Does it normally rain so much during a drought?
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Bugs me reading all the facebook statuses 'why are they saying its a drought with all this rain' FFS winds me up..WATCH THE NEWS AND LISTEN!
Aas for the car washes. Last one I went to they had hoses running into overflowing buckets keeping their chamois clean
Aas for the car washes. Last one I went to they had hoses running into overflowing buckets keeping their chamois clean
Just the arc wash here now and that seems busier than ever. All tha hand car washes have vanished.
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My work here is done
(j/k but you have to admire the irony of the situation: the week after drought orders going out, it doesn't stop tipping it down)
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Drought?! This is the UK ffs, drought is a little strong don't you think? A slight lack of rainfall perhaps but drought! They have those in Africa and generally not in Europe.
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All those new houses that we built in the boom...all dumping storm water and urban run off out downstream rather than into the water table.
This seems to happen every 2-3 years in the UK: In 2009 it was Cumbria, in 2007 it was the Midlands. Yet we do not have "enough" water?
Clearly we do. Just rain is failling in areas away from the catchment areas for existing reservoirs and water tables. I think agriculture could do alot more for water conservation. And whilst building standards went ultra **** over insulation, gas ,electric and everything water related being stamped with "WRAS" approval"...what of the grey water and urban run-off recycling and upgrading and renewing of existing infrastructures to accomodate it all?
Its only a token gesture, and what once was land in the south feeding the water tables, is now the very same land sucking it dry.
This seems to happen every 2-3 years in the UK: In 2009 it was Cumbria, in 2007 it was the Midlands. Yet we do not have "enough" water?
Clearly we do. Just rain is failling in areas away from the catchment areas for existing reservoirs and water tables. I think agriculture could do alot more for water conservation. And whilst building standards went ultra **** over insulation, gas ,electric and everything water related being stamped with "WRAS" approval"...what of the grey water and urban run-off recycling and upgrading and renewing of existing infrastructures to accomodate it all?
Its only a token gesture, and what once was land in the south feeding the water tables, is now the very same land sucking it dry.
Last edited by ALi-B; Apr 19, 2012 at 01:22 PM.
Yep especially as L.A is bordering on being a desert.
A few years ago I saw a programme on t.v where an old timer was explaining how his job was to maintain channels to aid water run off. He said this was done in all areas to maximise water collection in to reservoirs. He would clean the channels, remove obstruction and generally ensure that plenty of rain water was channelled in to the reservoir. Furthermore rivers were regularly dredged to increase capacity and minimise flooding. Post privatisation he was made redundant and virtually all the up keep discontinued.
It seems that making big profits is now the order of the day and paying dividends to shareholders. Especially as some of the water utilities are foreign owned.
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I know a ground contractor who worked for the water board years ago. Everything was maintained to a schedule but once privatised then repairs are carried out when needed and not before.
When water was privatised, they new owners promised the then Tory government that they would have wastage and especially leak-wastage, under control within five years.
twenty years on, we still lose millions of gallons a day through leaks.
Two years ago I reported one to Anglian water, one of the comapnies now imposing a hosepipe ban.
They took FOUR MONTHS to come and repair it.
twenty years on, we still lose millions of gallons a day through leaks.
Two years ago I reported one to Anglian water, one of the comapnies now imposing a hosepipe ban.
They took FOUR MONTHS to come and repair it.
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Sure we have alot of rainfall but our useage is ridiculously high. Its all comparitive.
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