00:00Early this morning it was announced that a hosepipe ban would come into place across Yorkshire.
00:04This will begin on Friday the 11th of July and will go on until enough rain falls,
00:09potentially even into winter. The Environment Agency announced a drought in Yorkshire in June
00:14and anyone who chooses to use their hosepipe in this time could be fined up to a thousand pounds.
00:19To avoid this fine people should avoid using hosepipes connected to the mains
00:23for anything including watering plants, filling up a pond or even cleaning.
00:28There is also a ban on anything that does a similar thing, for example pressure washers or sprinklers.
00:34You can however fill up a watering pan through a tap. The only exception for a hose is if it's
00:39connected to a recycled water system, for example a water bath. There will not be roving officers
00:44in place to enforce this ban so the council are relying on residents and neighbours to report
00:49on each other if a hosepipe is used. The council have not yet released a definitive answer on what
00:54will happen with the water fountains around town. However on a short inspection we can see that the
00:58ones outside City Hall are still running whereas the ones in Millennium Square and outside the Peace
01:03Garden seem to have stopped.
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