What drought?

[88ESR]

It's absolutely hammering down here and has been for the past 3 hours...

[TeddyThom]

Been on and off bloody monsoon season down here an all

[Andy]

I have given up on this week now,too far behind so will just roll it over,sod trying to catch up.Hasnt stopped properly since tues afternoon,and tues morning hammered it down.

[88ESR]

Hmmm..

Bet the hosepipe bans are still on though...

[Nova_Tek]

Of course they will be. Unless the place floods they'll stay on!

[scott.parker]

Hose pipe bans, lol tell that to EVERY one Ive seen using them, who do you call, the hose police? lol

Anyway the water board company's are wasting more of it from not fixing all these stupid leaks you see everywhere, so i say sod them, go use your hose pipes, wash your frigging cars!

[Jack]

Problem is when you have such a long period of dry (not necessarily sunny and warm btw lol), it takes a LOT to bring the water table back up. Any sharp downpours simply run straight off the hardened ground without being soaked up. You need a good few weeks at least of relatively constant light rain to replenish the water levels

[Andy]

Hosepipe bans?
What about all the water fed pole window cleaners who use 1000litres+ a week??
Impossible to enforce,plus all those businesses would fail,resulting in less tax being paid/lost revenue in all aspects of other areas etc.

[Nova_Tek]

Businesses can still use hose pipes etc. It's residents who cannot. The fact that billions of litres of water that leak annoys me. As they don't fix them fast enough but we take the punishment for it.

Problem also is that homes not on a meter could easily have the tap running for hours without anyone seeing. but have your hosepipe outside in use and someone will probably grass you up.