This as to be ?
Jon Ison - 27/4/12 at 05:34 PM
The wettest drought on record ?
monck - 27/4/12 at 05:43 PM
Agree 
It even flood's ...
Daddylonglegs - 27/4/12 at 05:45 PM
http://locostbuilders.co.uk/forum/7/viewthread.php?tid=169434
morcus - 27/4/12 at 05:59 PM
Maybe that super pricey water butt was worth the money after all?
Daddylonglegs - 27/4/12 at 06:18 PM
You're not going to start a water butt panic buying session are you? 
Benzine - 27/4/12 at 06:21 PM
I finished rigging up a water butt to my greenhouse about an hour ago so there should be no more rain now for months
minitici - 27/4/12 at 06:22 PM
Stop complaining you southern softies 
It has rained virtually non-stop since last May here in Fife 
splitrivet - 27/4/12 at 06:33 PM
Apperently its the wrong sort of rain though.
Cheers,
Bob
austin man - 27/4/12 at 06:58 PM
Not bad is it when we think we are so advanced as a country / civilisation yet we cant catch water
Slimy38 - 27/4/12 at 07:02 PM
Considering what pollutants our various industries and transport options pump into the air, personally I'm glad we don't catch it! Let
mother nature scrub it clean before it gets anywhere near my tap!
Ninehigh - 27/4/12 at 07:47 PM
I like the way an island can run out of water
austin man - 27/4/12 at 08:27 PM
well we ran out of money as well lol
sonic - 27/4/12 at 08:35 PM
What makes me laugh is that yes we are an island and we run out of water, but they are putting up windmills everywere waiting for the wind to blow to
create electricity.
Why not save money building coastal defences to stop our island being washed away and put a wave energy device in the way so the tide can batter that
to creative electricity, after all the tide goes in and out everyday, endless energy if harnessed properly.
TAZZMAXX - 27/4/12 at 08:44 PM
quote:
Originally posted by sonic
Why not save money building coastal defences to stop our island being washed away and put a wave energy device in the way so the tide can batter that
to creative electricity, after all the tide goes in and out everyday, endless energy if harnessed properly.
I think the boring answer is that it is much more expensive to harness the power of the sea to generate the same level of power that a wind turbine
does.
coozer - 27/4/12 at 08:52 PM
quote:
Originally posted by TAZZMAXX
quote:
Originally posted by sonic
Why not save money building coastal defences to stop our island being washed away and put a wave energy device in the way so the tide can batter that
to creative electricity, after all the tide goes in and out everyday, endless energy if harnessed properly.
I think the boring answer is that it is much more expensive to harness the power of the sea to generate the same level of power that a wind turbine
does.
Well said, and 200 times more expensive to generate power from wind than employ thousands of people digging coal out and burning that.....
Ninehigh - 27/4/12 at 09:03 PM
quote:
Originally posted by austin man
well we ran out of money as well lol
We're not surrounded by a couple of thousand miles of money though!
Benzine - 27/4/12 at 09:05 PM
everything's gone down the pan since ninehigh changed his Holly avatar tbh
Peteff - 27/4/12 at 10:41 PM
quote:
Originally posted by splitrivet
Apperently its the wrong sort of rain though.
Cheers,
Bob
I heard that as well, apparently it flows uphill away from the reservoirs so it is all accumulating at the top of hills now.
adithorp - 27/4/12 at 10:54 PM
No shortage around here. In fact we can't store any more. Took these pic's a couple of weeks ago of the over flowing resevoirs. Can't
remember seeing them all as full as this before.
As a clue to location all I'll say is "This is local water, for local people"
spiderman - 27/4/12 at 11:10 PM
Can't be the Elan valley reservoirs then, located in Wales, with the water ending up in Birmingham.
