How long can the enviroment office keep a straight face !
Walking the dog yesterday I could see parts of the Efra have now surfaced in the park yesterday ! I love the way they keep saying the water is bouncing of the surface & going into the sea !
They need to preseve what they have & have the ability to recycle when required !
Dazza
PS Australia does not have a drought now !
Drought Hosepipe ban !
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 08:04 AM
Your obviously mistaken me with someone who gives a fig
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 10:01 AM
I must agree that there is a lot this country could learn from others when it comes to ways of dealing with water!
There is also a huge discrepancy in the way water consumption is dealt with and the price we pay for it. In most other countries water is much cheaper than here, but nevertheless people use less of it and are much more considerate about it. It doesn't make any sense at all. How could you make people think about water and the way they use it, if you charge them a fortune for it however much they actually use! If I want to save on my gas bill, I turn the heating of, if I want to save electricity bill, I switch to energy saving light bulbs etc, but even if I had a bath once a month and took my washing to the laundry, I would STILL have to pay almost 500 quid a year for my water bill. It's driving me insane. I had the Thames guy around to install a water meter, but due to the weirdness of the four terraced houses our's is part of we can't. The guy was very nice and said, but if it's only the three of you living here, and one of the bedrooms is just a guestroom/office space, then I can degrade your house to a two bed and your bill will be less. I though GREAT, finally that makes sense. Just got the new yearly bill. Having one bedroom less, and thereby 2 or 3 people less to wash etc, I have saved the amazing amount of: £2.31 !!! Hurray! WTF??!!
There is also a huge discrepancy in the way water consumption is dealt with and the price we pay for it. In most other countries water is much cheaper than here, but nevertheless people use less of it and are much more considerate about it. It doesn't make any sense at all. How could you make people think about water and the way they use it, if you charge them a fortune for it however much they actually use! If I want to save on my gas bill, I turn the heating of, if I want to save electricity bill, I switch to energy saving light bulbs etc, but even if I had a bath once a month and took my washing to the laundry, I would STILL have to pay almost 500 quid a year for my water bill. It's driving me insane. I had the Thames guy around to install a water meter, but due to the weirdness of the four terraced houses our's is part of we can't. The guy was very nice and said, but if it's only the three of you living here, and one of the bedrooms is just a guestroom/office space, then I can degrade your house to a two bed and your bill will be less. I though GREAT, finally that makes sense. Just got the new yearly bill. Having one bedroom less, and thereby 2 or 3 people less to wash etc, I have saved the amazing amount of: £2.31 !!! Hurray! WTF??!!
Edited by misspoddy, 30 April 2012 - 10:03 AM.
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 10:17 AM
If this drought carries on any longer, we're going to run out of umbrellas...
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 12:01 PM
Got trenchfoot myself !
Your obviously mistaken me with someone who gives a fig
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 01:12 PM
Call me cynical but with compulsory water meters on the way a drought is a great wheeze for making money from 'customers' who have no choice but to use their services.
Shouting 'drought' will enable them to hike prices to preserve supplies. Fixing leaks costs money isn't in their interests. Dry spell + leaky mains = ker-ching.
Shouting 'drought' will enable them to hike prices to preserve supplies. Fixing leaks costs money isn't in their interests. Dry spell + leaky mains = ker-ching.
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Posted 01 May 2012 - 05:41 AM
About five years ago we had a water meter installed - only two of us in a small two bedroomed house- we have managed to cut our bill in half saving at least £150 per year. If you have a family with the obvious baths, wc and washing machine use and such like, its best to stay without one but if there is one or just two of you in one house, then you save. We were told that by not having a water meter fitted our bills subsidise a larger family unit without a water meter, who do not pay the going rate in bills to cover their bigger use - with that info we had one fitted.
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Posted 01 May 2012 - 05:47 AM
During this drought i have had to replace my flowerbed due to the A) Long dry spell 
Invasion of exotic insects c) Lake Windermere the second appearing due to overflowing drains and lots and lots of bloody water falling from the sky !!!
Invasion of exotic insects c) Lake Windermere the second appearing due to overflowing drains and lots and lots of bloody water falling from the sky !!!
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Posted 01 May 2012 - 08:02 AM
Man & his dog drowned yesterday during this drought you couldnt make it up !
They bang on about under investment but as we are one of the countries who pay the most for our water it is obviously not the paying public who have under invested !
Dazza
PS SRD your a Cynic !
They bang on about under investment but as we are one of the countries who pay the most for our water it is obviously not the paying public who have under invested !
