Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Neil Gornall on April 29, 2012, 10:05:25 am
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Since they announced a hose pipe ban it has done nothing but rain.
Not great for us but good for the water companies.
Anyone know if its done much good? just wondering if the reservoirs have filled much.
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nope local one to me still half empty this rain is just a drop to what we need for
the lack of rain in the last three autumn and winters.
we need a wet summer and autumnn to return the water table to normal
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Apparently it's the 'wrong type of rain.' they must need dry rain or something. I just put it down to bad management of their resources
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Apparently it's the 'wrong type of rain.' they must need dry rain or something. I just put it down to bad management of their resources
thats the one, wrong rain, i said to my wife day before they announced it, that it would be the wrong rain,
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people are moaning a the moment about the amount of rain we are
having but this is the first time in ages that our weather patterns which traditionally
happened every year in this country have been correct.
if you think we have anywhere near normal levels of wet weather apart from the far
north and west you are sadly deluded.
to blame bad mismanagement which happens is a easy thing to say and is only
a part of the problem and it is easy to close your eyes to the fact that we really havent enough
rainfall in the last few years,over the last century we have able to rely on our climate
supply the water thats been needed and we have become complacent for me this is
where their has been mis management,we are an island afterall surely the infrastructure
for desalination could of been introduced over time but no! complacency
our climate is changing and no longer can we rely on the seasons and if we continue
to have these periods of flood and relatively long periods of dry weather in large parts
of britain without introducing technology such as desalination in the long term we
will end up in trouble
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Apparently it's the 'wrong type of rain.' they must need dry rain or something. I just put it down to bad management of their resources
thats the one, wrong rain, i said to my wife day before they announced it, that it would be the wrong rain,
i think they are refferring to the quick and heavy fall we are having over short periods of time
that either just runs off or drys up quickly as opposed to the steady type that goes on for hours
and sometimes days which allows the ground to soak the water up.
the drying effect i see myself its amazing how quickly the ground drys aftr a hour or
two of heavy rainfall.
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that new reservoir built in Essex must be filling up! Surely the water co's can't be letting all this water run out to sea >:(
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All fine here no hosepipe ban we don't draw water from rivers or reservoirs. Lucky
I was speaking to a customer who has a 80ft bore hole, they said the water table is high and never dropped that much.
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90% full in the 3 local one,says the locals
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mother nature has an ability to rebalance itself . which we are seeing at the moment the water table will be benefit from the constant down pour. and by the forecast its not due to stop. wettest april in a long long time .
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yep mother nature always rebalances itself doesnt mean iy will be necessarily to our
liking :)
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that new reservoir built in Essex must be filling up! Surely the water co's can't be letting all this water run out to sea >:(
We collect 12-15%
Spain and Portugal collect 75%, and have 90% less rainfall.
Do the math
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that new reservoir built in Essex must be filling up! Surely the water co's can't be letting all this water run out to sea >:(
We collect 12-15%
Spain and Portugal collect 75%, and have 90% less rainfall.
Do the math
dont they use desalination!
12-15% just shows the complacency i was on about in a previous post due to
the abudance of rain over the years.
spain have had to be more efficient over the years and we havent looks
like its time for change unfortunately that will need new infrastructure and guess
who will end up paying for that
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Our well ran dry in December - first time in 300 years.
Problem seems to be that the ground is extremely hard and the rain is running off into the rivers instead of soaking in. One unclassifed road near me used to have water running across it as the table was higher than the it was. It's now dropped about 20 feet below the road and all you can now see is a muddy bit.
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England= joke
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Got enough water to get by haven't you?
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'england=joke' what are you on about? we've had below average rainfall for the last 18 months so there is a water shortage- simple as that. if you'd rather live in a country where they have no democracy, or no minimum wage etc then go for it. we are extremely lucky to live in a country like england- we have absolutely nothing to worry about compared to most other parts of the world.
sorry to moan but i really hate the whole 'this countries not what it used to be' mentality- its completely misplaced
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There is too many people using the water.
