On Tue, 17 May 2005 11:19:25 +0100, Janet Baraclough
wrote:

~The message
~from (jane) contains these words:
~
~ Yes, but in a country which is heading for hosepipe bans due to a
~ shortage of clean water this summer, surely getting water directly
~ from a dyke will be much greener, as it's not been expensively
~ purified, saves using drinking water and is in any case gradually
~ making its way to the sea?
~
~ Is it? Or is it gradually seeping back to some deep aquifer from
~which dry areas' essential water supply is drawn? Or pumped onto arable
~crops?
~
~ Janet.

Which are equally as good a use I suspect, but in general most of the
dykes in Lincolnshire seem to drain into the Hundred Foot Drain and
its ilk, and thence to the sea.
http://www.answers.com/topic/the-fens

now you've got me looking


--
jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

Please remove onmaps from replies, thanks!