Posted on 02/24/2006 5:24:09 AM PST by Winniesboy
Water companies in south-east England have been told that if they delay introducing hosepipe bans and other water-saving measures households may get water for only a few hours a day and standpipes will have to be introduced as in the drought of 1976...."The rainfall from November until earlier this month was the lowest in 40 to 50 years [across England] and in the south-east there has been nothing as bad since the 1930s," said Terry Marsh, a senior hydrologist at the centre "The recent rain has been welcome, and ground water levels are now rising belatedly, but from a very low level. There are rivers where levels are still lower than in 1976."
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Try Swansea. I was there for a year and I cannot remember a day without rain. Mind you great town (now city) loved it!
You have my sympathy - I remember standpipes from days in Kent. Not good. Do I recall some water being shipped from France or is that my imagination?
"Do I recall some water being shipped from France or is that my imagination?"
I remember it being mooted as a possibility some years ago (probably talking mid-eighties), I'm not sure it was ever implemented though.
Mmmm...they need the water now to douse the car fires I guess...
regards!
Climatic change is part of a natural cycle that turns upon thousands of years and has never been adequately measured enough to predict the next cyclical change.
That being said, WE'RE DOOMED!!!...
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