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The only problem with desalination plants is that they use a load of energy to convert the water. A bit of a Catch 22.
Nothing a nice big nucler power station cant handle Thats the thing its all down to give and take if you want water then something has to be done its either flood some valleys and upset the ramblers by flooding there footpath. or go the disstil route and build a few power stations and upset greenpeace. or just do both and tell them to live with it or leave the country :roll:
It really gets right on my wick that we PAY the water companies to provide a service,
The Environment Agency points to the Bewl reservoir in Kent - the South East's biggest stretch of open water - which last year was only a third full, having been drained by the worst drought since the 1930s.
It really gets right on my wick that we PAY the water companies to provide a service, then they tell US we can't use the water because there isn't enough. That's the whole damn point of PAYING them for the service! If they can't provide the service they exist solely to provide, then it's because they're either totally incompetent, or they prioritise their shareholders over their customers. Almost certainly the second.Can you imagine if you went to the supermarket every couple of weeks, and they said sorry, we don't have any food at the moment, you'll have to make do without? Any supermarket which did that would quickly go out of business. But this is exactly what the water companies are doing, but NOTHING HAPPENS!Well, the way to reverse this is for the customers to kick up enough stink so that the shareholders get jittery. For example, if everybody withheld their water bill money for a quarter, it would cause carnage.I don't know why we put up with this rubbish; mainly because nobody's sure what to do, I suspect. Anybody want to help me start a revolution?
QuoteThe Environment Agency points to the Bewl reservoir in Kent - the South East's biggest stretch of open water - which last year was only a third full, having been drained by the worst drought since the 1930s.Oh, so the weather cycle every hundred or so years means that we should be in fear? :roll: Wasn't it proven on TV a few years back that there's a clear cycle that the weather has a complete cycle every hundred years or so?
Not entirely correct, you PAY for what you use, they ask and sometimes enforce restrictions to ensure there is enough water to go around. Its simple, if the water isnt there you cant use it.
do you have any concept of what it takes to get water from a bore hole or out of a resovoir and to a safe drinkable state at your tap, when you want it 24/7/365??
Quote from: "smo"Not entirely correct, you PAY for what you use, they ask and sometimes enforce restrictions to ensure there is enough water to go around. Its simple, if the water isnt there you cant use it.But it's there, in abundance. The water companies are not investing money in capturing it, storing it and distributing it efficiently. We're not short of water in this country, but we're not using what we have at all efficiently.Quotedo you have any concept of what it takes to get water from a bore hole or out of a resovoir and to a safe drinkable state at your tap, when you want it 24/7/365??No. That's why I pay a lot of money in water bills to somebody who's supposed to do it for me!
But at the moment we are having a totally unprecedented change in climate - the rate of change is far higher than anything that you would expect to happen naturally.
"A year for the record books""It was a year when unusual weather events frequently occupied the headlines, several records were broken, and many people were convinced that the climate really was changing."January '06 was the wettest for almost 30 years in southern England, then on Feb 8 a severe thunderstorm accompanied by hail and violent squalls caused much damage across the Midlands and the South-east."Spring was wet in the north and west of Britain, but very dry in the south and east; June was mostly fine, apart from a 12-hour long, steady downpour on the 29th which deposited between 2 and 3in of rain in a broad zone across southern, central and eastern England."That apart, it was a memorably long and sunny summer which culminated in record-breaking temperatures in early September with 35 deg C widely approached or exceeded."October and November were both remarkably mild though often cloudy and damp, but the year ended with a dramatic burst of wintry weather with widespread snowfalls of 6in or more, and level depths approached 2ft in eastern Scotland."You might not remember all those events. In fact you should not remember any of them as the year was 1906, not 2006."The purpose of the exercise has been to illustrate that, weather-wise, there is nothing new under the sun. Any year will deliver a handful of records and a host of unusual events, and we should not be surprised whe nthey turn up."
If you build 100,000 new houses it stands to reason that you need extra reservoirs to supply them with water,
If you build 100,000 new houses it stands to reason that you need extra reservoirs to supply them with water, the water companies want a meter in every house so they can get their hands on more of your cash, they should be using the cash they have got to fix the leaks in the system instead of funding shareholders
Do you know how much any of the water companies spends on the "network" in any given year?
