A dry winter will easilly do that. In the summer, a lot of rainfaill is evaporated- it is the winter rain that is critical to overall water reserves. And parts of the UK are not as wet as you think. SE england gets less rainfall than many parts of the Med. Parts of Eats Anglia average 300mm a year, 200 mm a year is considered a desert! Londnon, gets half the rainfall of a place like san Francisco.
MILLIONS face water rationing!!!!!!
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A dry winter will easilly do that. In the summer, a lot of rainfaill is evaporated- it is the winter rain that is critical to overall water reserves. And parts of the UK are not as wet as you think. SE england gets less rainfall than many parts of the Med. Parts of Eats Anglia average 300mm a year, 200 mm a year is considered a desert! Londnon, gets half the rainfall of a place like san Francisco.
It is rather odd, but not impossible.
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?
The latter. Moved to the UK four years ago; going back home in January 2009, with my English wife.
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drought? we live on a bloody island where people always complaining of "its raining again!" How could there be drought??????? They should built more reservoir and fix all those leaky pipes !
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Using a figure of 150 litres per person per day and a fairly conservative estimate for industry, i came up with a figure of an average 26% unaccounted for water (not the same as leakage) with those statistics.
Assuming illegal connections etc bring that figure down a touch, then that is a much lower percentage than i would have imagined. London will definately be dragging that percentage up a lot.
It's easy with water consumption to produce a lot of really big sensationalist numbers like BILLIONS and TRILLIONS.
Assuming illegal connections etc bring that figure down a touch, then that is a much lower percentage than i would have imagined. London will definately be dragging that percentage up a lot.
It's easy with water consumption to produce a lot of really big sensationalist numbers like BILLIONS and TRILLIONS.
No it doesnt work like that.
With water restrictions the cost of water sky rockets and you have a Limit to how much you can use before you get screwed for going over it and having to pay a **** load for using too much water.
Just like in the days of non Unlimited Broadband Internet
Why dont you lot just start putting in some rain water tanks
true, the amount you get from just one down pipe from guttering is ridiculous.
The mountains surrounding Vegas get a fair amount of winter rain and snow, and summer thunderstorms. They have a very well engineered irrigation system that traps lots of water and runs it to the city.
Exactly, it's nothing about the lack of water it's their inability to store and distribute it!
We should have two water supplies into a house:-
1. Clean drinking water
2. Everything else.
why on earth do we need to bath or water the garden with drinking water!
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MILLIONS face water rationing and soaring bills as experts warned that Britain is heading for a drought crisis.
why do they say britain when its just southern england? the rest of the country is fine
why do they say britain when its just southern england? the rest of the country is fine