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Title: Here we go again, I predict a national hosepipe ban and drastic rise in bills.
Post by: Grumpmeister on July 26, 2022, 05:08:47 AM
This is something that successive governments have all failed to deal with. We should have had a series of desalinisation and water treatment plants and vastly expanded storage as well as a cohesive national water grid built by now to deal with situations like this. We live on a bloody island, there is no excuse for a complete failure to deal with this issue. Hell if Ghana can afford to construct a major water desalinisation and treatment plant when the UK should certainly have been able to. Banghead

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11047957/Lib-Dems-call-urgent-action-fix-leaking-pipes-avert-worst-drought-1976.html
Title: Re: Here we go again, I predict a national hosepipe ban and drastic rise in bills.
Post by: Barman on July 26, 2022, 05:27:45 AM
Quote from: Grumpmeister on July 26, 2022, 05:08:47 AM
This is something that successive governments have all failed to deal with. We should have had a series of desalinisation and water treatment plants and vastly expanded storage as well as a cohesive national water grid built by now to deal with situations like this. We live on a bloody island, there is no excuse for a complete failure to deal with this issue. Hell if Ghana can afford to construct a major water desalinisation and treatment plant when the UK should certainly have been able to. Banghead

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11047957/Lib-Dems-call-urgent-action-fix-leaking-pipes-avert-worst-drought-1976.html

Yes, I lived in Surry and was surrounded by Reservoirs but It must have been way back in the late 60s when the last one was built (Wraysbury reservoir)...

Lots of NIMBY issues with building them...  noooo:

EDIT: Queen Mother Reservoir was completed later in 1976...
Title: Re: Here we go again, I predict a national hosepipe ban and drastic rise in bills.
Post by: The Moan Ranger on July 26, 2022, 06:05:05 AM
Quote from: Barman on July 26, 2022, 05:27:45 AM
Quote from: Grumpmeister on July 26, 2022, 05:08:47 AM
This is something that successive governments have all failed to deal with. We should have had a series of desalinisation and water treatment plants and vastly expanded storage as well as a cohesive national water grid built by now to deal with situations like this. We live on a bloody island, there is no excuse for a complete failure to deal with this issue. Hell if Ghana can afford to construct a major water desalinisation and treatment plant when the UK should certainly have been able to. Banghead

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11047957/Lib-Dems-call-urgent-action-fix-leaking-pipes-avert-worst-drought-1976.html

Yes, I lived in Surry and was surrounded by Reservoirs but It must have been way back in the late 60s when the last one was built (Wraysbury reservoir)...

Lots of NIMBY issues with building them...  noooo:

EDIT: Queen Mother Reservoir was completed later in 1976...

Surrey, not Surry. An unforgiveable typo. I hope.  noooo:
Title: Re: Here we go again, I predict a national hosepipe ban and drastic rise in bills.
Post by: Barman on July 26, 2022, 06:36:18 AM
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on July 26, 2022, 06:05:05 AM
Quote from: Barman on July 26, 2022, 05:27:45 AM
Quote from: Grumpmeister on July 26, 2022, 05:08:47 AM
This is something that successive governments have all failed to deal with. We should have had a series of desalinisation and water treatment plants and vastly expanded storage as well as a cohesive national water grid built by now to deal with situations like this. We live on a bloody island, there is no excuse for a complete failure to deal with this issue. Hell if Ghana can afford to construct a major water desalinisation and treatment plant when the UK should certainly have been able to. Banghead

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11047957/Lib-Dems-call-urgent-action-fix-leaking-pipes-avert-worst-drought-1976.html

Yes, I lived in Surrey and was surrounded by Reservoirs but It must have been way back in the late 60s when the last one was built (Wraysbury reservoir)...

Lots of NIMBY issues with building them...  noooo:

EDIT: Queen Mother Reservoir was completed later in 1976...

Surrey, not Surry. An unforgiveable typo. I hope.  noooo:

Ooops!  eeek:

Of course, it was Middlesex when I lived there!
Title: Re: Here we go again, I predict a national hosepipe ban and drastic rise in bills.
Post by: apc2010 on July 26, 2022, 10:34:43 PM
Quote from: Barman on July 26, 2022, 06:36:18 AM
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on July 26, 2022, 06:05:05 AM
Quote from: Barman on July 26, 2022, 05:27:45 AM
Quote from: Grumpmeister on July 26, 2022, 05:08:47 AM
This is something that successive governments have all failed to deal with. We should have had a series of desalinisation and water treatment plants and vastly expanded storage as well as a cohesive national water grid built by now to deal with situations like this. We live on a bloody island, there is no excuse for a complete failure to deal with this issue. Hell if Ghana can afford to construct a major water desalinisation and treatment plant when the UK should certainly have been able to. Banghead

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11047957/Lib-Dems-call-urgent-action-fix-leaking-pipes-avert-worst-drought-1976.html

Yes, I lived in Surrey and was surrounded by Reservoirs but It must have been way back in the late 60s when the last one was built (Wraysbury reservoir)...

Lots of NIMBY issues with building them...  noooo:

EDIT: Queen Mother Reservoir was completed later in 1976...

Surrey, not Surry. An unforgiveable typo. I hope.  noooo:

Ooops!  eeek:

Of course, it was Middlesex when I lived there!

