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Wet, Wet, Wet
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In article , Nick Wagg writes: | Tumbleweed wrote: | | LOL it was only a few weeks ago they were warning about water shortages and | saying it wasnt feasible we'd get enough rain to compensate for the dry | summer. | | They were referring to the South East which gets most of its water | from aquifers, because rain takes a long time to soak into them. | The rain that has fallen recently will make very little difference | to the aquifers so I expect hosepipe bans again this Summer, here in | Cambridge. I was under the impression that several of our sources had about a 6 month lag, but others are much longer. The recent 'bans' have had virtually nothing to do with a lack of rainfall, as we have now had several very wet years in a row. In other parts of the country, there have been problems with a lack of storage capacity (i.e. not enough to last through a summer with little rain), but that doesn't really apply here as we get our water from deep aquifers. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Wet, Wet, Wet
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In article , Nick Wagg writes: | Tumbleweed wrote: | | LOL it was only a few weeks ago they were warning about water shortages and | saying it wasnt feasible we'd get enough rain to compensate for the dry | summer. | | They were referring to the South East which gets most of its water | from aquifers, because rain takes a long time to soak into them. | The rain that has fallen recently will make very little difference | to the aquifers so I expect hosepipe bans again this Summer, here in | Cambridge. I was under the impression that several of our sources had about a 6 month lag, but others are much longer. The recent 'bans' have had virtually nothing to do with a lack of rainfall, as we have now had several very wet years in a row. In other parts of the country, there have been problems with a lack of storage capacity (i.e. not enough to last through a summer with little rain), but that doesn't really apply here as we get our water from deep aquifers. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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