WTF local news already talking hosepipe bans this summer

[magpie215]

unbelievable .....I am speechless apparently april and may have been drier than "normal"

[FourWheelDrift]

In your area? Didn't you have loads of floods earlier this year and late last?

Oh and this act of poor local planning doesn't help I'm sure - http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/8188647....

[cazzer]

It has been...uber dry.

I have a stream that runs off my land and down the drive.
It's been dry for months.
It hasnt been dry in the 10 years I've lived here.

[mybrainhurts]

Reservoir levels in my neck o' the woods are dropping fast....

[sherman]

cazzer said:

It has been...uber dry.

I have a stream that runs off my land and down the drive.
It's been dry for months.
It hasnt been dry in the 10 years I've lived here.

You sure its not just blocked further up stream? Something may of fallen in or move with all the snow earlier this ear.

[cazzer]

Nope....the muddy bits on the land arnt...theyre dry and solid.

[CoopR]

Hopefully no such problem up here. There's still about 6 feet of snow on the Scottish mountains, the stuff is going to be giving us meltwater non stop. Although the river Dee is going to be a bit chilly for swimming in this summer!

[Tsippy]

Not to worry, it's all preperation for the rising sea levels from global warming

[deeps]

I heard that Cumbria has had it's driest spring for 60 years, and after those man made global warming flash floods of last year, obviously this is a man made global warming drought. If we all paid even more fossil fuel tax the government would put a halt to all of these events of nature that we have to endure.

[nelly1]

If only there was a way man could invent to 'store' all that water that falls from the sky so we could use it in the drier months.

Some sort of 'hole' were we could 'reserve' all that rain...

I mean we've never had dry spells this bad before, have we?

[F i F]

nelly1 said:

If only there was a way man could invent to 'store' all that water that falls from the sky so we could use it in the drier months.

Some sort of 'hole' were we could 'reserve' all that rain...

I mean we've never had dry spells this bad before, have we?

Now if we pumped the water from wet spells into holes in the ground, plus pumped all this CO2 that the buggers are taxing us three times over for we'd end up with fizzy dandelion and burdock pop on tap.

Wanders off to Govt for research grant...

[zakelwe]

It has been a dry couple of months but before that we had rain for about 9! Looks ok to me

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/static/docume...

they'll use any excuse to not fix leaky pipes until they have to ...

Andy

[Rob13]

I was up Heron Pike in the Lakes last week where there is a small tarn half way up. It looked to have receded about a foot from the usual water line.

[speedchick]

This is the same water company who left customers without water for 10 days cos they couldn't fix a valve, and the same company that loses millions of gallons a day, oh and the same one who send out bills that are running a close second in numbers to the lecky company.

Feck em, I'm paying through the nose for it, I am gonna damn well use it!

[tamore]

with the amount of rainfall we've had in the last 36 months, this is laughable. summer 2008 and 2009 were a washout. surely the ground water levels are very healthy now, even if the flow rate of the odd stream looks a bit feeble at the moment.

[Carfiend]

There has been a water main that has been leaking on and off for the past year near Amersham. That is part of the reason why there will be a hosepipe ban.

[Yeast Lord]

Its cold and wet, why the hell would there be a pipe ban?

[Galsia]

I don't have a hose pipe or a water meter but I water my garden with a watering can (about 10 full cans a day during summer). Okay for me I guess...

[Gun]

The problem we're going to face this year is that we had a lot more snow than usual during the winter which doesn't yield as much water as rainfall, one inch of rain equates to about 10 inches of snow so you can see how little has fallen. During those couple of months where the country was frozen solid we had barely any rain at all.

Edited by Gun on Wednesday 2nd June 10:11

[10 Pence Short]

Gun said:

The problem we're going to face this year is that we had a lot more snow than usual during the winter which doesn't yeald as much water as rainfall, one inch of rain equates to about 10 inches of snow so you can see how little has fallen. During those couple of months where the country was frozen solid we had barely any rain at all.

Except for the well publicised floods late last year (which ran straight off the Lake District and into the Irish Sea), there has been very, very little rain in Cumbria. Considering it's traditionally one of the wettest parts of the UK and responsible for supplying a good amount of water to the conurbations of the North West (such as Manchester), I can well believe there will be problems this summer.

Thirlmere, a reservoir between Keswick and Ambleside serving the area mentioned above, is about as low as I've ever seen it at this time of year.