Dazza
PS SRD your a Cynic !
Your obviously mistaken me with someone who gives a fig
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Posted 01 May 2012 - 01:34 PM
Drought very much in evidence on a rail journey back from York this morning. Most of the rivers had burst their banks and plenty of other fields looked waterlogged.
opposed to taking terrapins.
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Posted 01 May 2012 - 02:27 PM
We had a water meter fitted about a year ago. I had it fitted behind a plasterboard panel in the bathroom and was assured that "they would never have to remove the panel because these new meters could be read from inside the van in street" Ha Ha So the first time they rolled up and pointed the reader at it no response.
The guy came into the house and still no reading, so removed the panel meter not working. They came back and replaced the meter and gave me £50 credit. The second meter didn't work either, another £50. At this point the panel was removed on a permanent basis and 2 meters later they finally found one that worked.
So i had free water for about 6 months. Then I got my first bill. I am now paying £6 a month for a year because of all the credits I managed to build up. Gotta love Thames Water.
The guy came into the house and still no reading, so removed the panel meter not working. They came back and replaced the meter and gave me £50 credit. The second meter didn't work either, another £50. At this point the panel was removed on a permanent basis and 2 meters later they finally found one that worked.
So i had free water for about 6 months. Then I got my first bill. I am now paying £6 a month for a year because of all the credits I managed to build up. Gotta love Thames Water.
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Posted 01 May 2012 - 02:37 PM
Drought very much in evidence on a rail journey back from York this morning. Most of the rivers had burst their banks and plenty of other fields looked waterlogged.
Down here Thames Water would call that a mirage.
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Posted 01 May 2012 - 02:48 PM
We had a water meter fitted about a year ago. I had it fitted behind a plasterboard panel in the bathroom and was assured that "they would never have to remove the panel because these new meters could be read from inside the van in street" Ha Ha So the first time they rolled up and pointed the reader at it no response.
The guy came into the house and still no reading, so removed the panel meter not working. They came back and replaced the meter and gave me £50 credit. The second meter didn't work either, another £50. At this point the panel was removed on a permanent basis and 2 meters later they finally found one that worked.
So i had free water for about 6 months. Then I got my first bill. I am now paying £6 a month for a year because of all the credits I managed to build up. Gotta love Thames Water.
Ha ha ha, brilliant. The reason the guy who came couldn't fit a water meter is because for health and safety reasons he wasn't allowed into our loft...
Equally weird.But I must say even 106 quid for a year sounds like a good deal compare to our 450!!!
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Posted 01 May 2012 - 03:03 PM
Brilliant stories! And yes, water meters well worth it if you're in a smaller household.
And back to the drought, after one of the wettest Aprils ever recorded, here is the Met Office's outlook from 23rd March 2012:
"The forecast for average UK rainfall slightly favours drier-than-average conditions for April-May-June as a whole, and also slightly favours April being the driest of the 3 months.
With this forecast, the water resources situation in southern, eastern and central England is likely to deteriorate further during the April-May-June period."
http://www.metoffice...-precip-AMJ.pdf
Definitely up there with Michael Fish's hurricane.
And back to the drought, after one of the wettest Aprils ever recorded, here is the Met Office's outlook from 23rd March 2012:
"The forecast for average UK rainfall slightly favours drier-than-average conditions for April-May-June as a whole, and also slightly favours April being the driest of the 3 months.
With this forecast, the water resources situation in southern, eastern and central England is likely to deteriorate further during the April-May-June period."
http://www.metoffice...-precip-AMJ.pdf
Definitely up there with Michael Fish's hurricane.
Edited by andreas, 01 May 2012 - 03:06 PM.
opposed to taking terrapins.
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Posted 01 May 2012 - 03:47 PM
Huge tree upended into the lake in CP Park, near the Thicket Road bridge entrance I noticed this morning. Riverbank eroded due to rain, perhaps? 
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Posted 01 May 2012 - 05:59 PM
I wonder how many of the water companies based their hosepipe bans on that misinformation?Brilliant stories! And yes, water meters well worth it if you're in a smaller household.
And back to the drought, after one of the wettest Aprils ever recorded, here is the Met Office's outlook from 23rd March 2012:
"The forecast for average UK rainfall slightly favours drier-than-average conditions for April-May-June as a whole, and also slightly favours April being the driest of the 3 months.
With this forecast, the water resources situation in southern, eastern and central England is likely to deteriorate further during the April-May-June period."
http://www.metoffice...-precip-AMJ.pdf
Definitely up there with Michael Fish's hurricane.
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