A few liberals might think a bit harder about immigration if they can`t water their own garden.
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There is too many people using the water.
A few liberals might think a bit harder about immigration if they can`t water their own garden.
Immigration is causing the drought?
You should be writing for the Daily Mail.
Vin
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Irrigation is causing the drought.
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can they not take water from rivers before it gets to sea???
or is that a really thick question??? ???
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yep mother nature always rebalances itself doesnt mean iy will be necessarily to our
liking :)
def not to my liking. but the chances a water company taking the drought order to the next level is unlikely . which is a positive
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can they not take water from rivers before it gets to sea???
or is that a really thick question??? ???
They do that, but a licence to do it. As I understand it they need a licence to be able to extract water from a river, as do farmers and others who extract from rivers. They need to impose a hosepipe ban before they can apply to extract river water, by doing this although there is now a hosepipe ban the situation could be alleviated.
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can they not take water from rivers before it gets to sea???
or is that a really thick question??? ???
They do that, but a licence to do it. As I understand it they need a licence to be able to extract water from a river, as do farmers and others who extract from rivers. They need to impose a hosepipe ban before they can apply to extract river water, by doing this although there is now a hosepipe ban the situation could be alleviated.
Not always; some abstraction goes on all the time - Southampton drinks water out of the River Itchen.
Vin
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There is too many people using the water.
A few liberals might think a bit harder about immigration if they can`t water their own garden.
Immigration is causing the drought?
You should be writing for the Daily Mail.
Vin
I made two statements which i believe to be true but certainly did not suggest immigration is causing the drought.However a rise in population will increase demand for water from any individual reservoir leading to perceived shortage of water and drought measures to combat this.. Increase in population in certain areas is due to immigration.
As for suggesting i should be writing for the Daily Mail,well that`s most likely the hypocrisy of a bigot.
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There is too many people using the water.
A few liberals might think a bit harder about immigration if they can`t water their own garden.
Immigration is causing the drought?
You should be writing for the Daily Mail.
Vin
I made two statements which i believe to be true but certainly did not suggest immigration is causing the drought.However a rise in population will increase demand for water from any individual reservoir leading to perceived shortage of water and drought measures to combat this.. Increase in population in certain areas is due to immigration.
As for suggesting i should be writing for the Daily Mail,well that`s most likely the hypocrisy of a bigot.
I thought you were going to write that the immigrants brought their weather with them :) .
Personally, I think we should all blame this new fangled cloud technology. How can we get enough rain when all the clouds are needed to run the internet?
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There is too many people using the water.
A few liberals might think a bit harder about immigration if they can`t water their own garden.
Immigration is causing the drought?
You should be writing for the Daily Mail.
Vin
I made two statements which i believe to be true but certainly did not suggest immigration is causing the drought.However a rise in population will increase demand for water from any individual reservoir leading to perceived shortage of water and drought measures to combat this.. Increase in population in certain areas is due to immigration.
As for suggesting i should be writing for the Daily Mail,well that`s most likely the hypocrisy of a bigot.
You think I'm the bigot? You, the one who thinks people should "think harder" (surely a euphemism) about immigration as a cause of water shortages?
Interesting.
Vin.
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Immigration actually supplies water to areas that need it.
Or am I thinking of irrigation?
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can they not take water from rivers before it gets to sea???
or is that a really thick question??? ???
