...from Friday.

Crazy weather over the last year. Obviously having lots of snow during the winter doesn't help at all if you have a few dry months.

I assume you are going on strike then in protest and having to walk over dry lawns?

My life is ruined

gonna rain tomorrow

i think people need to pipe down...

Looks like the hand car washes will go out of buisness,

Good cropping up on every bleedin corner...

Screw this, i'm washing my car regardless.

Haven't got a hose pipe so won't affect us when we use watering cans to water the garden, or a bucket and sponge to wash the car.

the good old fashioned way.

Exactly!

looks like i picked the wrong week to open up a colonic irrigation shop.

Its easy to criticise but the reason we are in this position is because the Labour government spectacularly failed to store water during the wet years, which is why now we all have to suffer when the sun comes out.

Is this confirmed anywhere?

How can this be? I thought global warming was invented in 1997?

Rubbish,

Firstly the north west has a lack of aquifers (natural underground stores of water) and lots of reservoirs this means water in wet months cant be stored very well as they have small capacities and evaporation is high in the summer months.

There is a long history of drought before 'new labour' came to power just lookup 1976 summer for an example

This country needs to learn how to aquire and store water more effectively, country's like Italy, Greece, Morrocco and Turkey dont have these problems even though they recieve hardly any rainfall in summer and have extended dry periods that can last 6 months

LOL and the conservatives said we didnt fix the roof when the sun was shining. I'm confused.

Don't know if you noticed that the population went past 60 million a year back. Since then, another 750 000 have come and is on its way towards 70 million by 2025.

All those extra people use water, electricity, land, roads, hospital beds, school places, etc etc. We only have a few upland areas to gatehr out water reserves.

So much for labour's open door mass immigration policy.

Who was in government in 1976?

Wasn't that the year we went for a loan from the IMF as well...?

Brilliant! Lack of water blamed on immigration!

I think that the 'hose pipe ban enforcement officer' posts have suffered redundancies due to public spending cuts.

Cameron is an ar*e

The whoosh of Sally's first post flying over your heads was quite frankly deafening.

so games will now be postponed because of rock hard pitches,lets go back to being a winter game

Not if the club was self-sufficient for its supply to water the pitch.

Here's a thought. Why dont we all stop wasting water rather than blaming those in power (who we know will do sod all about it in any case). Personally hosepipe ban aint a problem to me. Plants in the garden are drought resistant, car can go dirty and beer dont come out the tap!