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Re: Drought
Have you got a place for a stand pipe at your gaff?Bin Ont Turf wrote: ↑Thu Jul 14, 2022 9:09 pmIf you've never been without water and had to fill a bucket up from the water tank the council left (1983?), then you've never lived.
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BurnleyPaul
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Rowls
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Re: Drought
It's not been dry enough for me to mow the lawn but good news for the reservoirs recently.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/environ ... 71667.html
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/environ ... 71667.html
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Rowls
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Re: Drought
So you can afford to giggle at this kind of silliness...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64966953
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64966953
Re: Drought
Partner just gone to Spain. (Catalunya) and drought....water restrictions.
Just had Winter!!!!
Just had Winter!!!!
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Colburn_Claret
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Re: Drought
I was down Coventry/Oxford way last week, and lots of fields seemed flooded. I think there has been a lot more rain down South, than there has up here
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dougcollins
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Re: Drought
The issue isn't how much rain we get (loads) but how much we collect and process (not enough).
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Silkyskills1
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Re: Drought
Lazy, greedy water companies losing millions of litres a day through archaic infrastructure. No new reservoirs built in God knows how many years and population increasing annually. Little wonder water is a main issue facing the country now.
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They have shut lots of reservoirs that were used for drinking water so they don’t have to maintain them, cost cutting. That’s the main reason we have trouble. Few years ago they had a diesel pump pumping water from an old unused res into Cowpe res so it could be used as drinking water.Silkyskills1 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 02, 2023 3:23 pmLazy, greedy water companies losing millions of litres a day through archaic infrastructure. No new reservoirs built in God knows how many years and population increasing annually. Little wonder water is a main issue facing the country now.
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NottsClaret
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Re: Drought
Noticeable driving over the Woodhead recently, every reservoir is full to the brim.
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Re: Drought
Been a very wet March in my bit of southern England. My little garden pond had completely dried out through Jan/first half of Feb but is full to the brim now. The frogs are very happy about that having had somewhere to frolic and deposit spawn.