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Old Apr 28, 2012 | 08:50 AM
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So are we still in a drought
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Old Apr 28, 2012 | 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by DYK
So are we still in a drought
Yeah becaase most of that water will get dumped into the river downstream (after treatment), so most of it will be out at sea by now.
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Old Apr 28, 2012 | 11:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Alg
So they called it a "drought" at a certain point in time and instigated a hosepipe ban as levels were at a certain capacity.
Since then it appears to have rained almost non stop and although I understand it wouldn't fully replenish the reservoirs etc, I'm pretty certain I heard the drought conditions/ban etc(?) are likely to extend all the way to December.

Wouldn't this therefore indicate that the hosepipe ban/drought was called far too late?
Totally agree, or it's actually fine to reverse the hosepipe ban, but they don't want to appear to have panicked for nowt
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Old Apr 28, 2012 | 11:28 PM
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Originally Posted by alcazar
You don't remember 1976 and the Tory Minister for Drought, then?
Didn't we get rain within days of the minister for drought being appointed?

Ladybower reservoir got more visitors that year than Skegness!
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Old May 15, 2012 | 10:09 PM
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Can we have an official monsoon warning please

Sincèrely f**ked off with thé rain now
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Old May 15, 2012 | 11:38 PM
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The rain/hailstorm today in N London was great
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Old May 16, 2012 | 12:22 PM
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and the fact that we don't even NEED a Hosepipe ban...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05...ergy_analysis/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/9...EU-policy.html

Desalination: cost effective nowadays and available. Yet no one uses it. Odd that.
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Old May 16, 2012 | 10:49 PM
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I was talking about this with a friend who emigrated to Ibiza - they have a desalination plant there - she was laughing at the fact that we have all this rain, they have 30 degree average temps and they can wash their cars all year round and we have a poxy hosepipe ban

In the end we decided the most cost effective route to take was to turn the Isle of Wight into one huge desalination plant and prison at the same time
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