Looks like all these Highland spring water bottles at a £1 are causing a problem then 😂
It’s completely anecdotal, and I haven’t measured it properly at all but eh. Here we go.
There’s a quarry lake in our village with a lower and upper path to walk around. Every year for the last 10 years, the lower path has been flooded by the end of autumn, and re-appeared late spring as the rainfall and water level dropped.
This time though, by late December 2021 , the lower path had about 30cm of clearance down to the water level, and it never got higher than that. It’s massively under filled right now – lowest I’ve ever seen it.
So either the thing is leaking (it probably is leaking, but question if that leak is worse this year than previous), or there has been much less rainfall in the period Autumn 2021 through Spring ’22.
I wish now I’d taken more accurate measurements of the lake level, it would have been interesting, and there’s no measuring stick in it.
As someone who works outdoors the good weather recently has been a blessing but christ if this isnt concerning. Been like this all spring and summer.
Call it aridification, droughts make it seem temporary. What we are going to see is an irreversible process.
The UK I feel is in the odd position of being on the edge of water scarcity in the near future (like many nations); but equally very well equipped to combat such shortages with some investment in public works.
There’s no doubt we get enough rainfall, and in a fairly well distributed manner (i.e. we have no desert regions or places so far from coasts/hills to require ridiculous support). We just simply don’t make any great use of it in most cases because why would we when water is something we’ve never been short of.
Farming will take a hit though. The Somerset levels are fed through hundreds of miles of reens and rivers filled both from the hills and literally just overflow from the fields. That’s not something you can as easily fix with a few extra resevoirs as it’s just not centralised.
I never expected to see this be a potential issue in Scotland. That’s concerning.
Scotland does not, as far as I know, a particular dry country. What is going on here? Is this something to do with infrastructure?
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Looks like all these Highland spring water bottles at a £1 are causing a problem then 😂
It’s completely anecdotal, and I haven’t measured it properly at all but eh. Here we go.
There’s a quarry lake in our village with a lower and upper path to walk around. Every year for the last 10 years, the lower path has been flooded by the end of autumn, and re-appeared late spring as the rainfall and water level dropped.
This time though, by late December 2021 , the lower path had about 30cm of clearance down to the water level, and it never got higher than that. It’s massively under filled right now – lowest I’ve ever seen it.
So either the thing is leaking (it probably is leaking, but question if that leak is worse this year than previous), or there has been much less rainfall in the period Autumn 2021 through Spring ’22.
I wish now I’d taken more accurate measurements of the lake level, it would have been interesting, and there’s no measuring stick in it.
As someone who works outdoors the good weather recently has been a blessing but christ if this isnt concerning. Been like this all spring and summer.
Call it aridification, droughts make it seem temporary. What we are going to see is an irreversible process.
The UK I feel is in the odd position of being on the edge of water scarcity in the near future (like many nations); but equally very well equipped to combat such shortages with some investment in public works.
There’s no doubt we get enough rainfall, and in a fairly well distributed manner (i.e. we have no desert regions or places so far from coasts/hills to require ridiculous support). We just simply don’t make any great use of it in most cases because why would we when water is something we’ve never been short of.
Farming will take a hit though. The Somerset levels are fed through hundreds of miles of reens and rivers filled both from the hills and literally just overflow from the fields. That’s not something you can as easily fix with a few extra resevoirs as it’s just not centralised.
I never expected to see this be a potential issue in Scotland. That’s concerning.
Scotland does not, as far as I know, a particular dry country. What is going on here? Is this something to do with infrastructure?
Global warming starting to hit home