[simon sturmey]

can they not take water from rivers before it gets to sea???
or is that a really thick question??? 

[keyser soze]

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

[H S and Son]

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.

[Perfect Windows]

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

[Nameless Drudge]

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.

[Paul Coleman]

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?

[Perfect Windows]

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.

[G Griffin]

Immigration actually supplies water to areas that need it.
Or am I thinking of irrigation?

[Tomboler]

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

[gary999]

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

[Blue Frog Systems]

Someone going fishing Gary ?

[Window Washers]

'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

[gary999]

Someone going fishing Gary ?

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

[Window Washers]

Someone going fishing Gary ?

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

[trevor summerfield]

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.

[AuRavelling79]

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! 

[john stracey]

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

[H2GoKent]

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

[H S and Son]

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.

[Neil Gornall]

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.