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How wet is your drought?
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01-05-12, 08:24 AM
nonetheless, we have had droughts before, as far back as in 1976..yet what extra storage / transportation systems have been developed since then...its insane to have a drought yet all this stormwater simply goes to waste....it wont be too long before the old adage will get trotted out ....
" well you see, the problem is...its the wrong kind of water " ! :\ 
01-05-12, 05:47 PM
(01-05-12, 08:24 AM)pitternator link Wrote: what extra storage / transportation systems have been developed since then... The problem is that such systems are very expensive and usually, eventually, there's enough rain for someone to say "well we don't need to spend the money", so nothing happens. Having said that, Yorkshire have introduced such systems because the west gets all the rain whilst the east is in the rain-shadow of the Pennines and gets much less see for details.
01-05-12, 05:52 PM
apparently the ground is too dried out and hard so the rain won't soak in and runs down the drains instead.
so shouldn't we be watering the ground to keep it soft instead of banning hosepipe use? 
02-05-12, 01:00 PM
Pinched this from a mates Facebook says it all really
"I went for a swim to take my mind off the terrible drought we're experiencing. I did 25 lengths of the back garden." but bare in mind this is the same bloke that posted this as well "The average bloke thinks about sex once every six tits." 
02-05-12, 04:53 PM
I did not expect that you have droughts in GB with all that rain, curious.
It has barely rained here in southern Spain this year. There is enough water in the reservoirs but the countryside and needs much more. Then that stupid clouds came just for ruining the Grand Prix, I got all wet. No more rain expected until September.
02-05-12, 05:50 PM
Just like this country.............. no more rain til tomorrow.
02-05-12, 06:19 PM
STOP PRESS! We have had a dry day in Birmingham today! Managed to get bike out and did a few miles -one of the benefits of being "retired"
However.....sky looks very dark so have to see what develops :rolleyes
02-05-12, 07:45 PM
02-05-12, 07:50 PM
02-05-12, 08:22 PM
(02-05-12, 07:45 PM)bmseven link Wrote: [quote author=mcyoungy link=topic=2757.msg22136#msg22136 date=1335977442]Spain has its worst drought in 70 years! [/quote] Yes it is hard to be worse than almost zero. There are many reservoirs, despite the dry weather I think there are not restrictions since the 90's if I recall right. But the countryside is a desert and there will be little crop this year. If the next winter isn't wet it will be catastrophic, the reservoirs will empty. This added to the economic situation is fearsome. It seems than short-sighted governments are not only from Spain. Those weird standpipes are incredible. 
02-05-12, 09:09 PM
I was up the Elan valley today, as you can see here in Wales we do not have a word for drought, in fact we have aout 150 percent of the water we need.
What matters is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog
03-05-12, 08:26 AM
well you welshies want to charge us now for piping water to the rest of the country ! :b
why dont we have all the unemployed lined up in a chain and bucket the water down to the south east ?? :lol |
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