Drought?

[Getragdogleg]

Cornwall seems to be the wettest place in the world to live in, our summers are wet and the winters are wet.

I run a dehumidifier in the garage to try and keep the cars dry and it pulls about 7 litres a day out of the air. more on days that are misty with that fine miserable drizzle that Penwith specialises in.

[colonel c]

maniac0796 said:

..... water can be pumped from any resevoir to another in the south west.

Have fun with your drought.

Looking at the bigger picture. If farmers in East Anglia can't extract water for crop irrigation the cost of food will rise, effecting everyone.

[Megaflow]

Sorry, drought? We're an island for christ's sake!

[miniman]

I keep thinking about pulling together some data showing the growth in population vs our water storage capacity. It's no good saying there's less coming out of the sky - if that's the case, we need to capture more of it.

[AndyACB]

There's some pretty good info on the Environment Agency site for river levels.

All around me the monitoring stations are showing rock bottom levels.

I thought this was pretty normal for Nov thru March though with wet weather normally arriving in the spring months?

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisur...

[dmulally]

jet_noise said:

mmm, jumpers for goalposts,

regards,
Jet

Fighting peddo's off up a tree.

Glad to see that there is drought over there. In Sydney I cant remember the last weekend it didnt rain. Pretty much the whole of December it rained every day and supposed to rain 21 of 28 days this month.

[Engineer1]

Megaflow said:

Sorry, drought? We're an island for christ's sake!

Surrounded by lovely salty sea water.

UMM sea water.

[Deva Link]

The Black Flash said:

I find this interesting. In the very early 90s (90/91 IIRC), my old man was a river balif. He had a report from whatever DEFRA was called back then, on the state of water resource. It predicted that there would not be enough water for the whole country by 2010, and talked of pipelines from Scotland to the south, and even towing icebergs down from the arctic.

But now it all comes as a big surprise to the powers that be and it's panic time...

Engineer1 said:

Surrounded by lovely salty sea water.

UMM sea water.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10213835

[deeps]

The old drought story is dragged out every year now, why don't they just tell us when there's not a drought, it would be simpler.

I don't like to see waste though, all that rain water falling on everyone's roof could easily be diverted to a large tank at wall plate height to feed cisterns, especially in new builds.

[maniac0796]

colonel c said:

maniac0796 said:

..... water can be pumped from any resevoir to another in the south west.

Have fun with your drought.

Looking at the bigger picture. If farmers in East Anglia can't extract water for crop irrigation the cost of food will rise, effecting everyone.

Meh, pretty sure crop can be sourced fresh from all parts of the world by the likes of Tesco and Sainsburys.

Perhaps people in East Anglia should pay higher water bills and campaign for a better water network?

[Deva Link]

maniac0796 said:

Perhaps people in East Anglia should pay higher water bills and campaign for a better water network?

I can remember being told at school (so a long time ago) that East Anglia is technically a semi-arid region.

[odyssey2200]

How many millions of gallons of water are wasted because the water companies (foreign owned) are too busy counting their profits to fix the leaking, archaic pipes?

[Pothole]

thinfourth2 said:

Well up here we live next to a farmers field

This farmers field now has a population of ducks living in it who enjoy swimming around the field

What drought?

Is that water entering the water table and being distributed elsewhere? Didn't think so.

[Murph7355]

OzzyR1 said:

Can see how it might happen to be fair.

Had a rain shower in London on Monday afternoon and I realised that I haven't taken an umbrella to work for months now.

Can't remember the last time it rained hard tbh.

Do you work from home? Or just enjoy getting wet? Have you not received any of the slightly colder type of rain?

[dandarez]

odyssey2200 said:

How many millions of gallons of water are wasted because the water companies (foreign owned) are too busy counting their profits to fix the leaking, archaic pipes?

Exactly!

This country has never, ever, had a water 'shortage', we only have a water 'problem' (thanks to the above companies).

Saudi Arabia has a water 'shortage' - we do NOT!

[Road Pest]

Getragdogleg said:

I run a dehumidifier in the garage to try and keep the cars dry

Now that's PH right there.

[Megaflow]

Engineer1 said:

Megaflow said:

Sorry, drought? We're an island for christ's sake!

Surrounded by lovely salty sea water.

UMM sea water.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination

HTH

[jbi]

dandarez said:

odyssey2200 said:

How many millions of gallons of water are wasted because the water companies (foreign owned) are too busy counting their profits to fix the leaking, archaic pipes?

Exactly!

This country has never, ever, had a water 'shortage', we only have a water 'problem' (thanks to the above companies).

Saudi Arabia has a water 'shortage' - we do NOT!

Indeed... I must say thanks to Kielder I can't remember there being a serious water shortage in my lifetime here in Northumberland.

[Jobbo]

The Daily Mail seem to have been a year early with the same story:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1351428/Br...

[nelly1]

Jobbo said:

The Daily Mail seem to have been a year early with the same story:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1351428/Br...

And then what happened?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1263026/Mo...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1251605/A-...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1294726/St...

If you look here... it was the same the year before, and the year before that...