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[gallego1968]

Since they have brought in the hosepipe ban it hasn't stopped raining.

[Paul007]

gallego1968, on 19 April 2012 - 19:25, said:

Since they have brought in the hosepipe ban it hasn't stopped raining.

+1 and it's doing it again..except we're not included up here. What a pity.

[bluevrs2]

The local reservoirs are overflowing here, so I dont think we will have a 76 ban up here. Too many houses built on land used for reservoirs  is the main problem down south,although one of the two in our village has also been built on , but also we use a lot more per person , compared to countries which have a hot climate.

[SnailUK]

My local council has just reduced the price of water butts, and equipment like that.

If all the gardeners stopped wasting tap water on their gardens, and whereever possible used stored rain water, we'd have less of a problem.

I'll be using stored rain water as much as possible in car cleaning during the hosepipe ban, to the point i'm considering getting a second water butt, as my existing large one gets full really quickly.

That, and its not unusual for me to wash my car in the rain. Another way of saving water.

[richie]

I didn't drive on the motorway yesterday, it was more like sailing in a speed boat!!

[MartynVRS]

Storing water for garden use is easy enough. Get a water butt and you can even put nutrients in it to help the plants.

[richie]

Reading my local paper yesterday. Southern Water are spending millions..................... on an "emergencey reservoir" in the Aylesford area!! Bit frigging late   All the rain in Kent at the moment would fill the fecking thing.........

[moley]

richie, on 29 April 2012 - 08:38, said:

Reading my local paper yesterday. Southern Water are spending millions..................... on an "emergencey reservoir" in the Aylesford area!! Bit frigging late   All the rain in Kent at the moment would fill the fecking thing.........

All of the excess rain that is flooding the land and swelling the rivers will just flow out the sea. The water companies don't want to invest to solve the problem.
We need a national water company with the ablity to move water around the country and fix the leaks.
By the way your location should read Dunsfold Park and not Dusfold. I should know as it's just up the road from where I live.

[richie]

moley, on 29 April 2012 - 08:55, said:

All of the excess rain that is flooding the land and swelling the rivers will just flow out the sea. The water companies don't want to invest to solve the problem.
We need a national water company with the ablity to move water around the country and fix the leaks.
By the way your location should read Dunsfold Park and not Dusfold. I should know as it's just up the road from where I live.

Noted, thanks. Time for a change.

[VWD]

Anyone see a comedy clip the other day on how much drought problems we've all had .On bloke was complaining of a 6" drought problem, another of 12" . I had a look at the river flowing through a local park and decide that in this park we've got an 18" drought problem. ( For those not seeing the joke .18" drought = river 18" higher than normal) .

So what drought problems are we seeing ,nationally ?

[DGW]

Good news at last on BBC News.  Anglian Water, Southern Water and Thames Water are to officially announce today (Wednesday) that their hosepipe bans will end on tomorrow.  

In the case of Southern Water, the lifting of restrictions applies to Kent and Sussex.

[sk4gw]

They will not have been doing anything to fix the Leaks and wastage over the past 8 weeks,
& the Millions of damage and heart ache caused by flooding to get to this stage seems like the lifting of a hosepipe ban is not much of a victory.

Sadly much more rain forecast in the near future but if you have a few dry winters you will be right back where you were this year and by then people might be back into their homes after this flooding.

This government should forget stupid Olympic Openings with false clouds & just cut a ribbon,
(bus people to the countryside if they do not know what it looks like!!)
put the 27 million that Danny Boyle is spending into Emergency help for people now.

ASAP they need to start spending on Infrastructure, Water Storage & treatment & proper drainage and anti-flood measures.
Hire Navvies & that will help with the un-employment problem.

george

Edited by sk4gw, 13 June 2012 - 06:20.

[alkip]

Danny Boyle opening ceremony, WTF?!?!?

As for hiring navvies, why not get chain gangs of prisoners to do the work for free?  I don't care if it infringes their human rights as they weren't concerned about human rights of others when they committed their crime.

[sk4gw]

Irony,
my Danny Boyle reference is an attempt at the 'Irony' of a "Green and pleasant Land", & 'False Clouds'.
http://www.channel4....pening-ceremony

Dry and parched farm land in some parts and flooded in others, they just needed to show a film of the Swimming pool & the long jump pit
to show what much of the south of the uk is like.

george

Edited by sk4gw, 13 June 2012 - 09:37.

[Lazy Daisy]

Hear that Richie, you can soak yourself for that tight wet T shirt look again

[superbfan]

I think I can see a solution here based on the previous three or four posts.

Once the olympics are over fit each of the new venues with large (very large!) pond liners

Then line up all the prisoners in to long (very long!) chain gangs

Then pass buckets of water along the chain gangs from the reservoirs and lochs up north to the drought stricken overpopulated areas in the south.

[richie]

Hmmmm, still not allowed to use the hose pipe!! My mains water is supplied by South East water who are keeping the ban in place!! I wouldn't be supprised if people start defying the ban before to long.