. For a country where it rains for the majority of the year, 4 weeks of dry weather shouldn’t cause this level of idiocy.
Construction workers spraying the freshly sowed grass for the new playground.
Make it make sense..
Hosepipe ban is literally just a ban on running a hosepipe.
You can still water plants using a watering can.
An average hose can use about 25 litres of water per minute. Lots of that is wasted on the ground moving from place to place. It’s a serious amount of water used in 10 or 15 mins. Your filling a bath in about 8 mins.
An average watering can is about 5litres.
Fill the cans. Target the plants specifically.
Why Friday?
I live in a county NOT currently under restriction – am I free to use a hosepipe at will today? Is it a moral or ‘common sense’ thing?
In before the data centre brigade arrive.
Same folk who bang on about palm oil in cadbury
Is there a list of exemptions for this somewhere? If kids on a sailing training course can’t hose out the metal fittings on club boats, the salt water is going cease up and/or corrode them away. When they break out at sea, that’s a pretty big health and safety issue.
The text says ‘private leisure boats’ but there’s no clarification on whether that includes sailing schools that need to maintain rescue boats and their own equipment? I know one club that was fined for trying to hose out equipment.
Like fair enough if it’s some idiot with his big yacht going out for a sail he can get wrecked but kids sailing camps should not count as ‘private leisure boats’.
15 mins of maintenance from 3pm to 3.15pm of the day would hardly even feature on a pie chart of water usage given there’s only about 7 centers in total that run courses in areas under the ban. Seems like unnecessary endangerment of kids with little reasoning.
Fuck that. If the ai data centres can guzzle up water for their ai fruit videos, i can water my plants as much as i please.
won’t someone think of the AI centres
just fix the leaky infrastructure already.