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[devil]

We have had our ears bashed incessantly by the Cypriot media about the water crisis. The front page headlines in Friday's Cyprus Weekly proclaimed in loud letters that there is a liability of a £50 fine for anyone washing the pavement. After reading this, I happened to travel through Psevdas with a guestimated 30-40 private houses fronting the main road, at about 0930. In the few hundred metres, I passed two housewives actually in their wellies, hosing down the road like there was no tomorrow. In addition, there were seven other houses with the pavements still wet from the same treatment.

Are these stupid bitches so crass ignorant that they cannot believe the law applies to them as well? If I were the authorities, I would not only fine them the maximum, I would also cut off their water supply for a week and force them to go to a standpipe with their buckets for their household water until they learnt sense.

Remember, it is YOU who may suffer the consequences of water rationing because of this egocentric behaviour.

And please don't come back at me about wells and boreholes: the law applies to water from these, as well, as it ought. Water is water is water.

http://www.cypenv.org/Files/10_water_commandments.htm

[G.Man]

i hope you noted house numbers and reported them

[twinkle]

The cypriot housewife will wash the veranda, the walls, the pavement, the gutters, the road, the manhole covers, the neighbours pavement, the lamposts....there is no end in sight once she has that pipe in her hand!!!!!

[andri_cy]

I don't think reporting them will do any good as the police or whoever is in charge will claim they have to be caught in action by them....hopefully something will happen and they will learn...still I dont understand why an ISLAND is running out of water. Kind of silly don't you think?

[devil]

The island has plenty of water but not of the right kind at the right price at the right place with the right purification facilities and with the right government to implement the right hydrological policies and the right authorities to enforce the right regulations. Katalaveneis?

[Hazza]

devil for president. You get my vote pal!

Seriously though, who would we report them to? Its annoying knowing people are wasting water when in a month or so, we are going to have huge problems

[reportfromcyprus]

We have had our ears bashed incessantly by the Cypriot media about the water crisis. The front page headlines in Friday's Cyprus Weekly proclaimed in loud letters that there is a liability of a £50 fine for anyone washing the pavement. After reading this, I happened to travel through Psevdas with a guestimated 30-40 private houses fronting the main road, at about 0930. In the few hundred metres, I passed two housewives actually in their wellies, hosing down the road like there was no tomorrow. In addition, there were seven other houses with the pavements still wet from the same treatment.

Are these stupid bitches so crass ignorant that they cannot believe the law applies to them as well? If I were the authorities, I would not only fine them the maximum, I would also cut off their water supply for a week and force them to go to a standpipe with their buckets for their household water until they learnt sense.

Remember, it is YOU who may suffer the consequences of water rationing because of this egocentric behaviour.

And please don't come back at me about wells and boreholes: the law applies to water from these, as well, as it ought. Water is water is water.

http://www.cypenv.org/Files/10_water_commandments.htm

You worry me with the 'bitches' comment.

Why is it necessary to throw in a misogynist comment, devil? Now I'm pouting!

Seriously, though, I agree they shouldn't be wasting water, but think about it for a moment. Do you know how much dust there is and how difficult it is to breathe sometimes because of the dust? These women are laying down the dust the best they can. We had a report today which suggested that people sweep daily, but that really just re-distributes the dust.

The authorities are responsible for preventing this dust / exhaust pipe pollution also, not just laying down the law.

[Kikapu]

I already commented on this subject few weeks ago, and that was to start banning all personal swimming pools, if your house is within 20 km from the sea. A short drive to the beach, will save a lot of water.

[devil]

Sorry about the bitches comment. Not misogyny but an expression of disgust, written in anger. I would have been just as tough had it been men who were doing this. Coming to think of it, as I'm a dog-lover, it's actually a compliment! So, out with the pout!

This is actually a relic of the days when the roads were not surfaced with tarmac. Then, it was perfectly understandable to keep the dirt damp. Even a donkey passing, with the owner sitting on it and his wife walking behind, loaded with firewood, would raise dust! With modern roads, the amount of dust raised is negligible. In most countries (yes, even developing ones), the municipalities use what are essentially whacking great vacuum cleaners with a stiff bristle brush for sweeping the roads, say, once every 2 or 3 weeks. Why not here? Half a dozen or so of these machines could keep all the built-up areas on the island swept regularly.

In any case, the water dries within about an hour and you're back to square one.

If you're talking about dust indoors, do you know the #1 source? See http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/ju ... .Ot.r.html - yes, it is desquamation.

The authorities can hardly prevent khamsin sand from blowing from N. Africa, though!