In article , Chris Hogg
wrote:

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:21:59 +0100, Klara
wrote:



Http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/a.../Hosepipe%20ba
n%20to%20stay%20for%20a%20year/article.do

How can the provision (of water be all about money?
Depressing....

What puzzles me is that they pump water out of the ground from the
aquifers. It leaks from pipes in the ground, presumably going back to
the aquifers where it came from, and a huge fuss is made about it.
Whilest recirculating all that water might be a waste of money that
water-rate-payers could justifiably complain about, it's not obviously
a waste of water.

Much of it doesn't get back to the aquifers. In the same way that heavy
rain between April and September doesn't replenish the aquifers because
of evaporation, transpiration, tree and plant take-up, etc.

Nor is there necessarily a usuable aquifer below a leak. In Greater
London, 90 percent of the water supply is taken from the rivers (Thames
and Lee - see http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/template.cfm?name=BA6 ) and not
from underground resources.