MILLIONS face water rationing!!!!!!

Teki187 · 6 Mar 2008 at 06:51

MILLIONS face water rationing and soaring bills as experts warned that Britain is heading for a drought crisis.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/37140/Water-ration-Britain-Threat

This has to be a wind up, surely.....i mean didnt we just have the wettest summer last year on record?

Come on...

Zip · 6 Mar 2008 at 06:56

Dont worry its not too bad.

We have had it for a few years now.

You will given days when certain house numbers can water there gardens and others cant.
Some states wont let you wash your car.
Some states dont let you water your garden at all.

Its really not that bad TBH, Pluss you live in the UK where everything is green anyway

The people that get hit by it the most is the farmers that cant give enough water to there stock and cant water there crops as much as they need

Jimmeh · 6 Mar 2008 at 07:00

Zip said:
Dont worry its not too bad.

We have had it for a few years now.

You will given days when certain house numbers can water there gardens and others cant.
Some states wont let you wash your car.
Some states dont let you water your garden at all.

Its really not that bad TBH, Pluss you live in the UK where everything is green anyway

The people that get hit by it the most is the farmers that cant give enough water to there stock and cant water there crops as much as they need

Yes, but we live in a developed country

Zip · 6 Mar 2008 at 07:05

Jimmeh said:
Yes, but we live in a developed country

With an Ancient water System that leaks so much that even the UK, a place that gets much more rain in month then many many countrys around the globe get in there entire winter season and are still about to have a drought

Jimmeh · 6 Mar 2008 at 07:09

Zip said:
With an Ancient water System that leaks so much that even the UK, a place that gets much more rain in month then many many countrys around the globe get in there entire winter season and are still about to have a drought

Which is why we're a bit perturbed as to why there are already reports of a need to ration our use of water during the summer.

In all seriousness, this is quite ludicrous if not surprising.

NickK · 6 Mar 2008 at 07:32

Just put a brick in your cistern to reduce the amount of water used..

I agree it's stupid that privatisation of the water companies has led to a conflict in interests as they sell the story that they can't fix things without yet more money.
Their companies are bleeding as much money to investors as they do water out of their pipes..

Docaroo · 6 Mar 2008 at 07:40

well in Scotland we aren't worried... we have plenty!!

maybe we can sell you some!

Sankari · 6 Mar 2008 at 07:59

Water rationing is no big deal. We have it every year in Australia.

Just common sense, really.

Azza · 6 Mar 2008 at 08:00

Im not in England so it wont affect me.

Trojan · 6 Mar 2008 at 08:02

Evangelion said:
Water rationing is no big deal. We have it every year in Australia.

In Australia, you don't have anywhere near the amount of rain that we get in Britain though. How we can have the wettest summer since records began, then follow that up with a possible drought is beyond me.

Brownpants · 6 Mar 2008 at 08:04

If you have a garden, then you have room for a barrel to store rain water. Why you would waste nice clean treated tap water on your garden is beyond me.

Wicksta · 6 Mar 2008 at 08:05

We had a hosepipe ban for most of 2006, it was most annoying.

Bar · 6 Mar 2008 at 08:09

its very simple - we are crap at water management.

It is going to be more important than anything else and yet we lose so much clean fresh water through leaking pipes as to be untrue.

Trojan · 6 Mar 2008 at 08:14

Bar said:
It is going to be more important than anything else and yet we lose so much clean fresh water through leaking pipes as to be untrue.

According to the link in the OP:

The industry has greatly improved its record on reducing leaks but still loses 752 million gallons a day from its pipes, according to the latest figures.

That, to me, is a frankly staggering amount. That equates to a loss of over 5 BILLION gallons every week! Madness.

Brownpants · 6 Mar 2008 at 08:15

I'm currently working on a distribution system supplying ~3 million people. The estimated leakage figures are approximately 90%!

In the UK, figures vary wildly depending on the area, 5% up to 60%+ in areas of London.

Sparky__H · 6 Mar 2008 at 08:16

Article looks like scaremongering to me.

Naffa · 6 Mar 2008 at 08:25

Cor, I never knew the figures of wastage prior to this thread. Five billion gallons of waste per week? That's quite frankly disgraceful. It's times like these when I would really prefer to have nationalised main industry, but still, that SHOULD be enough to encourage them to fix it. I assume that the companies are losing a lot of money through these leaks?

do_ron_ron · 6 Mar 2008 at 08:45

Teki187 said:
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/37140/Water-ration-Britain-Threat

This has to be a wind up, surely.....i mean didnt we just have the wettest summer last year on record?

Come on...

Its only from the Depress, a paper that seems to have cornered the market in doom and gloom reporting.

Zip · 6 Mar 2008 at 08:47

Evangelion said:
Water rationing is no big deal. We have it every year in Australia.

Just common sense, really.

Your Profile confuses me a bit.

Do you live travel between Australia and the UK a lot?

Or have you shifted to the UK from Australia?

TheMightyTen · 6 Mar 2008 at 08:47

They should have started building the National Water Grid when they mooted the idea after the 1976 drought. Some parts of the country have more than enough water others the opposite, in a 'developed' country that just isn't right.

MILLIONS face water rationing!!!!!!

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