The Wettest Drought!

[Omega]

Hi

We were talking to a neighbour yesterday and he said something that made us stop and think............. :unsure:

Everyone is talking about a drought and the rivers drying up etc etc; but he said to us "There is always bottled spring water everywhere"

We thought about it.........

The spring water starts life on top of mountains, and flows down to help fill the rivers.........

So, why are the rivers are drying up - is it totally because of the lack of rain or is it could it be that sometimes the spring water is used at source for Bottled Water?

Suppose an argument could be that the bottled spring water being sold is from France or Switzerland or Scotland.

But it is just a thought......... I don't know :unsure: any ideas?

[Domestic Goddess]

:blink: Ooh! I dunno!

[Miss Understood]

But of course, it's the wrong type of rain! But seriously, I don't think it's anything to do with bottling water, I think it's more fundamental than that.

I had an interesting conversation with a cave man this morning. And I mean that description in the true sense. He's a chap who explores and maps out caves in his spare time - a potholer if you like. He was telling me about this cave he went down last night which he and the caving club are clearing out.

The reason they need to clear it out? Apparently, the natural spring and rain water flows were across a nearby road, causing the road to flood with regular monotony. The car drivers didn't like this. So the council, in their wisdom, diverted the flow of water through a drain, straight down into this cave, thereby filling the cave with rubbish etc. which the cavers are now trying to clear.

I know in my locality, from old maps, that we have many natural springs around. But of course, they've been diverted and tinkered with because of development and so on.

When I lived in Wales for a while, the Victorians thought they had done a magnificent thing by diverting a river and building fine mansions on the original river bed. But, every time it rained, the local park would flood because that's where the water table wanted to send the water. Of course, there was no egress to the river, because it had been diverted, so the local park remained a quagmire for quite a while after a heavy downpour and the river levels slowly decreased.

So, I think we can only blame ourselves, i.e. the human race, for tinkering with the natural flow of things. Water that would once have gone into a river is now being diverted to somewhere totally unnatural because of our greedy developments and the rivers themselves are being slowly drained dry because there's nothing left to fill them with.

Anyway, that's my theory!

MU (in philosopher/water diviner mode)