Here’s a question since we’ll shortly be asked to use less water.
I’d say the biggest waste of water I’m personally responsible for is running the tap until the water comes out cold when I want a drink.
Is there a way of getting cold water out of the tap faster or without running as much water, or, is it safe to drink lukewarm bubbly water that been sat in hot pipes?
I suppose I should probably fill up a big bottle one per day and stick it in the fridge instead of having to run the tap for a minute 5x a day, which is what I’ll do unless anyone has any better ideas?
Run the first bit into a kettle or poor it onto your garden
How are the climate change deniers doing? They’ve been pretty quiet for a while.
Fair enough. Down here in Cornwall we have triple the number of tourists our 500k person water supply is designed to accommodate because it’s summer, and 2 of the 3 major reservoirs near where I live are dry.
As we have some some of the highest bills in the country, maybe South West Water should reduce the estimated 84.4m litres of water a day it loses due to leaks rather than concentrating on shareholder profits?
Like to see how people today would have coped in 76
Don’t worry chaps. Boris will be at every cobra meeting to make sure the oven ready drought will not last. We have it on good authority as reese moggs has talked to some merry sea life and everything will be fine as the blue passports can remind you of the water you no longer use out of your hosepipe.
Friendly reminder that household usage of water is a small percentage of overall usage. Agriculture and industry use 80%+ of all water resources in the UK.
For example it takes about 60 litres of water to make 1 litre of Coca Cola.
The government needs to fucking invest in more reservoirs and force large companies to pay more for their usage and/or force them to be more efficient with their product creation process.
Maybe the fact that the last reservoir was built in 1981 has something to do with it.
There’s heaps of rain forecast across the UK for the second half of August thankfully.
Really needs to be declared south east too. I’ve not seen a spell this dry in my life..
People will still say climate change isn’t real when it’s slapping us right in the face
Driving around Somerset and the mendips everything is brown and even more established trees have brown dead leaves and the green leaves are drooping I’ve never seen anything like here
Hasn’t rained here to any degree for weeks, and the southwest gets ‘flooded’ by tourists in the summer. It hasn’t been an issue for 2 years because of covid, but its a disaster this year.
I dont want to defend southwest water because they are assholes in many ways, but the main issue is that the population of the southwest jumps dramatically in the summer, but its the regular population that have to pay the bills. while tourist use is still paid for in the hotel costs etc its not enough for the infrastructure upgrades the peak use requires, it only really covers the water.
Even with that we normally have the water to go round, but this year is exceptional. Its not just the drought, its the heat. Evaporation is really hitting hard. This weather also causes algal bloom, which can shut a reservoir, because these algae can be toxic and those toxins are hard to remove at point of treatment.
I love how we live on an island surrounded by water yet run out of water lol
It has not rained in any meaningful way for over two months near me now. The only green lawns in the area are those with astroturf and a neighbour who leaves his sprinkler on all day. While summer is meant to have less rain than other seasons, it is not meant to be this arid and crops are going to really suffer for the rest of the year. Food price rises and shortages could easily happen now.
I just wanted you to know that you can’t just say the word *drought* and expect anything to happen.
The reason is USA discouraged renewables and low carbon initiatives. If USA don’t do it no one else will. Europes emissions are tiny % directly.
India and China is off the scale and won’t change unless USA and Europe start to demand that the energy used in the production of the crap we buy comes from a sustainable source.
Water companies should be legally required to invest in their systems to prevent leaks before paying out bonuses to their shareholders.
Omg we should immediately have a moratorium on green levies 🥴
Just wait until it starts raining again, with a few millilitres of rainfall, then it’ll be, “Oh noes, it’s too wet round ‘ere! We’re being flooded!”
In the winter months it’ll be, “2 inches of snow has fallen overnight – good lord! Shut the entire country down! We can’t handle such huge depths of snow!”
No matter whatever the weather in this country in whatever season, it’s always treated as a catastrophic crisis of biblical proportions.
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Lockdown level 3 it is then
Here’s a question since we’ll shortly be asked to use less water.
