Drought, Yet Again...

[FishingMagic]

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[Ron The Hat Clay]

What a thoroughly sensible and logical article you have written.

When are the authorities going to understand that you cannot play around with the supply of water. You cannot build on flood plains and you cannot rely on the banning of hosepipes to solve the problem. The first culprits to sort out are water companies. The way they treat this valuable resource is tantamount to being criminal.

Water cannot be treated like petrol or oil.

The only interest the water companies have is making a profit, and the best way of making a profit is by charging as much as possible for water. They certainly do not want to sell less water.

[amushroom]

spot on ron, lets hope the holistic approach gets adopted

[MarkTheSpark]

Excellent article, Ron; in fact, without knowing you'd written it, I wrote the same things almost word for word yesterday! You've saved me the trouble of finishing it!

I'd pick you up on a couple of very small points; firstly, car washes almost universally recycle their water these days. But by the same token, why doesn't the government insist that they all use ONLY rainwater recycled from the vast petrol pump canopies?

Leakage is a cost issue but not a water issue; after all, the water leaks back into the groundwater, so it hasn't gone anywhere. And there's the real problem; there's not enough rain to keep us going. Whether you put that down to global warming/weirding or cyclic weather patterns, we need to find ways to prevent so much fresh water reaching the sea, and that needs a complete overhaul; of our waterways and farming practises.

But you are absolutely spot on about metering; I have launched an e-petition calling for the urgent and compulsory introduction of water metering across domestic and business supplies. When it goes live, will you give it your support?

[little oik]

Just throw another a few extra questions into the conundrum.
Where does the bottled water come from that is on the shelves of most shops these days .How much in gallons are actually taken out of the system to supply this need? and How much in gallons are sitting on shelves Warehouses and at plants awaiting the shelves ?
If anybody could get the figures together, it would surprise quite a few people I shouldn't wonder.

[MarkTheSpark]

Originally Posted by little oik

Just throw another a few extra questions into the conundrum.
Where does the bottled water come from that is on the shelves of most shops these days .How much in gallons are actually taken out of the system to supply this need? and How much in gallons are sitting on shelves Warehouses and at plants awaiting the shelves ?
If anybody could get the figures together, it would surprise quite a few people I shouldn't wonder.

Interesting question. Nobody can object to bottling water for drinking; it's not as if people are buying it to flush the bog (as they do with mains water). In terms of volume, it won't even come close to the hundreds of millions of litres lost from the pipes through leakage. Or the gallons used to flush the bog.

[davefromthecolnevalley]

Originally Posted by little oik

Just throw another a few extra questions into the conundrum.
Where does the bottled water come from that is on the shelves of most shops these days .How much in gallons are actually taken out of the system to supply this need? and How much in gallons are sitting on shelves Warehouses and at plants awaiting the shelves ?
If anybody could get the figures together, it would surprise quite a few people I shouldn't wonder.

and fizzy drinks as well.

[Mr Cholmondeley-Corker (PaSC)]

and Pot Noodles

[little oik]

I was just trying to highlight one small part of the water usage or wastage as the case may be .
Consumer led products like drinks (soft and alcoholic) being stockpiled.
Bigger populations in certain areas Require more and more water .(due to consumption of households )
Agriculture have changed crops to a degree that although they mature a lot earlier they need far more water .
More Livestock to feed growing populations means more water needed.
No new reservoirs built to store water in the wet months .
Leaks would need a lot of monies and disruption to fix but the water does end up back where it first started .
Even down to Population increases ,as this takes water out of the "system" (the body is made up of a large percentage water don't forget.

The Earth has a given amount of water .How this is used and distributed is to some degree out of our hands .However to me the situation is not going to get any better just worse.

Anybody thought where all the hydrogen powered vehicles ( if the scientist have there way )are going to get their refills???? Or will this mean even more water will be taken out of the system.After all you do not to drive to live .
Water is a far more precious commodity than oil .Until more people realise this then nothing will change

[Jeff Woodhouse]

Originally Posted by MarkTheSpark

Or the gallons used to flush the bog.

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