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I'm still a wee bit confused as to why they are not building more reservoirs - plenty of water about, we just let the rivers flood and it goes into the oceans.
Thames Water having been trying to build a new reservoir for going on 40 years...everybody wants modern infrastructure, but nobody wants the disruption of building it. So we're stuck with the Victorian Water supply system.
If they stopped the leaks it would help - and if people did not have enormous water consumption.
Water meters in all affected ares with a progressive tariff - punitive at higher usage levels?
Personally I think its got bugger all to do with the amount of rain.
The south east is over populated, therefore too much water is being removed from the environment. You have to take a longer look at the environmental impact of building housing, more people taking more water.
We will see streams drying up and the water table dropping but then there will be a knock on environmental impact. Species migration or extinction. The only way for the the south east to survive it current growth and remedy the growth over the last 20 ears is to invest in desallination.
Oh and get thames Water to fix the bloody leaks.
[url= http://blackswhitewash.com/2012/04/26/bbc-props-up-the-orrible-drought-fantasy/ ]Here's[/url] some more data to confuse you. It's all part of the global warming brainwashing.
I think the water co's do a good job really - about 50p a day for water and the same for sewerage and a service that is pretty reliable in the main (excuse pun).
I'd rather have a hosepipe ban every so often than the flipping gas and elec prices and petrol prices.
Perhaps with a growing population we need to think more about how we value water (and waste water)
FunkyDunc - Member"No, I don't get it either."
Read above, its all to do with the water table and how it is way too low. All this rain is just running off in to the rivers and oceans and doesnt soak in to the ground. It takes time to fill up the water table.
Yep, I get that bit.
The bit I don't get is that apart from 2 weeks of sunshine, it appears to have lagged it down unremittingly in Tod every single sodding day since June 2009.
Selective memory is a terrible curse.
Here's some more data to confuse you. It's all part of the global warming brainwashing.
Seriously? That bloke is more selective and ignorant than most I've seen. If you take that as 'fact' or 'news' then you really shouldn't stray from the Daily Mail.
Same annual rainfall, but in shorter, heavier rainfalls. So, you get the same average rainfall, but if it comes in 10 storms we're knackered for all the real reasons like runoff. Reservoirs can be full, but they get used. If there isn't the water to fill them then we run out. You can't just drain the rivers either - there is a maximum extraction permitted to retain the wildlife.
Compulsory metering methinks. Might make some people stop wasting so much through the rigmarole of modern living.
It is a finite resource after all.
Back to the OP - Drought my A**e.
Break out the rescue boats.
rogerthecat - Member
Back to the OP - Drought my A**e.
Break out the rescue boats.
Indeed - 5 months of rainfall over this weekend I believe?
Notwithstanding that, where I live Thames Water have maintained thier hosepipe ban on the basis they need to save all this water in case of another dry winter next year. That statement was made a week after they let 3m litres of water flood into the London tube network after a pipe burst.
:-/
It is a finite resource after all.
i've got a builder's bucket/tub thing at the bottom of my 'garden', it's about 400mm deep, i've emptied it 4 times since the start of the year.
even ignoring overflow and evaporation, i make that 1.6metres of rainfall.
1.6...
metres.
drought my arse, if we're running short it's because we're doing something wrong, it's not because there isn't enough rain.
(i got soaked on my way to work, soaked on my way home, soaked on my way to the bank, soaked on my way home, i've run out of dry socks and it's still chuffing raining!)
Absolutely gash weather here. Will my new
road bike work in the rain?
Mike-E - Member
Absolutely gash weather here. Will my new
road bike work in the rain?
Absolutely not.
ahwiles - MemberIt is a finite resource after all.
i've got a builder's bucket/tub thing at the bottom of my 'garden', it's about 400mm deep, i've emptied it 4 times since the start of the year.
even ignoring overflow and evaporation, i make that 1.6metres of rainfall.
1.6...
metres.
drought my arse, if we're running short it's because we're doing something wrong, it's not because there isn't enough rain.
(i got soaked on my way to work, soaked on my way home, soaked on my way to the bank, soaked on my way home, i've run out of dry socks and it's still chuffing raining!)
Ah but did you take advantage and walk around with your mouth open or are you relying on your local water company to send you some to drink via a tap at home? The difference between the two = implied water shortage.
Now it's been 30 years but I'm pretty sure when I was at school that a bucket is no way to measure rainfall as the opening is too big. So it'll be safe to say your measurement is miles off.
Drac, that one needs more of an explanation.
did you take advantage and walk around with your mouth open or are you relying on your local water company to send you some to drink via a tap at home?
i pay yorkshire water about £1/day for lovely clean drinkable water to be pumped directly into my kitchen. it'd be cheap at twice the price.
I'd have to read up on it and I can't be arsed but a bucket is not used to measure the monthly rainfall as it catches more than there falls due to the width of it's mouth. Something to do with how the rainfalls but as I say it was 30 years ago and I probably was too busy staring out of the window or drawing pictures of fighter planes.
According to the nice man on Radio 4 it would need to rain from now to December, without let up, to avert another drought.
and from the bbc today
Mike Hegarty, operations director for Sutton and East Surrey Water, said
"Normally winter rainfall recharges the aquifers. The recharge is unprecedented and is the highest increase in water levels ever recorded in our area at this time of year."
is it time to sort out leaks in the system now?
or is that not a priority now the aquifers are charged back up?