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Kay wrote:
... it's July and my lawn is waterlogged and there is a stream running
through the far end of the garden.

I've never known a summer as wet as this!

My feeling about this water shortage in the SE is "It serves them right
for building all those houses there"!

Apparently the problem is that they rely more on extracting water from below
ground whereas up north we use resevoirs more. Ours get replenished by
torrential downpours whereas theirs needs prolonged periods of slow rain to
soak in, otherwise it just runs away.

The houses and roads don't help though. I don't understand why new houses
aren't built with underground resevoirs like a big water butt.

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