Drought!????

[SPECIAL LOCATION]

So vast swathes of the country are now on DROUGHT alert!!!

with all the arsing around investing in wind farms and solar FIT's and other energy and climate issues.....

(They have been on about Global Warming for ages..)

Why hasn't anyone in this country done anything about de-salination plants to use some of the water that surrounds us..

At the end of the day ...

We are a ruddy small Island ...

we can get water piped from Wales to Birmingham ..

or the Lake District to Manchester....

How hard would it be to have a few water plants by the sea-side converting and pumping water to the areas where needed??

ALSO...

Why did they used to say.. Bath with a friend

or put a Brick in your toilet cistern?

Cuz the water that goes down the domestic drains goes back to a treatment plants and is not actually "Lost water"..

its only the stuff we spay on the garden or over the car that may disappear into the soil sub structure...

so remember...

Save Water..

drink more... GuinnessGuinnessGuinnessGuinnessGuinnessGuinnessGuinnessGuinnessGuinnessGuinnessGuinnessGuinnessGuinnessGuinness

 

[Technician]

De-salination plants are not the answer. They

are a huge cost to build and run. The cost per

ton for distilled water as compared to harvested

or precipitation water is a massive ratio and with

the current leakage from the underground systems

of distribution, it is a no-brainer.

Further, I am not certain that the national grid system

capacity is up to providing the power that these things

need.

Curacao, an island in the Caribbean, uses expensive (and

dated) de-sal plants but they depended in the past upon

water shipments in specialised vessels taken from the

Hudson River when it broke down, or to augment the de-sal

supplies.

The answer is a concentration upon leakage reduction,

increase in storage, and the public thinking about how to

reduce domestic consumption.

One of these answers may be the dry water closet that

provides high quality compost.

 

[Theorysparky]

I blame the water shortage on the Polish car washes

 

[johninlondon1]

Surely from all the pipe leakages, the water just goes back into the earth and finds it way back into the water table.

 

[Theorysparky]

but i dont think the water companies have full access to all the water tables

might be wrong on that

 

[ProDave]

ALSO...

Why did they used to say.. Bath with a friend

or put a Brick in your toilet cistern?

Cuz the water that goes down the domestic drains goes back to a treatment plants and is not actually "Lost water"..

its only the stuff we spay on the garden or over the car that may disappear into the soil sub structure...

Yes indeed. where I used to live (Thames water area) the treated water went back into the Thames, to be processed and used again further downstream. so I could never understand the logic in that. all it saved was water treatment costs, it didn't actually save any water.

Wasn't there some statistic that by the time the water gets to London, it's already been "used" about 8 times?

But up here, our water supply is from a Loch 8 miles away, and the waste is treated and goes straight to the sea (only 3 miles from the coast). Mind you we don't have a drought, so it's not a problem.

 

[septiclecky]

Surely from all the pipe leakages, the water just goes back into the earth and finds it way back into the water table.

Most leaks I see are running down the road and into the drains.

 

[Technician]

Surely from all the pipe leakages, the water just goes back into the earth and finds it way back into the water table.

John; that is part of the same problem, water

abstraction from boreholes has left even these

in a parlous condition.

Water may be moved around the country by the

abstraction from well stocked boreholes and then

by canal to where it is needed.

In 1976 a Drought Minister was appointed.

The heavens opened within 2 days.

 

[Evans Electric]

So vast swathes of the country are now on DROUGHT alert!!! with all the arsing around investing in wind farms and solar FIT's and other energy and climate issues.....

(They have been on about Global Warming for ages..)

Why hasn't anyone in this country done anything about de-salination plants to use some of the water that surrounds us..

At the end of the day ...

We are a ruddy small Island ...

we can get water piped from Wales to Birmingham ..

or the Lake District to Manchester....

And ,I,m told, the Welsh water gets here by gravity , Ah those Victorian engineers.

Trouble is Admin and Sidey run trips to the Elan Valley and they all Part P in it . :_|

 

[SPECIAL LOCATION]

Well.....

I got ruddy soaked today.... :_|

its got to be the wettest drought I have ever seen!!!! bad day explode

 

[philbas]

I dont drink water, I never bath and my beer fridge is stocked up, I'm ok

 

[steptoe]

I dont drink water, I never bath and my beer fridge is stocked up, I'm ok

I think Im gonna enjoy living in your shed.

 

[Apache]

Pi55ing down here!

 

[remustered]

Wonder by how much water consumption as increased since the start of the "recycle it drive" when gov /council advised everyone to rinse out bottles/ cans etc....multiply by a few million

 

[Evans Electric]

An appeal has just gone out for Africans to start sending

 

[batty]

I blame SL for the bad weather its only been bad since he mentioned the drought. Look at how bad it was today I got soaked too loading my van at the end of the day.

 

[Evans Electric]

I blame SL for everything!!

 

[oxford 12]

It would help if THAMES WATER AND CO,COULD REPAIR LEAKS QUICKER and better than they do now !

 

[SPECIAL LOCATION]

I blame SL for everything!!

I blame SL for the bad weather its only been bad since he mentioned the drought. Look at how bad it was today I got soaked too loading my van at the end of the day.

This place is just like home..... :|

I get blamed for everything there as well!!!!!

:slap

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[batty]

Thames water are going to insist people have water meters in the future apparently. There will be a trials of 80,000 homes to start with. If they meter ours I will have to fix the leaking loo, don't want to be paying for water going down the drain.