More restrictions on us

The Government's Environment Agency want to ration water by "banning power showers", having everyone use water meters and raising the price of water during the summer months.

The UK is a very wet set of islands and the shortages are generally because the infrastructure is so leaky and because the population levels have risen so high in certain areas.

I would also like to point out that the use of a power shower is not necessarily wasteful of water, it depends upon how many showers are taken and for how long. I shower under a power shower once a day for maybe 2 minutes at most, surely that uses much less water than running a bath. Mrs NotaSheep showers for much longer and so uses much more water; if she showered for the same amount of time as me, would that be OK with the "powers that be"? If we showered together would that be OK? Would it be acceptable if we videoed our showering together and sent it to Jacqui Smith's husband?

I presume that after banning power showers, the next move will be to ban baths, washing machines and dishwashers; already in the South East we often experience bans on hosepipes, filling paddling pools, washing cars and house windows - but not golf courses...

Maybe we will all be only allowed to flush our toilets once a day or only after number twos - As they say in the Caribbean "If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down.". Mind you on the Caribbean islands that I have visited, where the water fall is minimal compared to the UK, there are only very rare water shortages.