Wots all this about a drought

[Thrustyjust]

They could of helped by not building 40 trillion new homes all over Kent in the last 6 months.

yep,we in Berkshire have got a few trillion being built here too.Beneficeries are:

1/ government

2/ local council

3/ drop outs looking for sheltered housing

4/builders

5/ utilities

loosers:

1/ us.less green land

2/ us.less interest in people already here and schools crammed

3/ us.more break ins and vandalism

4/us.more lorries and congestion

5/ us,less water for everyone,more power cuts.

Blame= the Government and their ****e strategy.

[Robandcolin]

I feel like taking them down to the sea and ask them what they think it is made of. Its certainly not cheese is it.    

[Pembroke Pat]

To solve the problem,

(1) Government makes legislation for max allowable leak rates.

(2) Police investigate water companies for lying about leak rates (oh they are doing that already esp Severn Trent) and put directors in prison if they fail.

(3) A national transmission system for water to be used to keep lots of people in the south east watered ( called a canal.  Hardly advanced technology).

(4) Nationalisation of any water company that fails to meet the leak rate targets.

rant over

   

[gadrego]

They won't soak up water like earth does so the water level will rise - clever eh ?    

Not sure about that.  Have you seen their hair?

[Liam]

Uses less water than a normal hose pipe, and if you do it by a drain it goes back into the system,

Ooer, you mean I've just drunk what you washed your car in: all that rust and miscellaneous bits that were only held on by the dirt    

[lukeyboy]

(3) A national transmission system for water to be used to keep lots of people in the south east watered ( called a canal.  Hardly advanced technology).

Sod off stealing our water, southerners always b***h about how crap the north is. Well that it may be but were not going to go thirsty.

I think it's a fair trade... you get more sun, we get more rain. We also have more hills and mountains to stand on when the water level rises with global warming.

   

[scruffythefirst]

Ooer, you mean I've just drunk what you washed your car in: all that rust and miscellaneous bits that were only held on by the dirt    

What do you think happens to the sewage?  Theres a plant near chelmsford that treats the sewage and when the quality is ok, it goes straight into the drinking water intake, most plants discharge into a river, which is then abstracted downstream for drinking water.

[jago]

whats oldham  

[jak]

whats oldham  

It's one of those places north of Watford that the "national" media based in the south east ignore cos they 've got their heads stuck up their own                            

John

[Bob Green]

Dunno about you, but I ain't keen on drinking sea water.

So, you haven't had a glass of Severn Trent's finest.

Sure taste like sea water!  

 

[Blatman]

Dunno about you, but I ain't keen on drinking sea water.

So, you haven't had a glass of Severn Trent's finest.

Sure taste like sea water!  

 

I avoid tap water these days. It's either out the Britta jug or a bottle. But London water is both very hard (which I like) but it also smells and tastes quite badly of chlorine most of the time, which I don't like.

I keep meaning to buy and fit a second tap to the sink for filtered drinking water supply without the need to keep filling up the jug. I'll get to it one of these days...

[Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO]

whats oldham  

Oldham's one of those places that will survive when global warming really takes a hold and sea levels rise above the thames barrier  

[blitz]

Blatman is on the right track.  Mains water is very high quality these days, the chlorine is there because the law says it must be, mostly to protect you from people who  through ignorance cause "back syphonage"  (ooh eer, nasty) which introduces contaminated water, back into the mains.  Also hard water is much better for you than soft.

[Mrs Westy]

Also hard water is much better for you than soft.

Oooh didn't know that...why?  (Why is it better for you, not why didn't I know that)

[Blatman]

I think it's to do with the salt content of soft water. IE it has much more than hard water. I also find hard water quenches my thirst much better than soft water.