BRITS FACE HOSEPIPE BAN.. IN WINTER!

DROUGHT-hit Britain could be facing a winter hosepipe ban within weeks.

Worried water firms fear taps could run dry after Friday's storms did little to top up reserves.

The driest autumn since 1897 comes after a sun-scorched summer.

Barrie Clarke at Water UK admitted: "If we don't get serious rain in the next two months, we may have to impose restrictions."

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Well after us Brits thought we'd got off with the heatwave lightly, it looks like the effects are beginning to show.

whats a hosepipe??a well or something??

Originally posted by sirCyco
whats a hosepipe??a well or something??

(John Nada shakes his head in shame!)

im not from your country..i dont know your terms

oh did you mean a water faucet?

seemingly this is pretty bad where i live?

The 2 main resevoirs that supply Fife are almost 75ft below normal levels!!!!

Originally posted by sirCyco
oh did you mean a water faucet?

a hosepipe is an elongated strip of plastic/rubber compund, a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas.
im sure you knew the term sircyco, we all go a little braindead now and then, no big deal...

ive never heard anybody call a water hose a hosepipe..sorry

Originally posted by sirCyco
oh did you mean a water faucet?

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Text: i believe a faucet is a spiggot, and neither is hosepipe

but being Lithuanian, wadda-iknow...

Dammit, i never realised the water supplies were so low Not that i use a hosepipe often so that part shouldnt bother me

just call it a garden hose.