Monday 16 April 2012

It'll all be over by Xmas part 94.

Headline at the BBC:

Drought may last until Christmas

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5 comments:

Sean said...

Xmas? which year?

As for as I can see we have added 11% on the population over the last 15 years and another 10 plus over the coming 15 with no corresponding increase in water capacity.

Even the current shower calling themselves a Govt have vetoed a billion pound dam just recently in Oxfordshire. I think that's around 20 odd different projects the water companies have shelved over the past 10 years.

Its all down to leeks apparently? as if moving water around the place is the same as shifting boxes of biscuits.

A dripping tap uses around 30k cubic litres a year, and if you have a meter you will know just how hard leaks are to find when they show up on your bill.

We deserve a hot summer and standpipes, the world will be able to see first hand in July just what a bunch of morons we are.

Britain the land of rain...Dry!

16 April 2012 at 08:58
Sean said...

Sorry, 8k per tap at 21 litres a day

16 April 2012 at 09:08
Mark Wadsworth said...

S, it's only up 8% over the past 15 years, but fair point. The NIMBYs are indeed partly to blame and leeks are vegetables.

16 April 2012 at 09:57
Sean said...

Only 8% I will put the bunting out.

The south east I have to admit is a very dry place due to its geographic location. Atlantic rain is funneled away from the SE and the currents in the North sea add to the dying effect. Sydney had a twice the rainfall of London for just one example.

What is needed is more Reservoirs and a national water grid, but even if we start tomorrow the scale is such that your are looking at 15 to 25 years to complete by which time the problem will be amplified by even more demands on the system.

Whats the public needs is a milly dowler moment when they can work out the issue is not something unrelated to them. Standpipes might do the trick.

Then as a starter we can get on with public executions of Brown, Blair and Prescott ect. I suggest analy drowning them by sticking a hose pipe up their arses.

16 April 2012 at 10:13
Bayard said...

Agreed it's absurd that there should be water shortages in rainy old England, but the fact that we use drinking water to flush our toilets and water our lawns may have something to do with it.

16 April 2012 at 11:12

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