How wet is your drought?

[rustyrider]

But it's mostly down to bad management.  When we do get any rain in appreciable quantities, they simply open the sluice gates and let it flow out to the sea.  A mate lives in the south of France and hardly gets any rain from April to October.  Do they have hosepipe bans?  No, the automatic sprinklers are on every day on the flower beds too.  Because the canals are used as huge water pipes to shift it from areas that do get rain as well as for barges to carry goods around.