Hosepipe Bans

[SueEllen]

It still won't be another rain to stop a drought - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62508521

It needs to rain daily from next week until end of spring next year.

[xoggoth]

Very inconvenient, I have a lot of garden rubbish to burn

Ditto. I don't think it's a good idea to have a bonfire whene everyone's got their windows open anyway.

[BlasterBates]

It still won't be another rain to stop a drought - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62508521

It needs to rain daily from next week until end of spring next year.

Really? London reservoirs are between 75% and 90% full, so I suspect that it only needs to rain normally for a few months to fill up again.

https://www.thameswater.co.uk/about-...infall-figures

[TestMangler]

It still won't be another rain to stop a drought - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62508521

It needs to rain daily from next week until end of spring next year.

Maybe try giving Geldof or wee Midge a call ? They might put on a concert to help out.

[vetran]

Maybe try giving Geldof or wee Midge a call ? They might put on a concert to help out.

If they wanted to help they would pay some fecking tax!

[SueEllen]

Really? London reservoirs are between 75% and 90% full, so I suspect that it only needs to rain normally for a few months to fill up again.

https://www.thameswater.co.uk/about-...infall-figures

You must off missed the decades old jokes about Londoners drinking the Thames.

Lots of rain is needed to ensure the ground, rivers and streams have enough water. Thames Water extracts water from rivers and aquifers to fill up their reservoirs. All these plus the reservoirs are below normal levels for this time of year.

[BlasterBates]

You must off missed the decades old jokes about Londoners drinking the Thames.

Lots of rain is needed to ensure the ground, rivers and streams have enough water. Thames Water extracts water from rivers and aquifers to fill up their reservoirs. All these plus the reservoirs are below normal levels for this time of year.

The Thames doesn't look particularly bad:

https://riverlevels.uk/thames-reading#.Yvdu2WFBw5k

The usual range of the River Thames at Reading is between 6.58m and 7.00m. It has been between these levels for 90% of the time since monitoring began.

The typical recent level of the River Thames at Reading over the past 12 months has been between 6.63m and 6.79m. It has been between these levels for at least 151 days in the past year.


Current River Level: 6.61m, steady

Admittedly a few bits of the Thames are low.

[ladymuck]

Admittedly a few bits of the Thames are low.

Yep
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...during-drought

[SueEllen]

The Thames doesn't look particularly bad:

https://riverlevels.uk/thames-reading#.Yvdu2WFBw5k



Admittedly a few bits of the Thames are low.

Like the bits drinking water is extracted from....

[SueEllen]

And now we have a ban from Thames Water from 24 August.

Typical they wait until after it rains.....