How can I report a case of breaching Hosepipe Ban?

KMM

Hi,

I have tried the Irish Water website but can't find any details on how to report a breach of the hosepipe ban?


Is there an email address?

Thanks in advance,

K

Irish Water: Mairead

Hi,

KMM wrote: »

Hi,

I have tried the Irish Water website but can't find any details on how to report a breach of the hosepipe ban?


Is there an email address?

Thanks in advance,

K

You can call us on 1850 278 278 or send a PM with the details here and we can certainly help.

Thanks,
Mairead

ouxbbkqtswdfaw

1850? Why no free phone number?

Irish Water: Mairead

Hi iw0fjrlc4ekpqo,

iw0fjrlc4ekpqo wrote: »

1850? Why no free phone number?

Our 1850 278 278 number is LoCall and open 24 hours a day, 7 Days a week.

You can check out all our alternate means of communication here.

Thanks,
Mairead

ouxbbkqtswdfaw

Ok Mairead, thanks.

Wanderer78

How much is the fine for breaching this ban, and when can I expect it?

dense

Irish Water: Mairead wrote: »

Hi,

KMM wrote: »

Hi,

I have tried the Irish Water website but can't find any details on how to report a breach of the hosepipe ban?


Is there an email address?

Thanks in advance,

K

You can call us on 1850 278 278 or send a PM with the details here and we can certainly help.

Thanks,
Mairead

Can you describe the help available to anyone contemplating reporting a breach of the hosepipe ban?

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Irish Water: Niamh

Hi Dense,

dense wrote: »

Irish Water: Mairead wrote: »

Hi,

KMM wrote: »

Hi,

I have tried the Irish Water website but can't find any details on how to report a breach of the hosepipe ban?


Is there an email address?

Thanks in advance,

K

You can call us on 1850 278 278 or send a PM with the details here and we can certainly help.

Thanks,
Mairead

Can you describe the help available to anyone contemplating reporting a breach of the hosepipe ban?

Once a report of a hosepipe ban breech is received, we investigate and take action if required.

Those who are reporting breaches of the hosepipe ban do so anonymously and we do not divulge their name to anyone.

Currently, we encourage everyone to please conserve water and abide by this ban to allow water supplies recover.

Kind regards,
Niamh

cbreeze

My neighbour a few doors up is watering her garden with a watering can, but she fills the can from a hosepipe.  Her grass is green.  Everybody else's is pale yellow.

Is it OK to fill a watering can with a hose - most watering can's don't fit in the kitchen sink.



Thanks

dense

Doubt it, a hosepipe is a hosepipe at the end of the day.

The ban is supposed to be an obstacle to make wasting water on grass, which will grow back, a little harder to waste.


Buy a smaller watering can

GreeBo

dense wrote: »

Doubt it, a hosepipe is a hosepipe at the end of the day.

The ban is supposed to be an obstacle to make wasting water on grass, which will grow back, a little harder to waste.


Buy a smaller watering can

How does that save water exactly?
Multiple trips with a smaller can filled from a kitchen sink will likely result in more wasted water down the sink.

demanufactured

Lol.

dense

GreeBo wrote: »

How does that save water exactly?
Multiple trips with a smaller can filled from a kitchen sink will likely result in more wasted water down the sink.

Not likely at all if a plug is inserted in the sink.
And if water does inadvertently enter the sink and not the contemplated smaller watering can, it can quite easily be collected with a syringe and put to other uses around the home, such as watering pot plants.

Hopefully the person with the watering can dillema will take our concerns on board should they decide to downsize their equipment.

shocksy

dense wrote: »

it can quite easily be collected with a syringe

Yeah cause most people have syringes lying around their homes, and who the **** is going to bother syringing water from their sink to put it in a flower pot. You need a reality check and definitely need to get out more.

An Ri rua

Most watering cans do. I've a 10l and it fits under the mixer in a standard sink.

This is a daft debate. Its law for compliant people and no law or at least no consequences for non-compliant people. Its a joke, as with all of the Irish Water story so far. No sense, or rather nonsense, applied.
So many non-residential entities are waters sprinkling. The Curragh racecourse, GAA pitches etc. While the rest if us must tighten our belts. Does paying commercial rate make it less scarce???

Yeah right.

dense

shocksy wrote: »

Yeah cause most people have syringes lying around their homes, and who the **** is going to bother syringing water from their sink to put it in a flower pot. You need a reality check and definitely need to get out more.

Gardeners might, they're sold in garden centres.


If a syringe is not available, a sponge can be used to "sponge" up any spilt water, for larger quantities a cup can be used to decant it into containers for further use.

