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3 months ago

Is a Water Drought in the UK justified ?

In a country like Britain , the water companies are already saying that unless we have a couple of months of heavy rain we will be facing the worst water shortage since 1976 .
Do you find this a justified comment or simply laughable in a country as wet as ours ?
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susan158

  2 months ago
I have just seen on the news , the Environment Agency warning of a serious water shortage , , in much of England and Wales unless we get significant rain fall , in the next few months . They say that most reservoirs are really low and we could be looking at a water shortage this year and in some areas and a hose pipe band .
There is no doubt the south of the country does not get as much rain fall as the north .
I remember one year water tankers taking water from the north of England to the south .
Where I live in the North East of England we have never had any problems . Take care
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Mollygirl

  3 months ago
You just don't watch the news, do you? The RIVERS ARE RUNNING DRY, FISH AND BIRDS AND TREES ARE DYING. It's real.
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arrietypod

  3 months ago
The south east has now officially been declared a drought area following two very dry winters. Apparently, it's the ground water that is running short, so we need a srious amount of rain to fill up the aquifers.
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emmacooper1982

  3 months ago
I don't know but I think we have had a lot less water in the last few months than normal
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Rappide

  3 months ago
I think a lot of it comes down to management. It probably is the case that there hasn't been enough rainfall in certain parts of the country, the population has grown etc so why hasn't there been investment in more dams?
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DISKIN31

  3 months ago
I suppose it depends on which part of the country, as I read on another website, you don't have to have a heat wave, lots of sunshine and no rain to have a water drought. Can simply be lots of dull cloudy days and no rain and the effects are still the same. Having said that it is rather a poor excuse in the current technically advanced era we are in. Surely more can be done, such as build more water storage facilities, encourage more people to conserve rain water, or even transport water from an area of the UK which has plenty of water. For example I live in the South West, although we are not the highest earners in the country (actually one of the lowest) our water bills are the highest, higher than London, the rest of the South East, etc. Our water company could reduce our bills and sell some of their surplus water to the water companies in the South East, okay may mean higher water bills in the South East, but if they have the highest house prices, etc in the country, highest average earnings, etc then they should have the highest water bills.
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drimell

  3 months ago
I think under normal circumstances you would be right. Unfortunately our weather does not appear to be the same as it was 20, 30 or 50 etc years ago. we are not getting the snowfall we had years ago and you need several inches of rain to equate to one inch of rainfall. Then we seem to get warm spring followed by wet summers and warm autumns. So although it seems we have a 'wet' country, its not as wet as it seems. The pictures they showed on the news did show resrvoirs only half full, so I think no matter how laughable it seems the water companies appear to be right.
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dangermousedeb

  3 months ago
The short answer is no. If the water companies spent some of the hundreds of millions of pounds of profit that they make per annum in replacingcurrent pipework with up to date pipework there would be sufficient for all. There would be much less waste through leakage. Not only that but the pipework could then cope with the retention of surface water, adding to that collected for purificatation and use.
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dyche45

  3 months ago
Not just East or South East, take a look at the North West! Hopefully this will raise the issues again of how we conserve water. Surely, as in the thirties, this would be a perfect situation for a huge public infrastructure building programme? The pipe from Thirlmere was one such investment, as Keilder and Bala. Some serious investment needed.
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thereiver

  3 months ago
the areas where this is happening have one thing in common huge numbers several hundred thousand in fact of immigrants, this amounts to millions of gallons of water , remove the immigrants and the problem disappears as well
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