How do we get droughts?
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Yep, Ethnic Cleansing for the win.
I vote that anyone with a Burberry Baseball Cap.....
I vote that anyone with a Burberry Baseball Cap.....
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Crestfallen said:
Maybe that'll drop the house prices in the South of England then...
All that needs done is for the government to throw cash at the water companies to fix up their ancient network. Who privitised the water systems anyway? Mad ******* whoever it was.
Come on, private companies aint gonna spend billions when it rained enough for them not to have to bother. Now its potentially too late.
It always amazes me that when it comes to water, housing, heating and energy the press and media as well as the UK public go up in arms when prices need to rise but seem to feel it is their right to spend limitless amounts on debt payments, beer and fags etc.
Basics first whatever the cost and then the other after.
It always amazes me that when it comes to water, housing, heating and energy the press and media as well as the UK public go up in arms when prices need to rise but seem to feel it is their right to spend limitless amounts on debt payments, beer and fags etc.
Basics first whatever the cost and then the other after.
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HELLO ALL !! TO ANSWER GILLYS QUESTION !!
(iv not read everything in between so it may have been said)
If ya read latest new scientist it basically explains the global water shortage problem, UK included.
I also know this info from my degree course
In short were pumping out water from the water table WAY FASTER than it can be replaced, even if it was to rain 365 days a year non stop heavy rain, it still couldnt be replaced quick enough at the rate were pumping it out.
Yes we can desalinate sea water, process lake water etc etc, but that would mean we would end up paying 100x the amount (£) for our water, the world within our life times (when were old i hope) will have a massive famine, and millions will die of starvation, and I suspect millions will die in the UK (YES AN 'advanced' COUNTRY) the amount of drinking water isnt the problem, the amount it takes to water crops and feed everyone is...........when the water problems hit, UK is stuffed as we import all out food, the people we get it off will simply stop sending as they will need what they have managed to grow for themselves..............every inch of spare land in the UK i imagine will be converted for growing food, and that space isnt enough for everyone
(iv not read everything in between so it may have been said)
If ya read latest new scientist it basically explains the global water shortage problem, UK included.
I also know this info from my degree course
In short were pumping out water from the water table WAY FASTER than it can be replaced, even if it was to rain 365 days a year non stop heavy rain, it still couldnt be replaced quick enough at the rate were pumping it out.
Yes we can desalinate sea water, process lake water etc etc, but that would mean we would end up paying 100x the amount (£) for our water, the world within our life times (when were old i hope) will have a massive famine, and millions will die of starvation, and I suspect millions will die in the UK (YES AN 'advanced' COUNTRY) the amount of drinking water isnt the problem, the amount it takes to water crops and feed everyone is...........when the water problems hit, UK is stuffed as we import all out food, the people we get it off will simply stop sending as they will need what they have managed to grow for themselves..............every inch of spare land in the UK i imagine will be converted for growing food, and that space isnt enough for everyone
cheets64 said:I say we northerners charge the south folk, its starting to rain right now and it was snowing yesterday, this is somthing worth living up north for.
Bah we'll just sell up down here and send the prices of your properties sky high, might even buy a couple of places up there and rent em out to Northerners.
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We also have the "Not in my back yard" mentality in this country which has in recent years repeatedly stopped the construction of new reserviors, not that they would help a great deal with the way things are, but worth mentioning none the less.
Gilly said: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
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.
Manchesters been pretty dry over the past couple of weeks
cheets64 said:I say we northerners charge the south folk, its starting to rain right now and it was snowing yesterday, this is somthing worth living up north for.
Go up to Rivington and look at the resevoirs, we haven't got anything to sell them..