[Edited on 27/4/12 by spiderman]
mangogrooveworkshop - 28/4/12 at 05:48 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Ninehigh
I like the way an island can run out of water
Speak for yourself mate .......oh i forgot anything north of the watford gap is no mans land
Up here in SCOTTY LAND we have no problem with water ........in fact we have way too much.
mangogrooveworkshop - 28/4/12 at 05:54 AM
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Originally posted by minitici
Stop complaining you southern softies
It has rained virtually non-stop since last May here in Fife
You tell em .....
Kielder Water was built to supply Teesside steel works and chemicals factories but today the reservoir sits largely unused. Photograph: Chris Leachman
/Alamy
Overlooking the cathedral city of Winchester is St Catherine's Hill, a beauty spot with a dirty secret. Just beyond the hill's ancient fort,
Winchester pours its sewage into the hillside, from where Southern Water eventually supplies it to taps across south Hampshire. It's quite safe.
The chalk cleans the sewage well. There should be more of this. With England facing the worst drought for a generation, we can no longer drink our
water only once.
Britain is not a wet country. South-east England gets less rain per head than Sudan. And while most of the rain falls in the north and west, the
population increasingly congregates in the south and east. That's why this week there were calls for a national water grid.
The first grid link could send Welsh water to London, via the River Severn and massive pumps that would get it over the Cotswolds and into the Thames.
Soon, Whitehall may dust off old plans to turn the Wash into a giant freshwater reservoir for the Midlands.
But when we build big, we usually build wrong. Our biggest reservoir was opened by the Queen 30 years ago. Kielder Water is a mile from the Scottish
border, and was built to supply Teesside steel works and chemicals factories. But by the time it was finished, those industries had all shut down.
Today the reservoir sits largely unused. The tunnel dug to take its water from the Tyne to the Tees has only opened its taps twice.
We should forget boosting water supply and instead curb demand. Not with pathetic exhortations to consumers, like Thames Water's call last summer
for women to stop shaving their legs in the shower, but with engineering.
London doesn't need Welsh water – or hairy legs. It needs to cut Thames Water's obscene leakage rates. The company currently loses 30% of
the water it puts into the mains – 200 litres a day for every customer. Paris and New York only lose around 10%; Singapore is below 5%. England and
Wales leakage rates, at about 25%, are higher than a decade ago.
And the privatised water companies should abandon their scandalous insularity and start sharing water. Last December, the Environment Agency told
ministers that the myriad small water companies in south-east England could save half a billion pounds by 2035 if they shared supplies. Instead, the
companies were planning to saddle their customers with a bill of £760bn for unnecessary new reservoirs. Never mind a national grid, a Kent grid would
work wonders.
We also need household meters. Britain is almost alone in the industrialised world in not having universal water metering. Houses with meters use 15%
less water.
And we need recycling. Londoners routinely drink water from the Thames that is mostly cleaned-up sewage from upstream. But elsewhere much of our
effluent is pumped out to sea. The Environment Agency says "effluent should be valued as a resource for use by abstractors" – that is, for
water supply.
It can be expensive to clean sewage enough for drinking. That's why the best solution could be getting nature to help, by using rocks like chalk
to filter out the nasties. Winchester's sewage never did south Hampshire any harm.
Ninehigh - 28/4/12 at 06:17 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Benzine
everything's gone down the pan since ninehigh changed his Holly avatar tbh
Changed it back, let's see what happens
Benzine - 28/4/12 at 08:45 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Ninehigh
Changed it back, let's see what happens
adithorp - 28/4/12 at 08:56 AM
quote:
Originally posted by spiderman
Can't be the Elan valley reservoirs then, located in Wales, with the water ending up in Birmingham.
[Edited on 27/4/12 by spiderman]
Thats right... it can't be. There'll be a beer at Stoneleigh for the first correct answer.
David Jenkins - 28/4/12 at 10:51 AM
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Originally posted by splitrivet
Apperently its the wrong sort of rain though.
Cheers,
Bob
The rain is OK - but as it's Spring all the grass, crops, plants and trees are sucking it up as fast as it falls, and none is going down into the
aquifers...