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Pog66 26-04-2012 11:03
Re: How stupid is the water ban
 
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Originally Posted by martyh (Post 35419158)
exactly
...and it's a summer with olympics - will stop raining at the end of Sept

TheDaddy 28-04-2012 02:36
Re: How stupid is the water ban
 
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Originally Posted by Gary L (Post 35419136)
They want another 6 months worth of rain before they call of the drought.
We're in drought? Wonder how many Africans will be sending us £2 a month... :D

RichardCoulter 28-04-2012 05:47
Re: How stupid is the water ban
 
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Originally Posted by Maggy J (Post 35418870)
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/extreme-wea...-20120423.html

I predict that we will be told that this won't be enough to drop the hosepipe ban...;)
I agree and also believe that, such as is the shortage of water and the rising numbers living in the UK that they will consider making the ban permanent, albeit less stringent.

I am lucky as I am exempt from the ban.

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 35420144)
We're in drought? Wonder how many Africans will be sending us £2 a month... :D
PMSL

RichardCoulter 28-04-2012 13:13
Re: How stupid is the water ban
 
Forgot to say that they are trying out ideas to save water in the short and long term.

Short time eg female urinals in pubs etc

Long term eg washing machines that don't use water.

Maggy 30-04-2012 16:31
Re: How stupid is the water ban
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17897982

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This has been the wettest April in the UK in over a century, with some areas seeing three times their usual average, figures from the Met Office show.
Some 121.8mm of rain has fallen, beating the previous record of 120.3mm which was set in 2000.
Sigh! I'm now wondering what it is going to be like for May.:(

Gary L 30-04-2012 16:38
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Originally Posted by Maggy J (Post 35421243)
Sigh! I'm now wondering what it is going to be like for May.:(
Overcast, with a few sunny intervals.

Tim Deegan 30-04-2012 16:49
Re: How stupid is the water ban
 
It's supposed to be the coldest May on recor, with heavy snow :erm:

jempalmer 30-04-2012 16:55
Re: How stupid is the water ban
 
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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan (Post 35421252)
It's supposed to be the coldest May on recor, with heavy snow :erm:
I hope not, I'm Best Man on Saturday :)

Tim Deegan 30-04-2012 17:24
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Originally Posted by jempalmer (Post 35421253)
I hope not, I'm Best Man on Saturday :)
Around here it looks like 9 degrees C, sunny, with showers. So the same as we have had most of April then.

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy (Post 35421255)
Is that from the Met office?

Better get the barbecue out and the aircon rigged up.:D
You are probably right.

In previous years they have said that we will get a hot summer, and got it wrong. So they could be playing it safe this year :D

TheDaddy 01-05-2012 04:45
Re: How stupid is the water ban
 
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Originally Posted by Gary L (Post 35421247)
Overcast, with a few sunny intervals.
Still in drought, still with a hosepipe ban and water water everywhere...

Jimmy-J 02-05-2012 02:58
Re: How stupid is the water ban
 
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Now the threat of standpipes! UK's biggest water firm bans hosepipes until Christmas despite wettest April for 100 years
Link

Tim Deegan 02-05-2012 08:47
Re: How stupid is the water ban
 
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Originally Posted by Jimmy-J (Post 35422102)
If reservoirs are 100% full then continuing the ban is pointless, because there is nowhere to put the water saved by the ban :rolleyes:

Osem 02-05-2012 18:59
Re: How stupid is the water ban
 
As has already been stated, it's not only reservoirs which store and provide our water, the main issue in much of the drought area is the underqround aquifers which serve large parts of the country and are at very low levels. These aquifers rely on winter rains to recharge them, since much of the summer rain is lost to plant growth, evaporation etc. Recharging takes many weeks/months after rain has fallen so the less water taken from these aquifers right now, the better and that's why the hosepipe ban is still important.

Tim Deegan 02-05-2012 19:34
Re: How stupid is the water ban
 
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Originally Posted by Osem (Post 35422442)
As has already been stated, it's not only reservoirs which store and provide our water, the main issue in much of the drought area is the underqround aquifers which serve large parts of the country and are at very low levels. These aquifers rely on winter rains to recharge them, since much of the summer rain is lost to plant growth, evaporation etc. Recharging takes many weeks/months after rain has fallen so the less water taken from these aquifers right now, the better and that's why the hosepipe ban is still important.
I understand that. However with the most rain in April for 100 years, and the rivers overflowing, this usually brings the water table up. Especially when it is persistent rain, rather than just downpours over a day or two. It is often the fact that the water table is high, that stops water being absorbed through the ground, and caused the rivers to be so high. After all it isn't like summer floods when the ground is too dry to absorb the water, and it just runs off.

Hom3r 02-05-2012 21:03
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This situation makes me laugh, the wettest drought ever.


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