In 2010, a hosepipe ban was introduced in the north-west due to drought.
Much of SPICE takes place in computers and laboratories, but one part was to be an actual experiment a tethered balloon with a kilometre-long hosepipe attached to it.
That is the dilemma facing gardeners in England after a hosepipe ban came into force on April 5th.
A better analogy right now might be of a hosepipe with a knot tied in it.
Survivors said a group of inmates used a homemade flame-thrower, fashioned from a hosepipe and a gas canister, to set fire to a mattress barricade erected by a rival group in their barred cell.
Even small changes in the efficiency of farming practices can have far larger effects overall than hosepipe bans in the suburbs.
Once this had happened, the current could gradually have extruded itself from one of the denser areas of cloud, and followed it as it drifted through space--hanging on, in Dr Benford's words, like a lamprey.However, this current itself twists around and around as it flows through the magnetic field, the way a torrent of water twists up a fire-fighter's hosepipe.
So, in future, water utilities must put away the stick of hosepipe bans, and offer the consumer real incentives to conserve water.
It is two successive winters with very low rainfall which have put all of southern England and the Midlands into official drought status, involving hosepipe bans, and for all April's rain, a third dry winter cannot be ruled out.
They have been communicating with rescuers, and receiving liquid and oxygen, via a giant hosepipe which had been in place since before the mine collapsed.
As we swoon, swelter and roast in temperatures above 31 degrees in some parts of the country, the traditional signals of the basting season arrived this week – a hosepipe ban and government warnings about mad dogs and people burning themselves in the midday sun.
