BBC NEWS | England | Kent | Three more hosepipe bans come in
This probably makes me morally wrong. You can tell me "if everyone else took your attitude..."
You can point out that we all have a responsibility towards society. Every little counts.
But while car washes and golf courses continue to use water, probbaly more in a day than I use for the entire year in my garden, well, shrug. It's not clear what the position is on swimming pools.
I mean we do have a water butt, and we've been using it to water the garden since we got back from holiday...not the past few days because it's actually been raining. But last summer, for example, we did get the hosepipe out on a couple of dozen occasions. And this year will be no different.
Update: Hosepipe ban criticised by union
Just 7% of rainfall in the South East was used by the public according to the GMB, and reservoirs were sold off and filled in for residential developments but new ones had not been built.
Meanwhile, firms had failed to repair Britain's creaking water system while paying out dividends to shareholders and in some areas more than a quarter of the water supply leaked out each day.
Not only that, but the hosepipe ban doesn't even work as it currently stands. For example you can use a hosepipe to fill your swimming pool, but not to keep alive plants which benefit the environment.
"People growing vegetables on a council allotment can irrigate them with a hose but gardeners growing vegetables in the back garden are prohibited.