They do that, but a licence to do it. As I understand it they need a licence to be able to extract water from a river, as do farmers and others who extract from rivers. They need to impose a hosepipe ban before they can apply to extract river water, by doing this although there is now a hosepipe ban the situation could be alleviated.
they need bigger bore hose and more pumps working right now extracting for all they're worth. Rivers are now brimming
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unfortunately the rivers brimming will only last a couple of days
after the rain stops and return to previous low levels unless this existing weather
dgoes on for several more weeks giving the slow moving water capturing areas
of rivers time to rise
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Someone going fishing Gary ? ;D
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'england=joke' what are you on about? we've had below average rainfall for the last 18 months so there is a water shortage- simple as that. if you'd rather live in a country where they have no democracy, or no minimum wage etc then go for it. we are extremely lucky to live in a country like england- we have absolutely nothing to worry about compared to most other parts of the world.
sorry to moan but i really hate the whole 'this countries not what it used to be' mentality- its completely misplaced
our country sucks right now, if you really can't see the problems that have and are unfolding, (I am not paid for this plug) you need to go to specsavers
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Someone going fishing Gary ? ;D
i would love to froggy its ideal now or will be soon for barbel they will be hard on the feed
unfortunately the bloody rivers are shut till june :'(
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Someone going fishing Gary ? ;D
i would love to froggy its ideal now or will be soon for barbel they will be hard on the feed
unfortunately the bloody rivers are shut till june :'(
all the fish will be gone all the truck imported people are fishing :-X
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TROUBLE IS ALL THIS WATER WILL BE SHOT AWAY TO SEA. it should be held on flood plains but as we build on flood plains we get rid of it as quick as possible. how daft does it get, and we pay people to do this. sack em all. put real people in charge not kids with worthless degrees.
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can they not take water from rivers before it gets to sea???
or is that a really thick question??? ???
Bristol Water(or it's forerunners) did just that. There is a canal between Sharpness and Gloucester which is fed by the river Severn. (Which of course is fed largely by the rainfall on the mountains of Mid Wales)
So about a hundred years ago (approx) Bristol Water paid for and continues to maintain feed from the Sharpness Canal into Bristol - a distance of about twenty five miles. It also has reservoirs at Chew Valley and Cheddar.
Birmingham also did well about a hundred years ago in building the Elan valley reservoirs in Mid Wales and pipes water by gravity 73 miles to Birmingham.
It's a shame that Victorian and Edwardian foresight and municipal building isn't done now.
Lecture over! ;D
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spent the afternoon today at ardingly resevoir, and its looking a lot better, its almost 2 thirds full now, as opposed to below half abrout 2 weeks ago. noticed though they have been pumping a lot of water in from a bore hole recently, this rain might just keep us all in buisiness a bit longer :)
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There was something on the telly last week that I thought was very revealing
By imposing the hose ban they hope to reduce usage by 5%, yet they lose 16% due to leaks.
Last year they paid out billions to shareholders, while failing to invest in fixing the leaks. In many cases they turn down the pressure instead.
We will all be on meters within a few years I guarantee it
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spent the afternoon today at ardingly resevoir, and its looking a lot better, its almost 2 thirds full now, as opposed to below half abrout 2 weeks ago. noticed though they have been pumping a lot of water in from a bore hole recently, this rain might just keep us all in buisiness a bit longer :)
Its being filled from the Medway.
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I was talking to a guy yesterday who works for Anglian water. He said the surface reservoirs are filling nicely but the problem here is the underground ones.
The water table and aquifers are still very low as the water is not getting down to them yet as the ground is still hard (below a certain level)
As for the statement about immigration being part of the problem. Its true.
More and more people are coming to live here and they are a drain on already strained resources. To say otherwise is to ignore the facts. Even the water companies themseves say so.
This is from Anglian waters website.
Over the last 18 months the East of England has seen the lowest rainfall in living memory. Our rivers, reservoirs and groundwater levels are exceptionally low.
Fewer raindrops are falling and more people are arriving every day. That means there’s growing pressure on our precious water resources.
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As for the statement about immigration being part of the problem. Its true.
I agree.
There has also been a massive lack of investment (by the water companies and successive governments) over the past 30 years.
Add the two above together and we get to where we are now, with huge amounts of perfectly good water falling and not being collected and huge parts of the country being hit by hosepipe bans and a threat of drought orders.