"T i m" wrote in message
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If hosepipe bans really *did* outlaw you using water from the tap, after
being used for bath, for watering garden via a hosepipe, than there would
be
the problem of how else do you water a garden?

You don't? After all, if there is the hint of a ban why would you use
what is likely to be a valuable a rationed commodity on keeping plants
alive over humans (a slight exception would be your vegetable patch
possibly). 'Every little helps' etc?

Assuming that you still use a conventional amount of water for baths. If
things get really bad (stand pipes etc) then I agree that is the time to
have a shower more often and a bath less often.

If you collect rainwater, you
need to make sure the water butts are higher than the ground to be watered
or have a pump.

Mum has a pump in hers that will push water though two long hoses to
her front garden. ;-)

Oh, very posh and far-sighted. Most of use have to make do with a watering
can and a bit of flexible hose from the water butt because the butt has been
set up too low to get a watering can under the tap :-)

In contrast, bathrooms are usually upstairs and so it's easy
to siphon water from there onto the garden outside.

Well, I'm not sure most would consider the process 'easy', even if
they knew how in the first place etc. I think these days some with get
Ocardo to deliver bottled water [1] and get 'a little man' to water
their garden with that instead. ;-)

At my first house, I got into the habit of taking the hose pipe upstairs,
chucking the end out of the window, filling the pipe from the tap and then
putting it into the bathwater. Not because water was in short supply, but
just because it seemed a shame to let the water go to waste down the drain
instead of using it.


It seems absurd that 4-for-£1 lager is cheaper than bottled water. Bottled
water is nearly as much of a rip off, per unit volume, as inkjet ink.
Especially as the purists say that you should never refill a bottled-water
bottle from the tap, so the bottles are single-use. Not that we abide by
that. Wash the screw neck and the cap and refill the bottle - you can get
many usages out of the bottle before the plastic starts to crack. The only
time we buy bottled water is if we are out for a walk and have forgotten to
take a bottle of tapwater from home.