Here we go again, I predict a national hosepipe ban and drastic rise in bills.

[Grumpmeister]

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.

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

[Barman]

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.

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... 

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

[The Moan Ranger]

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.

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... 

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

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

[Barman]

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.

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... 

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

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

Ooops! 

Of course, it was Middlesex when I lived there!

[apc2010]

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.

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... 

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

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

Ooops! 

Of course, it was Middlesex when I lived there!

Typing in a hurrey....

[Barman]

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.

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... 

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

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

Ooops! 

Of course, it was Middlesex when I lived there!

Typing in a hurrey....

 

[Grumpmeister]

Well bugger me, someone actually did build a desalination plant. Unfortunately they've just closed it as it's too expensive to run 

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

[Barman]

Well bugger me, someone actually did build a desalination plant. Unfortunately they've just closed it as it's too expensive to run 

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

I know... 

[Steve]

Well bugger me, someone actually did build a desalination plant. Unfortunately they've just closed it as it's too expensive to run 

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

I know... 

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.

[Nick]

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!

[Just One More]

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!

[Nick]

https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/20294254.look-back-minister-drought-denis-howell-visits-bradford-summer-1976/

 

[Steve]

[Uncle Mort]

 

[Miss Demeanour]

First lot of substantial rain = flooding  as the tough ol ground will not be willing to accept penetration 

We should all live in paddling pools