How do we get droughts?

Gilly · 24 Feb 2006 at 22:04

We're being told by the Met office that we should steel ourselves for the worst drought in decades.

We're an island and we get a lot of rainfall. If you don't believe me go to Manchester. We have springs, rivers, streams, lakes, a solid (or liquid

) water table beneath us.

What exactly is going on when we're told we should be ready for the hosepipe bans again? Does anyone else feel it makes a bit of a mockery of our water system?

I'm hoping we have someone here with a vast knowledge on the subject, I've never been let down before.

Gilly · 24 Feb 2006 at 22:06

Balderdash!

Everyone knows all Smirnoff is imported from Soviet Russia, and in Soviet Russia Smirnoff Ice drinks you.

Gilly · 24 Feb 2006 at 22:12

Thanks for that

Gilly · 24 Feb 2006 at 22:27

Something else the French have screwed up. Big surprise

So its lack of foresight/investment in our water infrastructure that is at the heart of the problem? Glad to hear Thames Water is doing something about it, I hope the other water boards are following suit.