Water is precious!

McSandwich

I wonder why people responsible for 'taptips.ie' felt it was necessary to run a radio ad campaign warning against watering the garden during this rain drenched summer. Are they based in some drought stricken part of the world?

Someone should tell them to conserve their money (or use it to repair their leaky water distribution pipes). In the meantime, If they want water there's plenty in my flooded garden which they can have for free..

R0ot

/me looks out window at the pouring rain

/me slaps taptips.ie

spadder

I agree, the ads are a complete waste.

maybe an ad featuring the wasters at the county councils would be more informative

astrofool

Top TapTip for McSandwich:

Feeling thirsty? Save water from the reservoirs, instead of filling a glass of water from the tap, go outside and lick your flooded garden.

dazberry

Its so they can get us all in the frame of mind of having to pay for water in the next 3 - 5 years or so. W*nkers.

D.

Gran Hermano

I think this post from last year shows the intelligence of those
taptips chaps. One would think they'd have learnt by now.

McSandwich

astrofool wrote: »

Top TapTip for McSandwich:

Feeling thirsty? Save water from the reservoirs, instead of filling a glass of water from the tap, go outside and lick your flooded garden.

Not so top public money saving tip for city/ county councils:

Tax payers money buring a hole in your pocket? Why not splash out and blow some on radio ads? Tell them not to water their gardens at a time when so much of the precious stuff is falling from the sky only a fool would bother with a watering can.

Of course it's possible that that the councils are planning for a heat wave, news of which has not yet been made public, in which case the ads make perfect sense.

stevecrow74

drought.. what effing drought??

there has been so much rain today that the trout and salmon are using the road outside as a shortcut up the river :eek::eek:

Jay P

Gran Hermano wrote: »

I think this post from last year shows the intelligence of those
taptips chaps. One would think they'd have learnt by now.

How do you remeber about posts from so long ago?!

Anyhoo, water is really serious, kids. Is it possible to invest in it? After all, it is running out....

dsmythy

Jay P wrote: »

How do you remeber about posts from so long ago?!

Anyhoo, water is really serious, kids. Is it possible to invest in it? After all, it is running out....

The big money lies in international water distribution. Some places will begin to lose their water supply and people will start dying of thirst. Then of course they will pay handsomely for your tankerload of fresh water. Of course you'd have to become an evil corporate monster.

Skip to 2:12 and see what our country will be in a few years. Damned water conserving hippies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwyGnuLfxBo

msg11

Gran Hermano wrote: »

I think this post from last year shows the intelligence of those
taptips chaps. One would think they'd have learnt by now.

Priceless. :pac:

McSandwich

Deleted User wrote: »

Skip to 2:12 and see what our country will be in a few years. Damned water conserving hippies.

Not if this turns out to be true :

Regarding water conservation -

In Dublin, Kildare, and Wicklow 20 million litres of treated water are lost to water mains leaks every day! This problem has been known about for at least 20 years yet repair work only started last year. ( http://www.watermainsrehab.ie/files/07-04-26-pressrelease.pdf )

Water pollution resulting from sewage and farm land run off into our rivers and lakes continues to pollute drinking water and kill fish in many parts of the country. For example Galway and Ennis where water quality has been an issue since the early '90s.

If water is precious then why is it taking so long to deal with these issues?

skywalker

Gran Hermano wrote: »

I think this post from last year shows the intelligence of those
taptips chaps. One would think they'd have learnt by now.

That picture popped into my head when reading the first post, one of my finer moments that one

slipss

Am I wrong in thinking that as the planet gets hotter droughts will increase in hot places, but the ice will also melt in others, the amount of water on the planet is fixed, it doesn't drift of into space of transorm itself into sand?

Honey-ec

Who in God's name would water their lawn for an hour anyway???

taidghbaby

taptips new spokesman i hear:

keen

Not only that, they tell you how much water is used if you water your garden for an hour, who spends an hour watering their grass?

Honey-ec wrote: »

Who in God's name would water their lawn for an hour anyway???

Snap didn't see your post.

jimmycrackcorm

slipss wrote: »

Am I wrong in thinking that as the planet gets hotter droughts will increase in hot places, but the ice will also melt in others, the amount of water on the planet is fixed, it doesn't drift of into space of transorm itself into sand?

Not only is the amount of water fixed and permanent but we're drinking the same water now that the dinosaurs drank and as people will be drinking thousands of years from now.

Unless of course, someone drinks some of that water found on Mars and then comes back to earth to piss..

Macha

Ah come on guys. The water that comes out of the taps isn't the same as the stuff coming from the heavens. Its not like your local authority can just collect rain & pump it into your house. It has to be treated and that costs money-tax payers money.

Yes, there are 161 million litres of water lost PER DAY through pipe leakages. A lot of water. DCC has set aside a load of money to upgrade the network & reduce this wastage. I think anyone living around Ringsend will have seen them, anyway.

At the same time, approximately 65 litres of water are lost per day, per household. That also is a lot of water. It would be stupid of the government to spend all its resources tackling one side of the equation (distribution losses) and ignoring the other side (customer side losses).

jcgowran

McSandwich

I agree with you

TapTips should install a few Mecon Water Savers in the Dublin city council Loos and save their money and Water

Gurgle

taconnol wrote:

The water that comes out of the taps isn't the same as the stuff coming from the heavens. Its not like your local authority can just collect rain & pump it into your house.

afaik, the water that falls out of the sky doesn't have to be treated - but most household water comes from sources that were polluted further upstream.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

I'd really like to know how people find all these threads from months or years ago. I've got to admire the dedication anyway.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Saving water is thirsty work...

Overheal

Well if you want to believe in Jesus, all these ad's are actually meant for him. by using radio you can broadcast wayyyy into heaven and hope he listens - if you're lucky, he'll turn off his sprinklers. But he's an awful neighbour if you ask me, and not much of a green thumb.

jcgowran

Your so right McSandwich - Water is Precious -

These Tap Tips Posters are all over Dublin. They don't seem to reaalise 33% of water in the house goes down the loo and now they want to flush the Shannon down the Dublin loos also. How Crazy!

All they have to do is stick a few of these Mecon Green Buttons on their loos and the problem is solved

www.meconwml.com