I’d say the biggest waste of water I’m personally responsible for is running the tap until the water comes out cold when I want a drink.
Is there a way of getting cold water out of the tap faster or without running as much water, or, is it safe to drink lukewarm bubbly water that been sat in hot pipes?
I suppose I should probably fill up a big bottle one per day and stick it in the fridge instead of having to run the tap for a minute 5x a day, which is what I’ll do unless anyone has any better ideas?
Run the first bit into a kettle or poor it onto your garden
How are the climate change deniers doing? They’ve been pretty quiet for a while.
Fair enough. Down here in Cornwall we have triple the number of tourists our 500k person water supply is designed to accommodate because it’s summer, and 2 of the 3 major reservoirs near where I live are dry.
As we have some some of the highest bills in the country, maybe South West Water should reduce the estimated 84.4m litres of water a day it loses due to leaks rather than concentrating on shareholder profits?
Like to see how people today would have coped in 76
Don’t worry chaps. Boris will be at every cobra meeting to make sure the oven ready drought will not last. We have it on good authority as reese moggs has talked to some merry sea life and everything will be fine as the blue passports can remind you of the water you no longer use out of your hosepipe.
Friendly reminder that household usage of water is a small percentage of overall usage. Agriculture and industry use 80%+ of all water resources in the UK.
For example it takes about 60 litres of water to make 1 litre of Coca Cola.
The government needs to fucking invest in more reservoirs and force large companies to pay more for their usage and/or force them to be more efficient with their product creation process.
Maybe the fact that the last reservoir was built in 1981 has something to do with it.
There’s heaps of rain forecast across the UK for the second half of August thankfully.
Really needs to be declared south east too. I’ve not seen a spell this dry in my life..
People will still say climate change isn’t real when it’s slapping us right in the face
Driving around Somerset and the mendips everything is brown and even more established trees have brown dead leaves and the green leaves are drooping I’ve never seen anything like here
Hasn’t rained here to any degree for weeks, and the southwest gets ‘flooded’ by tourists in the summer. It hasn’t been an issue for 2 years because of covid, but its a disaster this year.
I dont want to defend southwest water because they are assholes in many ways, but the main issue is that the population of the southwest jumps dramatically in the summer, but its the regular population that have to pay the bills. while tourist use is still paid for in the hotel costs etc its not enough for the infrastructure upgrades the peak use requires, it only really covers the water.
Even with that we normally have the water to go round, but this year is exceptional. Its not just the drought, its the heat. Evaporation is really hitting hard. This weather also causes algal bloom, which can shut a reservoir, because these algae can be toxic and those toxins are hard to remove at point of treatment.
I love how we live on an island surrounded by water yet run out of water lol
It has not rained in any meaningful way for over two months near me now. The only green lawns in the area are those with astroturf and a neighbour who leaves his sprinkler on all day. While summer is meant to have less rain than other seasons, it is not meant to be this arid and crops are going to really suffer for the rest of the year. Food price rises and shortages could easily happen now.
I just wanted you to know that you can’t just say the word *drought* and expect anything to happen.
The reason is USA discouraged renewables and low carbon initiatives. If USA don’t do it no one else will. Europes emissions are tiny % directly.
India and China is off the scale and won’t change unless USA and Europe start to demand that the energy used in the production of the crap we buy comes from a sustainable source.
Water companies should be legally required to invest in their systems to prevent leaks before paying out bonuses to their shareholders.
Omg we should immediately have a moratorium on green levies 🥴
Just wait until it starts raining again, with a few millilitres of rainfall, then it’ll be, “Oh noes, it’s too wet round ‘ere! We’re being flooded!”
In the winter months it’ll be, “2 inches of snow has fallen overnight – good lord! Shut the entire country down! We can’t handle such huge depths of snow!”
No matter whatever the weather in this country in whatever season, it’s always treated as a catastrophic crisis of biblical proportions.
Sounds a bit like 1976 then
We’re still here 45 years later