Typing in a hurrey.... rubschin:
Title: Re: Here we go again, I predict a national hosepipe ban and drastic rise in bills.
Post by: Barman on July 27, 2022, 04:35:34 AM
Quote from: apc2010 on July 26, 2022, 10:34:43 PM
Quote from: Barman on July 26, 2022, 06:36:18 AM
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on July 26, 2022, 06:05:05 AM
Quote from: Barman on July 26, 2022, 05:27:45 AM
Quote from: Grumpmeister on July 26, 2022, 05:08:47 AM
This is something that successive governments have all failed to deal with. We should have had a series of desalinisation and water treatment plants and vastly expanded storage as well as a cohesive national water grid built by now to deal with situations like this. We live on a bloody island, there is no excuse for a complete failure to deal with this issue. Hell if Ghana can afford to construct a major water desalinisation and treatment plant when the UK should certainly have been able to. Banghead

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11047957/Lib-Dems-call-urgent-action-fix-leaking-pipes-avert-worst-drought-1976.html

Yes, I lived in Surrey and was surrounded by Reservoirs but It must have been way back in the late 60s when the last one was built (Wraysbury reservoir)...

Lots of NIMBY issues with building them...  noooo:

EDIT: Queen Mother Reservoir was completed later in 1976...

Surrey, not Surry. An unforgiveable typo. I hope.  noooo:

Ooops!  eeek:

Of course, it was Middlesex when I lived there!

Typing in a hurrey.... rubschin:

 drumroll:
Title: Re: Here we go again, I predict a national hosepipe ban and drastic rise in bills.
Post by: Grumpmeister on August 09, 2022, 03:28:13 PM
Well bugger me, someone actually did build a desalination plant. Unfortunately they've just closed it as it's too expensive to run  Banghead

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11086901/Thames-Water-emergency-drought-plant-SHUT-costs-run-electricity.html
Title: Re: Here we go again, I predict a national hosepipe ban and drastic rise in bills.
Post by: Barman on August 09, 2022, 04:05:36 PM
Quote from: Grumpmeister on August 09, 2022, 03:28:13 PM
Well bugger me, someone actually did build a desalination plant. Unfortunately they've just closed it as it's too expensive to run  Banghead

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11086901/Thames-Water-emergency-drought-plant-SHUT-costs-run-electricity.html

I know...  noooo:
Title: Re: Here we go again, I predict a national hosepipe ban and drastic rise in bills.
Post by: Steve on August 09, 2022, 04:57:59 PM
Quote from: Barman on August 09, 2022, 04:05:36 PM
Quote from: Grumpmeister on August 09, 2022, 03:28:13 PM
Well bugger me, someone actually did build a desalination plant. Unfortunately they've just closed it as it's too expensive to run  Banghead

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11086901/Thames-Water-emergency-drought-plant-SHUT-costs-run-electricity.html

I know...  noooo:
That's the problem.  We have had decades of cheap potable water literally falling from the sky and so many Brits expect that to continue while still wanting more houses in the technically arid South East and of course denying that (for whatever reason) the climate has changed.

England:  434 people per km2
 
Cyprus: 123 people per km2

Well the party is quite possibly as over as the cheap gas party already is.
Title: Re: Here we go again, I predict a national hosepipe ban and drastic rise in bills.
Post by: Nick on August 09, 2022, 06:44:39 PM
Hosepipe bans are normally a precursor to torrential rain and forecasters putting up big yellow triangles warning us about how we are all going to die in floods!
Title: Re: Here we go again, I predict a national hosepipe ban and drastic rise in bills.
Post by: Just One More on August 09, 2022, 07:37:38 PM
Quote from: Nick on August 09, 2022, 06:44:39 PM
Hosepipe bans are normally a precursor to torrential rain and forecasters putting up big yellow triangles warning us about how we are all going to die in floods!

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Title: Re: Here we go again, I predict a national hosepipe ban and drastic rise in bills.
Post by: Nick on August 09, 2022, 07:43:18 PM
https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/20294254.look-back-minister-drought-denis-howell-visits-bradford-summer-1976/ (https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/20294254.look-back-minister-drought-denis-howell-visits-bradford-summer-1976/)

 rubschin:
Title: Re: Here we go again, I predict a national hosepipe ban and drastic rise in bills.
Post by: Steve on August 09, 2022, 09:22:21 PM

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Title: Re: Here we go again, I predict a national hosepipe ban and drastic rise in bills.
Post by: Uncle Mort on August 10, 2022, 07:48:51 AM
 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Here we go again, I predict a national hosepipe ban and drastic rise in bills.
Post by: Miss Demeanour on August 10, 2022, 06:15:05 PM
First lot of substantial rain = flooding  as the tough ol ground will not be willing to accept penetration  lol:

We should all live in paddling pools  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Here we go again, I predict a national hosepipe ban and drastic rise in bills.
Post by: Grumpmeister on August 10, 2022, 09:47:10 PM
Quote from: Miss Demeanour on August 10, 2022, 06:15:05 PM
First lot of substantial rain = flooding  as the tough ol ground will not be willing to accept penetration  lol:

We should all live in paddling pools  :thumbsup:

Simple solution that may appeal to you Miss D. The next time someone winds you up for whatever reason, if they are smaller then you are then pick them up and use their head to break the ground up to allow the water to penetrate. Environmental action and stress relief in one.  eveilgrin: