.... 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!
--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

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"!

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writes
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"!

Oh, I don't know. I'd far rather they built them there than here!
--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

Kay wrote:
In article .com,
writes
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"!

Oh, I don't know. I'd far rather they built them there than here!

I never had you down as a NIMBY, Kay... I don't want them here either. Worst
of it is, my sister is an architect with one of the most notorious local
developers. He's been had up in court goodness knows how many times for
flagrantly flouting (try saying that fast after a couple of G&Ts!) planning
regs. He's also just applied to build on one of the few remaining areas of
green belt in the county...

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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.

--
Martin & Anna Sykes
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http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~sykesm

Martin Sykes wrote:
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.
And solar thermal collectors. And wind generators.

And why don't we re-cycle our Grey water for flushing toilets?

wrote in message
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Martin Sykes wrote:
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.
And solar thermal collectors. And wind generators.

And why don't we re-cycle our Grey water for flushing toilets?

And underground heat pumps.

Mary

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Martin Sykes wrote:
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.
And solar thermal collectors. And wind generators.

And why don't we re-cycle our Grey water for flushing toilets?

I've just received a 'letter' from a local-ish solar panel/system
installer, pointing out how it will save on CO² emissions.

I wonder if that would be square commanding-officers? An area of carbon
monoxide? Big square company?

I'm toying with the idea of writing to them to ask if their operation is
as good as their advertising...

--
Rusty
Emus to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co full-stop uk
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
I've just received a 'letter' from a local-ish solar panel/system
installer, pointing out how it will save on CO=B2 emissions.

snork!

My fear about the present "carbon capture" idea of liquifying
COsub2/sub is that as well as locking up carbon we will be locking
up oxygen. We don't want to be doing without Oxygen, tha knows.

"Martin Sykes" wrote in message
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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.


Some 'old' houses used to be, e.g. some rural councils installed underground
rainwater cisterns beneath council houses in the 1930s. These became defunct
when the houses were modernised after the second world war. Some private
rural houses were self sufficient in water, too, e.g. I know one which until
the mid 1970s used to have a well to provide drinking water to the kitchen,
and a large tank in the roof space, filled by pumping water up from the
nearby river, providing water for all non-drinking purposes.

If 'mains' water becomes too unreliable or expensive to cope, no doubt your
idea, or something similar, may become necessary again.

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Some 'old' houses used to be, e.g. some rural councils installed underground
rainwater cisterns beneath council houses in the 1930s. These became defunct
when the houses were modernised after the second world war. Some private
rural houses were self sufficient in water, too, e.g. I know one which until
the mid 1970s used to have a well to provide drinking water to the kitchen,
and a large tank in the roof space, filled by pumping water up from the
nearby river, providing water for all non-drinking purposes.

My grandparents house had a well of drinking water in a space between
it and the house next door, served by a shared handpump. They didn't
have a flush lav so otherwise only needed washing water. For that we
used roof rainwater which collected in a huge galvanised tank outside
the kitchen. In summer the top few inches of water was always full of
wrigglers but they didn't get down to tap level very much :-).

Our neighbour at our last place had a similar roof-fed rain tank
which was his sole source of drinking water until the late 80's. He
didn't have a flush lav either, and just didn't do laundry. He had never
had a bath or shower in his life until he left that house.

When he moved unwillingly to civilisation, I inherited his big tank
and connected it up to the shed roof, giving us another hundred gallons
of standby-water. We also had a plastic 50 gallon butt of roofwater at
the back door. When our private water supply failed, we could usually
quickly draw off a last 10 gallons of proper drinking water into a
plastic barrel before the system ran dry. For everything else we used
rainwater, and if the tanks ran out there was a handy river across the
road.

Janet.

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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"!

I'm in the fairly-south east [0] and my butt runneth over. [1·4¼]

Most of the water from the chilterns, through Hertfordshire, up west
Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk falls in the Chilterns and is conducted that
way by the deep chalk aquefer. The East Anglian Heights are the tail-end
of the Chilterns.

[0] as opposed to the fairly south-east
[1·4¼] thatis, my water-butt.

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Rusty
Emus to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co full-stop uk
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
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from contains these words:
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"!

I'm in the fairly-south east [0] and my butt runneth over. [1·4¼]

The state of your bowels is really not a topic for discussion on this forum,
but I would suggest the immediate taking of a dose of Imodium.

Sarah
(who's in one of *those* moods this morning...)

"Kay" wrote in message
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: ... 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!
: --
: Kay
: "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

I am in the South West ... Plymouth... and it's so hard to believe people
are short of water. Would they like some of ours?!

In message , Kay
writes
... 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!

What about last summer. My back garden didn't dry off from the August
moonsoon until this May, and the weather wasn't exactly dry in the
preceding months. This summer's been fairly dry except for a couple of
days of thunderstorms, until the recent spell of wet weather.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley