Am i the only one that

[sassieb]

Thinks it strange how we are in the middle of a water crisis in the south yet we are an island,,, surrounded by water,, lots and lots of it :blink:

Are things as really as bad as they would have us think? i mean there are loads of leaks about that they arent too concerned about so surely then they have water to waste? :rolleyes:

pathetic if you ask me. :rant:
Anyways,, just wanted to vent.

Ta

Sass


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[Annabel]

I think there is sufficient water but that we do not use the resource properly.

some areas of the UK have loads more water than they will ever use , whilst the south is much dryer. now if the water industry wasnt privatised maybe somethng could be done about this, but seeing as it is and profit now rules, its a mess and will always be a mess! :banghead:

[Eeyore]

Thankfully we're fine up here in the north, but I know what you mean - we do not use natural resources properly :(

[Toots]

I hate my water company, I am on a meter and I am so careful what I use, yetm my half yearly bill was £220!

[sassieb]

I even text into a national daily paper yesterday saying about us being surrounding by the wet stuff but yet these "lets leave the leaks and pretend they arent there and in the meantime stuff the customers" companies sit back and still take our money for water we cant use!
How on earth can they justify that!
:rant:

[phantos02]

Couldn't agree more - it's about time the water companies were forced to do something about their leaks and storage problems.

We have a big water butt in the garden to catch water froom the roof and I also leave big buckets and watering cans out to catch the rain so I can water my garden. I have a large area that I would really love to turf but I can't afford to waste money on new turf that will go all curled and crispy within a few weeks because I can't use the hosepipe on it. Will have to go for cheap grass seed and a watering can and hope for the best!!!

[Beth]

some of it it is to do with the water table which is low at present, so even though we have had a very wet May, the water tables havent recovered.

its like a sponge, if you tip water onto a dry sponge, a lot of the water will run off (into streams, gutters sewage etc)
if you drip water slowly onto the sponge the sponge will start to absorb the water and the bottom will get wet and then the sponge can hold that contained water for a long time.

the sponge is like certain types of rocks in certain areas of the country, a lot of the clean water we use comes from the bottom of the sponge so to speak.

I am also incredibly cross at the water wastage from leaks etc. I was talking to an older lady the other day and she said just after the war the water company could tell if you had a dripping tap in your house and would make you fix it!
long gone have those days then :rolleyes:

I dont blame you for not wanting to "folk" out for turf at the moment Phantos!!

[tiomet]

I find it really interesting. I grew up in Africa, and spent young years in what was Bechuanaland (now Botswana) and they had had a fourteen year drought there. That was a drought, I mean NO rain for fourteen years and all water was got by artesian wells (grit baths and brown drinking water) or brought daily by rail to the sidings where the locals would gather to fill containers. We got used to the smell of rotting carcasses where the animals dropped and died from thirst.

I was there when the drought broke and it still makes me cry remembering the sight of the people dancing for joy for hours in the rain.

The water situation is grossly mismanaged in Britain and, as Annabel said, if it was not privatised then it would be moved around to cover low water areas.

Every time I see a dripping tap I think of the children during the war in Iraq, who got sick because they had no water and were drinking from the filthy puddles in the road where the lorries made furrows.

Water is expensive in Britain because there has to be substantial investment by the water companies to replace incredibly old pipes and other water facilities. That is okay, we can pull together for that but I think that the companies must now be charged with keeping to a deadline and then the costs must be revised ... or it must be nationalised.

For now I must confess I am overjoyed simply to be able to turn on a tap and be able to drink the water that comes out of it.

[Beth]

your right tiomet

it certainly makes you think, and we are so lucky really in this country that we know that we can just turn on a tap and drink clean water :)