Wots all this about a drought

[franco12]

If you've ever been to Boundary Park in November- you'll welcome the temperature change.

[Lordbenny]

I live in Coulsdon, Surrey supplied by Sutton & South East Water. They are about to place another drought order on us that bans the washing of cars AT ALL even with a bucket!

Forgive me if I'm wrong but didn't the Romans invent a National Water Grid 2000 years ago? They invented aquaducts & canals to transport water around the UK.

Oh yes, while I'm on the old 'soapbox'...Will Sutton & South East water give us a refund on our water bills? Would you pay Sky if they decided they were only going to let you watch 20 minutes of TV a day?

I'm looking out of my window as we speak &......it's raining, again.

[pistonbroke]

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.

I thought "soft " water was the stuff derived from rainfall catchment and mountain springs filtered by loverley limestone strata and having a low ph value

"hard"   water being mostly derived from bore holes , where the stuff has permiated through the local bed rock or whatever features and having a high content of dissolved minerals in it

The main feature being IRON giving a high ph and so called Hard Water  

On the other hand

I could be talking through me  

   

[Blatman]

I thought "soft " water was the stuff derived from rainfall catchment

Yup, and IIRC from my school days, every drop of rainfall is formed around a grain of salt...

[Liam]

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.

Ever heard the expression "too much information"

bl**** marine biologists  

Sorted out you lube prob yet

[scruffythefirst]

Sorted out you lube prob yet

If you mean oil pressure, yes.  Otherwise I've never had any problems with lube

[nikpro]

I thought "soft " water was the stuff derived from rainfall catchment

Yup, and IIRC from my school days, every drop of rainfall is formed around a grain of salt...

Not salt; I'm almost sure. raindrops are formed around particles. The salt is left in the sea when the water evaporates. If it were formed around a grain of salt we wouldn't have fresh water lakes and rivers surely?

I also thought this was why the sea is salty because the water evaporates leaving the salt behind.

[scruffythefirst]

Not salt; I'm almost sure. raindrops are formed around particles

Dust, hence the con trails you get from aircraft that are formed on the soot particles from the jet engines.

[Liam]

Not salt; I'm almost sure. raindrops are formed around particles

Dust, hence the con trails you get from aircraft that are formed on the soot particles from the jet engines.

For 'eavans sake. Don't get him started again

[skids]

going to Coulsdon tonight for a boozup

[blitz]

Hard water has soaked thro. rock (especially limestone) and picked up a mineral content, such as calcium carbonate or magnesium carbonate.  It is often, though not exclusivley obtained from boreholes or springs.  Lowland river water is usually medium hard, again from what it has picked up on it's travels.

Upland river water is usually very soft and more acidic having mostly passed through peat and not rock.

Less people suffer from heart conditions in hard water areas than in soft, though no one has been able to establish why.

[matthew h]

After cycling to work in the rain for over 2 hours, I don't care at this moment if its hard or soft............

[scruffythefirst]

A hard rains gonna fall