Are The Rumours True?

[Astro Bear]

"The Victorian government on Monday announced that householders in the capital would be able to hand-water gardens at any time and wash cars at home when water restrictions are eased to stage 2 for the first time in four years......

.....The restrictions will be eased from level 3a to level 2 from September 1 following heavy rains and water storage levels rising to almost 40 per cent, their highest level in almost three years."

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah.

[RBLUV]

link?

[UNR33L]

I just do it anyway with 'rain water' in a bucket

[bluejeans]

same as what i do..

it's still less water than they use at the car washes..

[Astro Bear]

LINK : http://news.brisbanetimes.com.au/breaking-...0823-13fgc.html

[Basti]

oh fuck yeah!! best news i have heard in ages. car will be washed a lot more often now

[scotty014]

oh f**k yeah!! best news i have heard in ages. car will be washed a lot more often now

+1, wouldnt want to own a car washing business now.

[Basti]

fk em. they were rubbing their hands together in glee when the restrictions started

[Astro Bear]

fk em. they were rubbing their hands together in glee when the restrictions started

Agreed. Bunch of flamin mongrels, the lot of 'em.

[UNR33L]

not in the diner alf, not in the diner.

[blackrex]

Nothing like an election coming up to get the sweeteners going, ah well, dumb bogans will still vote for them.

[_Ryan_]

Nothing like an election coming up to get the sweeteners going, ah well, dumb bogans will still vote for them.

And WTF are they doing. 39.9% is not full, so it is rather irresponsible to lighten restrictions going into spring/summer...

[JEPPE]

Gah! Why would they ease water restrictions when we are still under 50%? Keeping them strict isn't too hard and it's helping fill the dams. If we go back to dry now then it's just going to damage the supply even more The drought isn't over yet, no offence but I think the water would be more useful going on our crops and flora/fauna, rather than on our cars. Other than that hooray for more water, haven't seen this much at my fams property in over 10 years

[alr33x]

those car washes are soo annoying first sign off sun and its an 11bty mile line, plus my car only gets in/out by about 1mm not very low friendly

plus the minute u get jibbed waiting for it to go from soap to rinse and vice versa dodgy kents

[Astro Bear]

those car washes are soo annoying first sign off sun and its an 11bty mile line, plus my car only gets in/out by about 1mm not very low friendly

plus the minute u get jibbed waiting for it to go from soap to rinse and vice versa dodgy kents

Agreed. 100%

[Birds]

I love washing my car but this is so stupid. Haven't they learnt anything from the droughts? What's wrong with continuing to save our water until we're atleast above 50%?! We've survived this long without watering shit and using grey water for the cars. The farmers would be pissed, and rightfully so.

[DarkRyda]

it would be nice to wash our cars at home i must admit that but i do agree with Birds on this one! Keep trying to save as much water guys!

[JPCR33]

i 2nd that

if we start washing cars etc from home, water use will go up and we are approaching summer so not such a good idea to lower the restrictions n like said were not above 50% yet

so keep saving the water guys

[xALmoN]

I wash my car at home, with grey water, what's wrong with using that? Some bicarb to take off that carbonic acid and shit.

[blind_elk]

And WTF are they doing. 39.9% is not full, so it is rather irresponsible to lighten restrictions going into spring/summer...

They are citing the new north-south pipeline and the F*****N extremely environmentally unfriendly desalination plant as the driving forces to allow the easing of restrictions.

As for me, I wash my car with a hose, water my garden, and water my lawn whenever I want - from my rainwater tank.