The good, the bad and downright cheeky: How cunning Brits are BEATING (and flouting) the hosepipe ban– filling up pools from their baths, taking showers standing in buckets and using ’grey water’ from their sinks to water their plants
- As 30 million people across the UK face a hosepipe ban, savvy Brits are finding ways to get round the ban
- One woman was seen breaking the ban by attaching a hosepipe directly to her bath tap to fill a paddling pool
- Gardeners have been using dirty bath and dishwater to keep their gardens flourishing despite rising temps
- Others on social media called out authorities and organisations for continuing to water their green verges
More than 30 million people across the UK are facing a hosepipe ban as temperatures continue to soar.
This means that hosepipes cannot be connected to a main hose pipe for any reason, including watering plants, filling paddling pools or washing cars.
But savvy Brits are finding hacks to get around the ban – while others are blatantly ignoring it and boasting about it on social media.
One woman on TikTok was seen to be breaking the ban by attaching her hosepipe directly to her bath tap.
She then proceeded to turn on the tap and run the hose to her outdoor paddling pool.
#uk #heatwave #hosepipeban #foryou #2ndheatwave
In the video the woman can be seen miming: ‘I am not allowed, I know I am not allowed.
‘I’ve done it now, it’s too bleeding late. What they going to do? What’s going to happen?
‘Are they going to shoot me? I doubt it, they’d have to catch me first, I’m like a whippet’.
Yesterday afternoon one cheeky Londoner was caught filing up their paddling pool using a public tap in St George’s Square, Pimlico.
Westminster Council said in response to the local’s hack that the water is for the shrubs and plants only.
It added: ‘We’d not advocate filling up pools or any other receptacle in our green spaces, especially during a heatwave.’
One cheeky Londoner decided to bring their paddling pool to St George’s Square in Pimlico, to use the council’s tap to fill it up. Westminster Council said that the water is to be used for plants and shrubs only. It added: ‘We’d not advocate filling up pools or any other receptacle in our green spaces, especially during a heatwave.’
Gardeners across the country are finding ways to keep their precious plants hydrated.
On the latest episode of Gardeners’ World, British horticulturist Monty Don encouraged people to use ‘grey water’ to water their plants whether it’s from ‘washing up dishes or yourself is perfectly good on floral plants’.
He did, however, warn people to not use it on plants that grow food.
People on social media have already taken on the advice.
Some people have been showering in a bucket to collect enough grey water to chuck on their plants while others are are draining the dirty water from their washing machines.
Other gardeners found managed to pump the grey water from their showers and their baths directly a water butt outside.
More and more people are placing buckets beside their showers and sinks to collect dirty water after they wash themselves and their dishes.
One savvy gardener has managed to find away to pump used water out of the shower through a pipe out of the bathroom window which then leads into the outside water butt.
This mother-of-two on TikTok revealed her sneaky hack of emptying 150 litres of bath water into her water butt in her garden to keep her plants alive.
The video show’s herself pulling a hosepipe through the upstairs bathroom window and attaching it with string.
She then drains the bathwater through the pipe as her husband sucks the end of it to get the bath water flowing into the container downstairs.
In total, the dirty bath water was used to fill 15 watering cans.
No wasting our bath water here! My husband taught me this hack, handy when you wanna keep your garden healthy. #lifehack #savewater #hosepipehero #waterhack
Dog owners affected by the ban are also taking steps to save as much water as possible when washing their pooches.
Others took a more comedic approach to the ban pretending to stockpile on hosepipes ahead of the ban.
These three dogs shared a bath to reduce the amount of water their owner is using week on week during the drought.
Others have seen the more comical side to the hosepipe ban, pretending to stockpile hosepipes in their back gardens.
Some people across social media posted sketches of them snitching on their neighbours using their hosepipes – despite the ban.
In some areas across the UK people are being urged to snitch on anyone they see flouting the water restrictions.
Two women on TikTok were seen poking fun at the advice to snitch on the people who live next door.
The video shows a woman filling up her outside paddling pool with a hose, supposedly during the hosepipe ban.
Her nosey neighbour is then spotted peering out through her back door in her dressing gown, feeling the rule-breaker on her phone.
The snitch is seen saying ‘yeh I got you, I got you on camera. I got you on candid camera now’ at which point the paddling pool owner shoves the hose in her mouth.
Phew 🤪 #hosepipeban #Wales #hosepipebanuk #julzandco7 #fyp
While others in more northern parts of the country reveled in the fact they were not affected by the ban so can continue to make ‘cooling stations’ throughout the hot summer.
#hosepipe #North #South #rains
Others hit out at local authorities for water parks and green spaces at a time when their residents are being told to reduce the amount of water they use every day.
Water companies, including Thames Water and Wessex Water also came under fire for not fixing leaks despite the ongoing water shortage.
Staff at Network Rail were spotted using a hosepipe to over railways and staff at London Bridge were seen spraying a hose over a buildings walls to clean them.
Southern Water has already put a hosepipe ban in place for people in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
Welsh Water announced those in Pembrokeshire will not be able to use their hosepipes from Friday August 19.
South East Water also will introduce a hosepipe and sprinkler ban for Kent and Sussex from tomorrow.
In the coming weeks Thames Water, who provide water to over 15 million people, will also forbid the use of hosepipes and sprinklers.
People have been calling out organisations for continuing to use a hosepipe despite upcoming bans across the country.
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