If everyone adopted an attitude that's it's ok to waste water the hosepipe ban will take far longer to be lifted.

We have a civic duty to take extra measures to conserve it right now.

TheChizler

GreeBo wrote: »

How does that save water exactly?
Multiple trips with a smaller can filled from a kitchen sink will likely result in more wasted water down the sink.

They're counting on the average person getting fed up after a couple of trips with a watering can. The goal of this isn't to stop 100% of unnecessary usage, it's to reduce it enough so demand no longer exceeds supply.

Sleeper12

dense wrote:

Doubt it, a hosepipe is a hosepipe at the end of the day.

I use a hosepipe for harvested water & I'm not breaking any laws.

Hosepipe ban is a misleading thing to call it imo

dense

Sleeper12 wrote: »

I use a hosepipe for harvested water & I'm not breaking any laws.

Hosepipe ban is a misleading thing to call it imo

I agree, on both counts.

And research in the UK suggests that hosepipe bans do little to conserve water anyway:

"Joint research by the universities of Manchester, Edinburgh, Southampton and Lancaster in 2014 suggested that fewer than 20% of people with gardens ever used a hosepipe to water it.

The Energy Saving Trust estimates that of the average 142 litres (284 pints) of water used per person per day, only about 1% goes on the garden and 1% on the car."

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-44697603

And that can also be taken to mean that harvesting water that would otherwise have been taken from the public supply for gardening and washing cars only saves 1% of water used by people.....

Which is hardly worth the effort.

GreeBo

dense wrote: »

GreeBo wrote: »

How does that save water exactly?
Multiple trips with a smaller can filled from a kitchen sink will likely result in more wasted water down the sink.

Not likely at all if a plug is inserted in the sink.
And if water does inadvertently enter the sink and not the contemplated smaller watering can, it can quite easily be collected with a syringe and put to other uses around the home, such as watering pot plants.

Hopefully the person with the watering can dillema will take our concerns on board should they decide to downsize their equipment.

Any water in the sink is going down the drain when the user is done.

GreeBo

TheChizler wrote: »

GreeBo wrote: »

How does that save water exactly?
Multiple trips with a smaller can filled from a kitchen sink will likely result in more wasted water down the sink.

They're counting on the average person getting fed up after a couple of trips with a watering can. The goal of this isn't to stop 100% of unnecessary usage, it's to reduce it enough so demand no longer exceeds supply.

Oh I know why the ban is in place, I just disagree completely that multiple trips from the sink will save water compared to fewer fills from a tap/hose in the garden.

Then again if we had meters and usage charges it would all be a moot point.

Heres Johnny

I've been urinating on my garden for the last month or more. Do I get a rebate??

ellobee

cbreeze wrote: »

My neighbour a few doors up is watering her garden with a watering can, but she fills the can from a hosepipe.  Her grass is green.  Everybody else's is pale yellow.

Is it OK to fill a watering can with a hose - most watering can's don't fit in the kitchen sink.



Thanks

whether you fill the watering can from a tap or a hose it still only uses the same amount of water so I wouldn't say its wrong.

dense

GreeBo wrote: »

Oh I know why the ban is in place, I just disagree completely that multiple trips from the sink will save water compared to fewer fills from a tap/hose in the garden.

Then again if we had meters and usage charges it would all be a moot point.

Not true at all!

Hosepipe bans and water shortages are far more commonplace in the UK than here, despite them having had water charges for decades.

We are currently just experiencing the effects of a recurring drought event, we get them every twenty years or so, have done for the last couple of hundred years and they are expected to continue occurring.


https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-social-sciences/news/analysis-historical-records-shows-ireland-prone-drought

Victor

With a hose, a lot of the water will evaporate before it reaches the ground.

Sleeper12

dense wrote:

And research in the UK suggests that hosepipe bans do little to conserve water anyway:

I believe that it's nothing to do with hosepipes but more the urgent message it sends out. I believe that Irish water believes that people sit up and take notice to a hosepipe ban. Every TV, radio station & newspapers reported the hosepipe ban getting the message out to the whole country to be careful with water.


Unless you run a hose 24/7 it's highly unlikely that you will be caught even after your neighbours report you. Even photo evidence can't prove if it was public water used. You'd need to be caught red handed. I'd venture to say that no one will be fined at all this summer

Personally I think the hosepipe ban really doesn't do much. I thought Irish water should have reduced the night time pressure weeks before they did. This would save more water than a hosepipe ban

K.Flyer

Victor wrote: »

With a hose, a lot of the water will evaporate before it reaches the ground.

Its ireland we live in, not The Lut Desert :pac: