hosepipe

At the moment you end up having a hosepipe of abstracts and its a lot of time to review that daily.

Its a hosepipe direct to the people you don't want having that data.

Most sprays are gentle, not the high-pressure hosepipe you seem to be imagining.

Google should just cut the hosepipe, and let's see what happens.

If you're irrigating your garden, that's also going to be a big one, but quite often you get a hosepipe ban in the dry season anyway.

We had a galah chewing our hosepipe the other day.

The south east regularly has hosepipe bans in the summer.

Watering a grass lawn to lush greenness, with a hosepipe?

Here in the UK we do have pretty regular problems with the water supply, to the point that hosepipe use is sometimes regulated.

Grass lawns for pleasure were invented on a wet rock in the North Atlantic, and even we here have to stop watering them during drought conditions (aka hosepipe ban).

To get back to your water sprinkler example, it's as if your neighbors' hosepipe got trough your garden to get to his sprinkler: you can argue that this is a environmental disturbance to your garden, but that doesn't allow you to take water from the hosepipe for your own use.

I can recall a couple of occasions, perhaps in the last decade or so, when hosepipe bans were either considered or implemented but I don't recall it having any effect on our quality of life.

We still get hosepipe bans, occasional pressure reductions, and frequent "boil notices".

Seeing and feeling resistance in the chain, how little/no load results in high current (chain link throughput) was more valuable than the “water in a hosepipe” analogies I learnt in my University EE classes.